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Vol 2 Issue 12 Published by: PIA 6, 7 & 8 March 1925,
2012
WESTERNVISAYAS
By Venus G. Villanueva
K ALIBO, Aklan, March 19 (PIA6) -- More international airlines
are coming to Kalibo International Airport. On March 23, 2012, Cebu
Pacific will launch the
Hongkong to Kalibo route, according to Aklan governor Carlito S.
Marquez.
Marquez announced over radio that initially there will be 3
flights a week.
Marquez said that Air Asia is also considering offering flights
to Kalibo via Subic either from Taiwan or Hongkong.
These new direct international flights are seen by provincial
officials here to bring in more tourists to Aklan particularly to
Boracay Island this year. Recently, Governor Marquez aired optimism
that tourist arrivals this year could already reach the 1 million
mark or more.
During past interviews, the province projected that the 1
million arrivals would be achieved in 2013 yet.
From January to February of this year alone, the governor
revealed that tourists, foreign and local, reached a total of
205,804, which is 50 percent higher than last year which had
137,137 arrivals.
These tourist arrivals, as reported by the governor, generated
P24.2 million in collections 19.6 percent higher than last years
collection for the same period which had P20,234,133.43.
Presently, KIA is receiving international flights from mainland
China, Taiwan and South Korea. (JCM/VGV PIA 6 Aklan)
In this IssueIn this IssueIn this Issue
T ACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 17 (PIA) -- The surge of nursing
graduates amid declining demand for them here and abroad led the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to come up a project
dubbed EntrepreNurse project.
EntrepreNurse is an initiative of DOLE, in collaboration with
Professional Regulations Commission Board of Nursing, Philippine
Nurses Association, and other government agencies and academic
institutions to promote nurse entrepreneurship by introducing a
home health care industry in the country, DOLE region director
Director Sarcauga said.
Sarcauga introduced the EntrepreNurse project of DOLE to
graduating nursing students of Doa Remedios Trinidad Romualdez
Medical Foundation, during a symposium organized by the College of
Nursing on March 15, 2012 at the RTRMF Campus, Tacloban City.
Dubbed as Project EntrepreNurse: Saving Lives, Creating Jobs,
Adding Value, the project will bring self-employment opportunities
for the countrys
unemployed nurses who will engage themselves in the delivery of
public health services and the achievement of the countrys
millennium development goal on maternal and child health.
Through this scheme, the DOLE will assist nurses organize
themselves either as cooperatives or associations and register
themselves with appropriate government agencies. Thereafter, DOLE
can provide financial grants as start-up capital to said group.
Sarcauga said that that project is envisioned to reduce the cost
of health care for the countrys indigent population by bringing
primary health care services to poor rural communities.
Meanwhile, Virgilio Doroja, DOLEs information officer designate
said that utilizing the countrys unemployed human resources for
health for the delivery of public health services, would help bring
about the achievement of the countrys Millennium Development Goals
on maternal and child health, consistent with the Fourmula One for
Health framework of the Department of Health. (PIA-8)
By Hazel F. Gloria
C EBU CITY, March 19 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and
Natural Resources (DENR-7) in Central Visayas will soon adopt a
computerized land records management system to improve its land
information and services in the region.
Last year, DENR-7 adopted the land administration and management
system (LAMS), said regional executive director Maximo Dichoso.
This was aimed at providing a uniform system in the computerization
and linking of land information pertaining to cadastral maps,
approved land survey, public land applications, and titles.
It also identifies correction of missing, erroneous and
conflicting land records; and provides an effective management
through database and imaging technology by computerized inspection,
verification and approval of survey returns, Dichoso added.
The establishment of an integrated land information system will
support effective land titling activities, and any future
collaboration with other sectors of DENR and other agencies and
the
dissemination of electronic land information to local government
units and other users.
Dichoso stated that DENR Secretary Ramon JP Paje stressed the
importance of managing land information for accurate and complete
access by stakeholders including government, private, and public
sectors.
More than 100 units of computers and scanners are due for
delivery this week for distribution to the 12 field offices of DENR
for this project.
We want to ensure the integrity of land information through
continuous effort of cleansing the land records of inconsistencies,
duplication, errors and fraud, he said.
