MANILA, Philippines — Tondo, considered Manila’s largest district in terms of area and population, will have its first university, a lawmaker from the city said on Wednesday.
The P400-million university will have its groundbreaking this Thursday.
“This Universidad de Manila campus in Tondo is a milestone for Congress, and the City of Manila because it is the first university campus in Tondo,” Manila 2nd District Rep. Rolando Valeriano, chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Metro Manila Development, said on Wednesday.
“This is the fruit of close collaboration for the benefit of residents of Tondo and surrounding localities. Manila provided the public land upon which the 10-storey college building shall be built. Upon our initiative, Congress provided the P400-million funding in the 2024 national budget. For the labor component, I again remind the DPWH and contractor to source most of the construction workers from here in Tondo,” Valeriano said.
DPWH stands for the Department of Public Works and Highways.
“With Tondo residents providing the labor, this education infrastructure project will have highly motivated workers who care about the safety and future of their children, siblings, friends, neighbors, and future generations of Manilenos. Their wages and benefits will be the bonus for their days of honest and skilled work,” Valeriano said.
According to a statement, the college building will have 10 floors, 48 classrooms, 15 multifunction rooms, and a gymnasium.
The aim is to complete the college building in the last quarter of 2026, according to the statement.
Research shows that as of 2020, Tondo has a population of 654,220 and has two congressional districts. A large part of its population is impoverished.
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