Following the successful inauguration of the Ugur Suleymen Soylemez Orphanage on May 16, 2015 is the construction of 19.5 million worth of two-storey school building which took off on June 7 this year at Barangay Tamontaka 1, Cotabato City.

According to BDA executive director Mohammad S. Yacob, the 2-storey building has nine classrooms, one conference room, one computer room and a library room.

This school building is intended to exclusively cater the orphans of the said orphanage and set to operate by next year upon the target completion in December this 2015.

“The orphanage provides free education for the in-house orphans enrolled at the nearby elementary school at present and hopefully this school building being constructed will cater the children,” Yacob said.

The construction of this school building is supported by Insani Hardim Vakfi (IHH), a humanitarian foundation based in Turkey.

BDA and IHH partnership began in 2014 thru several humanitarian programs already such as the Qurbani program, relief assistance to displaced families and the orphanage center.