He also articulated that this will improve the reliability of
records and will add further value to the efficiency obtained
through computer assisted land records.
For 2012, about P3.862 million was allocated for the
computerization of some 512,577 lands-related documents under the
land records management system in Central Visayas. (mbcn/hfg/PIA-7
& DENR-7)
DENR adopts electronic records management system
DOLE introduces EntrepreNurse to graduating nursing students
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Kalibo airport readies for additional international flights
Korean Ambassador Lee Hye Min (right); Iloilo Governor Arthur
Defensor and Pototan Mayor Pablo S. Perez inspect the pack of new
milled rice which was the product of the state-of-the-art Korea
International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Rice Processing Complex in
Barangay Amamaros, Pototan, Iloilo during the turn-over ceremony,
recently. (TVillavert/PIA)
EASTERNVISAYAS
CENTRALVISAYAS
DSWD undersecretary Mateo Montao (left) signs the Memorandum of
Agreement with Catarman, Northern Samar mayor Rolando Carpio
(right) during the ceremonial signing at Oriental Leyte Hotel,
Palo, Leyte. (PIA-8/Vino R. Cuayzon)
COASTAL CLEANUP.The Savers of Cebu, together with the Philippine
Coastguard Central-Eastern Visayas Officials from Barangay Suba and
Pasil, joined forces to conduct a massive coastal cleanup drive
last March 4, 2012. The activity was spearheaded by the Abante
Barangay Movement headed by former Department of Transportastion
and Communications (DOCT) Undersecretary Aristotle Batuhan. The
goal of the activity is to uplift the level of awareness of those
living in urban coastal areas of the impact of climate change and
the importance of looking after the environment.(PIA-7/HFG)
Photo by: BOY RYAN ZABAL/Aklanforum.blogspot.com
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Iloilo holds women's forum By Lilibeth A. French
ILOILO CITY, March 19 (PIA6) -- More than 200 women from the
different municipalities of the province of Iloilo met and took
part in a Provincial Womens Forum that was conducted at the Iloilo
Provincial Capitol lobby on March 20.
P rov inc ia l Capi to l Human Resource Management and D e v e l
o p m e n t O f f i c e Officer-in-Charge Alma Ravena said the
event centered on the theme of this years National Womens Month
celebration Women Weathering Climate Change: Governance and
Accountabi l ity, Everyones Responsibility.
Among the resource speakers were Philippine Commission on Women
Chaiperson Remedios Rikken and
representatives from the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources 6 and Office of Civil Defense 6.
They talked on Womens Empower-ment, climate change and disaster
prepar-edness, respectively.
Representatives from the Kalipunan ng Liping Pilipina and other
sectors in the province were invited to the forum Organized by the
Department of Social Welfare and Development, KALIPI intends to
assist women through various activities
and programs to further harness their potentials and
abilities.
To date, there are now 26 municipalities in the province that
have organized their KALIPI based on the record of the Provincial
Social Welfare and Development Office.
The one-day forum was organized by the Iloilo provincial
government and spearheaded by the PSWDO. (JCM/LAF/PIA6)
BACOLOD CITY CATHEDRAL, NEGROS OCC.
ILOILO CITY, March 21 (PIA6) -- Parents of child laborers in the
town of San Enrique received more than P397,000 from the Department
of Labor and Employment-6 (DOLE) for livelihood projects.
D OLE-6 Director Ponciano M. Ligutom said about 52 parents from
Barangays Mapili and Dumiles, in San Enrique will benefit from the
assistance which is DOLEs initiative to help eliminate child
labor.
DOLE-Iloilo/Guimaras Field Office has joined hands with the
Iloilo State College of Fisheries-San Enrique Campus and the
Educational Research and Development Assistance (ERDA) Foundation
in the campaign to curb child labor.
ERDA has chosen the two above-mentioned barangays because of the
high incidence of child labor in the communities.
Ligutom said in a press release, the assistance given is
intended to help the parents undertake livelihood projects such as
organic fertilizer production and food processing, to increase
their income, hence, remove their children from hazardous work in
sugarcane plantations.
He said ISCOF-San Enrique is DOLEs accredited partner that will
see to it that technical knowledge and skills are provided the
beneficiaries and projects are implemented, through its extension
program.
