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Rx for education

MORE than 28 million students trooped back to school in the country this week. This is an astounding number: four times the population of Singapore, and half the population of Malaysia.

A schoolteacher and her students pray before staring their first class for the new school year at the Pedro Guevarra Elementary School in San Nicolas, Binondo, Manila on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022. PHOTO BY MIKE ALQUINTO