ISCOF President Dr. Ma. Rosario Panes said she assured the DOLE
of her
full support and commitment in providing the right knowledge and
skills to the beneficiaries.
Meanwhile, Jenalyn Patubo, a parent-beneficiary, said DOLEs
assistance is a challenge for them to send their children back to
school and finish their studies.
DOLE said that child laborers in the sugar industry proliferate
because parents have no work, so they force their children to work
in sugarcane plantations, doing weeding, planting, application of
fertilizers and cut and load during planting and harvesting of the
canes. (JCM/ESS/PIA-Iloilo)
DOLE gives aid to parents of child laborers
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, March 20 (PIA 6) - - Duaw sa Tingadlaw
(summer visit), a tourism package for summer vacation, is being
launched by the Silay Tourism Office for tourists who may want to
have their sojourn in the "seat of arts, culture and ecotourism in
Western Visayas.
V er Pacete, tourism officer of Silay, said that there are many
activities in Silay City that could be enjoyed by
environmentalists, culture enthusiasts, pilgrims, food aficionados,
organic farm producers, and nature lovers.
Cultural heritage includes museum and ancestral house tour, food
trip, folklore village exploration and organized groups may invite
Silaynon speakers to give lecture on arts, culture, history,
protocol and social grace.
Silay Tourism Office and IKAW-AKO J ap an -Neg ro s P a r t ne r
sh i p f o r Environmental Protection also have packages for
mangrove tour, Patag tour, watershed showcase, and outdoor
camps.
Silay Outdoor Recreation and Ecotourism Area in Patag is hosting
this summer the Carmelite Monasterys Youth National Summer Camp,
Word of Life Summer Youth Camp and Evangelical Church Summer
Camp.
Farm tour could be arranged for visits to the orchard, organic
vegetables and herb farm, fishpond and hacienda tour, which include
carabao-caro ride, local games, and familiarization with domestic
animals.
The Association of Silay Delicacy Makers is offering a daily
delicacy trade at the side of public market or an arrangement for
kitchen hopping could be made for the tasting of family
recipes. Local attractions are complemented
by vagoneta ride, a visit at local Girl Scout community
projects, viewing of products prepared by the sisters at Talleres
de Nazareth, immersion program at Fiat Gawad-Kalinga Village or
stargazing at the foot of Mandalagan Mountain Ranges.
A long trek to Tinagong Dagat and sulfur valleys could be
arranged with local trekkers and mountain guides and those who want
to reflect for the Lenten Season could just coordinate with San
Diego Parish. (EAD/JCM-PIA 6 Silay Negros Occidental)
By Elsa S. Subong
Silay City offers summer tourism packages By Easter Anne D.
Doza
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MIAG-AO CHURCH, ILOILO
Center for youth, migrants opens in Antique
SAN JOSE, Antique, March 21 (PIA6) -- The Province of Antique
has launched the Youth and Migrant Center (AYMC) at the 3rd Floor
of Antique Development Center in San Jose to cater to concerns of
the youth, overseas Filipinos and their families and the Antiquenos
in general.
By Pilar S. Mabaquiao
ROXAS CITY, Capiz, March 20 (PIA6) -- Implementing the enhanced
K to 12 basic education program will put the countrys education
system on equal footing with those of other Asian nations.
A lliance of Volunteer Educators (AVE) Party-list Representative
Eulogio Amang R. Magsaysay, who was the guest of honor during the
Philippines-Korean Cultural Exchange held at the Capiz State
University (CapSU) last week, disclosed that the K to 12 is a good
program in education.
I think K to 12 is a good program because were behind compared
to our neighboring nations in Asia in terms of number of school
years for children, Magsaysay said in Filipino, stressing that
other countries have 12 years elementary basic education program
while there is only 10 years in the Philippines.
He added that with the enhanced basic education program, the
Philippines will now have an equal footing with other
countries.
Magsaysay said that while most of kindergarten teachers are
hired on a contractual basis during the initial stage of
the K to 12 program implementation, he revealed that there is
already a move in the Congress to address the problem in order to
give a permanent position for the teachers concerned.
The K to 12 program implemented by the Department of Education
means Kindergarten and the 12 years of elementary and secondary
education, where a child must be enrolled in kindergarten, six
years elementary education, four years of junior high school and
two years of senior high school.
The two years of senior high school intend to provide time for
students to consolidate the acquired academic skills and
competencies.
Through the K to 12 program, it is hoped that graduates of the
enhanced education program will acquire mastery of basic
competencies, be more emotionally
mature, be socially aware, pro-active, involved in public and
civic affairs, be adequately prepared for the world of work or
entrepreneurship or higher education, be legally employable with
potential for better earnings and be globally competitive.
Every graduate of the enhanced K to 12 Basic Education Program
is expected to be an empowered individual who has learned, through
a program that is rooted on sound educational principles and geared
towards excellence, the foundations for learning throughout life,
the competence to engage in work and be productive, the ability to
coexist in fruitful harmony with local and global communities, the
capability to engage in autonomous critical thinking, and the
capacity to transform others and ones self, the Department of
Education officials said. (JCM/JBG-PIA6 Capiz)
K to 12 puts PHL at par with other nations By Jemin B.
Guillermo
W orkers will be trained at Okinawa Prefecture for three years
and will also be paid while on training, said Michiyasu Arayashiki,
managing director of the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and
Cultural Advancement (OISCA)- International.
Arayashiki was in the province recently and made this remark
during a courtesy call on Negros Occidental
Governor Alfredo G. Maraon, Jr. at the Capitol.
O ISCA In te rna t iona l i s a mu l t i - cu l tu r a l sp i r
i t - i n - ac t i on i n t e r n a t i o n a l n o n - g o v e r n
m e n t organization based in Japan and founded in 1961 which seeks
to impact all corners of the world through advocacy, building on
its effective field work at grassroots levels.
The organization needs workers who
have completed their secondary education and at the same time
have experience in farming.
Maraon, who is also president of OISCA Philippines, welcomed
Arayashiki in the province and thanked h im for br ing ing
employment opportunities for Negrenses to improve their quality of
life. (EAD/JCM-PIA6/Capitol News Negros Occidental)
Int'l NGO offers training on farm technology By Easter Anne D.
Doza BACOLOD CITY, March 21 (PIA6) -- An international
non-government organization is in need of workers to train on
technology farming in Japan.
A ccording to Ricardo Casco, National Program Officer of
International Organization on Migration, the objective of putting
up AYMC is primarily not only to promote migration overseas but
importantly to help OFWs become better prepared if they opt to work
overseas and attain stability in case they make a decision of
returning home for good.
In a memorandum of understanding duly signed by participating
government agencies, private organizations and the Provincial
Government of Antique, they collectively manifest to share
resources and personnel to make the facility functional.
AYMC hopes to implement programs to address problems on
unemployment/underemployment, forced internal and external
migration and the growing social
cost or consequences of migration. Casco further stated that the
center
endeavors to create opportunities to empower the youth, migrants
and their families and to address their issues and concerns.
Vice Governor Rosie A. Dimamay assured that the Provincial
Government will ensure continuous operation of the center. In fact,
she said the ordinance to that effect is already on its second
reading at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan.
On the other hand, Juliana Cepe, Provincial Planning and
Development Coordinator who is the overseer of the operation of the
center reported that agencies like the Overseas Workers Welfare
Administration and Philippine Overseas Employment Administration
will send
personnel to AYMC on a scheduled basis so that Antiquenos need
not go to Iloilo to avail of their services.
The Public Employment Service Office (PESO) will also assist in
the frontline work at the center by doing programs on job matching,
pre-employment orientation seminars and anti-illegal recruitment
campaign.
AYMC is housed in the building owned by the Provincial
Government while the renovation, furnishings and facilities of the
center are provided by the IOM under the Youth Employment and
Migration Programme funded by the Span i sh Government . (
JCM/PSM/PIA6Antique)
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T he activity, a prelude to the Earth Hour 2012 Global Campaign,
aims to raise public awareness to combat climate change through
energy efficiency, renewable energy and climate adaptation.
Officials from the Department of Energy (DOE) 7 and the World
Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines were the resource speakers
for the activity at the social hall of the Metro Cebu Water
District (MCWD).
The topics discussed included Climate Change: Mitigation and
Adaptation, Earth House 2012, Household Enercon Tips,
and Know Your Electric Bill and How to Read Your Electric
Meter.
The activity was undertaken by the Philippine Information Agency
7 in partnership with the DOE and the WWF-Philippines.
Cebu, meanwhile, is one of the three identified sites for the
simultaneous WWF Earth Hour switch-off ceremonies on March 31.
The Cebu ceremony will be held at the Fort San Pedro where a
short program will be held prior to the conduct of the actual
one-hour switch-off.
Earth Hour 2012 is a worldwide
campaign that calls for action in the continuing battle against
global warming by switching off lights for one hour from 8:30 p.m.
to 9:30 p.m. on March 31.
The Earth Hour campaign initiated by the WWF started six years
ago in 2007 in Sydney, Australia. The Philippines joined the global
drive the year after and has been implementing the one-hour
switch-off ever since.
Last year, around 18 million Filipinos switched off their lights
in support of the campaign while over one billion joined the drive
worldwide. (FCR-PIA7 Cebu)
BASILICA MINORE DEL STO. NIO DE CEBUBASILICA MINORE DEL STO. NIO
DE CEBUBASILICA MINORE DEL STO. NIO DE CEBU
By Fayette C. Rinen
CEBU CITY, March 20 (PIA) -- Around 300 participants with
multi-sectoral representation from the academe, households,
non-government organizations, local government units, and business
and industry gathered in Cebu City, March 23 for a half-day seminar
on Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program.
Cebu enercon seminar raises awareness vs. climate change
BOHOL, March 19 (PIA) Bohol crime reporting system will go
electronic in April, says Bohol Police chief PSSupt. Constantino
Barot.
Bohol crime reporting system goes electronic in April By Rey
Anthony H. Chiu
A t the Talakayan sa Isyung Pulis (TSIP) on March 14 in Jagna
town, PSSUpt Barot said the e-Blotter System is a priority program
of PNP Chief Director General Nicanor A. Bartolome.
The system is designed to enhance the crime reporting system for
effective law enforcement, public safety and efficient
administration of justice using modern technology such as computers
and the Internet.
Barot added that the daily logs in the station are encoded for
easy transmission and sharing, in the hope that these blotter
entries can be checked by authorities in
nearby towns, before the criminal could slip out.
The system links all police stations in the province through
internet connectivity and uses a common program that allows
inter-station access to relevant information in real time.
Also at the recent Provincial Peace and Order Council meeting,
Barot revealed the plan not only to put up the e-blotter but also
ewarrants and e-rogues.
Similarly the police will also set up e-rogues, an
internet-based online electronic gallery of suspected persons,
for easy reference by criminal investigators.
Set in a Bohol milieu, the e-blotter, warrants and rogues
gallery could have technical problems in areas where internet
connectivity is slow or nil.
Barot said Governor Edgar Chatto has committed the help of Bohol
Info-Communications Technology Unit based at the Capitol to work
out the details of assuring province-wide connectivity through
wireless network coverage. (mbcn/rahc/PIA-Bohol)
I n an interview with the Philippine Information Agency (PIA)
here, provincial science and technology (PSTC) director Mario de la
Pena said the move is in line with DOST's continuing support to the
SETUP beneficiaries to make sure that the metals and engineering
sector are assisted.
The upgrading of equipment and machineries for GL Motors will be
for the acquisition of sandblasting machine, plasma
cutting machine, lathe machine and TIG welding machine.
The DOST assistance for the upgrading of their metal working
capability is seen to benefit not only the metals industry in the
province but as well as the transport industry, particularly sea
transport.
GL Shipping will push through with its plan of
fabricating/assembling RORO type vessels to cater to cargo trucks
for
Dumaguete-Siquijor and Oslob-Siquijor routes and the acquisition
of newly refurbished fast craft to augment its existing vessels
plying Siquijor-Dumaguete and vice versa.
This development would mean expanded market for GL Motors and
Industries, de la Pena said. (rmn/rac/PIA-Siquijor/MEP/DOST)
SIQUIJOR, March 19 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and
Technology (DOST) through its Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading
Program (SETUP), recently released P 1,423,600 to GL Motors and
Industries owned and operated by Gerry Sumagang in Siquijor.
DOST turns over P1.4-M check to Siquijor SME By Rizalie A.
Calibo
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SIQUIJOR, March 21 (PIA)Siquijor farmers are the most productive
in Central Visayas, claimed provincial governor Orlando A. Fua Jr.
in his State of the Province Address (SOPA) recently.
C iting government statistics, Fua said that while Siquijor has
only 619 hectares of rice farm compared to Bohols 185,000 hectares
and Negros Orientals 145,000 hectares, the province is harvesting
73 cavans per hectare compared to 61 cavans in Bohol and 57 cavans
in Negros Oriental.
He said Siquijor rice farmers harvested 38,860 cavans of rice in
2009, 40,800 in 2010, and 45, 340 in 2011 so that despite the
increase in population at an annual growth rate of 1%, commercial
rice imports steadily decreased by an average of 13,737 cavans in
the past three years.
Tungod ni kay nag-anam kadaghan ang ani sa atong mga rice
farmers by an
averge of 7.5 per cent per year or 3,240 ka bakid kada tuig,
said Fua. (This is because rice yield steadily increases by an
average of 7.5 per cent or 3,240 cavans per year.)
As such, Fua said the province has become more self-sufficient
in food production, as evidenced by the lowered level of rice
importation.
From 73,044 cavans imported by commercial rice traders in 2009,
it lowered to 60,082 in 2010, and further to 45,570 cavans in
2011.
From 48, 245 cavans of rice imported in 2009 and 84,915 in 2010,
the National Food Authority has imported only 36,770 in 2011, the
Governor noted.
Areas planted to rice also increases
by 6% every year. This means that 19 hectares is added to the
acreage that Siquijor farmers till. If the trend continues, it is
not possible that 20 years from now, Siquijor will become fully
self-sufficient in food production, he said.
Our farmers are helping map the country for us, he said, also
attributing the provinces higher production to outstanding
Siquijodnon farmers like, among others, Elnard Ympal of Candura,
San Juan, Siquijor as the countrys most outstanding farmer for
2010, and Martina Inapan, also from the same town as third in the
last years nationwide search for outstanding rural women farmer.
(/mbcn/rac/PIA-Siquijor)
Siquijor rice farmers most productive in CV Gov. Fua By Rizalie
A. Calibo
T he plastic ordinance was enacted to regulate and reduce the
use of plastic in Dumaguete City, which has been blamed for
aggravating floods during the recent typhoons that hit the
city.
The ordinance bans vendors from providing shoppers with a second
plastic bag as secondary packaging material for wet goods. For
purchased dry goods, customers will not be given a plastic bag
as packaging at all, but are instead expected to bring their own
bag when they shop.
Overused and worn out plastic bags will be shredded and
converted into usable plastic items, said Ablong.
Residents will have to bring their plastic items to their
barangays material recovery facility, where the plastic will be
segregated for shredding.
The shredder works by pulverizing
plastic materials. The resulting powder can then be converted
into other plastic items, floorwax, tiles and other construction
materials, said Ablong.
Paper and carton can also be fed into the shredder. The powdered
form can be converted into charcoal and provide us with an
alternative source to firewood and gas, he added. (RMN/PIA Negros
Oriental)
DUMAGUETE CITY, March 19 (PIA) The city government will strictly
enforce the plastic ordinance in August, even as it has already
started the bidding process for the procurement of plastic
shredder, said City Administrator William Ablong in a recent forum
here.
Dumaguete eyes buying plastic shredder by Rachelle M. Nessia
GK challenges volunteers to build 120 houses for Sendong victims
in NegOr in 5 days By Jennifer C. Tilos DUMAGUETE CITY, March 19
(PIA) -- Some 120 houses are expected to be built during the Gawad
Kalinga (GK) Bayani Challenge from April 9-14 in Amlan, Negros
Oriental.
G K Bayani Challenge event head Roslyn Tambago said priority
beneficiaries of the GK houses are
victims of Tropical Storm Sendong victims in barangay
Tambuhangin and other riverside barangays in Amlan.
The organizer expects 2,000 volunteers from the locals and other
areas overseas such as USA, Australia, Singapore, and Cambodia to
register with the program.
The GK Bayani Challenge is a five-day test of courage, endurance
and love for country that Gawad Kalinga has staged annually since
2006.
Teams of 15 people go on an adventure to plant hope on ground by
building sustainable communities, fostering friendships, and
transforming lives that are critical to nation building, said
Tambago.
Anchored on the theme Pilipinas, Ngayon Na!, this years GK
Bayani Challenge is expected to gather about 10,000 volunteers from
various parts of the country and the world for the provinces of
Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Masbate, Mindoro Occidental and Negros
Oriental.
The activity will not only focus on building houses, but also on
preserving the
environment through coastal cleanup, and mangrove and tree
planting.
During this weeklong challenge in building houses for flood
victims, simultaneous activities will be held that include feeding
program, story-telling sessions, games, and sports clinic for
children aged six to ten years old in the area.
The public schools in the area will also be refurbished; some
volunteers will paint walls, landscaped gardens, and repair tables
and chairs to make schools conducive to learning, Tambago said.
(mbcn/JCT/PIA-Negros Oriental)
BACLAYON CHURCH, BOHOL
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DPWH allocates P750-M for 7 major infra projects in East Visayas
PALO, Leyte, March 18 (PIA) -- The national government has allotted
P750 million to finance seven major infrastructure projects which
are scheduled to be implemented in Eastern Visayas starting this
month.
VP Binay graces 49th ESSU Commencement Exercises
B inay spoke in the 49th ESSU Commencement Exercises where he
expressed elation at being able to join graduation exercises not
only at ESSU but also at the Leyte Eastern Visayas State University
in Burauen, a day before his Eastern Samar visit.
In his talk, he asked the 713 graduates to have the passion to
serve the people
because according to him, there is no greater joy than to serve
the country and people.
Vice President Binay was bestowed with the Honorary Degree for
Good Governance by University President Reynaldo Lombrio with the
other college deans.
He is also scheduled to lead Medical
Missions in five towns of the province: Hernani, Guiuan,
Borongan, San Julian and Can-avid.
Binay surprised the Eastern Samarenos when he leaped to the top
among other vice-presidential bets, during the 2010 national
elections. Can-avid town is Makatis sister-local government unit.
(PIA-Eastern Samar)
BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, March 20 (PIA) - - The heavy rains
did not deter Vice President Jejomar Binay from reporting to his
pre-scheduled engagements in Eastern Samar Tuesday, March 20. From
San Julian town he hurried to the campus of the Eastern Samar State
University (ESSU) where he was welcomed by thousands of students,
parents and professors and local officials.
STO. NIO CHURCH, TACLOBAN
CSC to spearhead Womens Desk on Wheels
CATARMAN, Northern Samar, March 20 (PIA) -- The Civil Service
Commission (CSC) Northern Samar Field Office, in partnership with
the provincial government, Junior Chamber International Philippines
and other line agencies will lead Womens Desk on Wheel, an activity
which will provide services particularly for women in observance of
Womens Month.
D epartment of Public Works and Highways Region 8 Director
Rolando Asis said that the amount is part of the additional P1.9
billion allocation intended for 2011 but was not released last
year.
The DPWH in the Region had completed the survey of all the seven
projects. In fact, several of them were already bid out on the
first week of March, Director Asis said. Based on contract time,
the projects will be completed in August of 2012, Director Asis
added.
Director Asis identified the seven major projects as the San
Isidro Lope de Vega Road construction, which got the highest budget
allocation with P247.26 m i l l i o n ; t h e P 1 3 0 . 9 5 - m i l
l i o n
Palapag-Mapanas-Gamay-Lapinig Road; P75 million upgrading of
inter-barangay road in Catarman, Northern Samar; and P87.3 million
extension of flood control system also in Catarman town; P130.85
million reconstruction of Carigara Bridge; P99 million
rehabilitation of road connecting some villages in the towns of
Matag-ob and Palompon, both in Leyte.
Director Asis said these projects are considered priority by the
DPWH since these are categorized as carry-over projects.These
projects particularly in Northern Samar will benefit many barangays
that have no access to road networks, Asis added.
The DPWH monitoring reports revealed that out of the 4,996
projects
programmed from 2008 to 2011 with a total cost of P24.30
billion, about 4,748 have been completed, 214 are ongoing, and 34
projects have yet to start.
Of the 248 carry-over projects, two were programmed in 2008, one
in 2009, 182 in 2010, and 63 in 2011.
Director Asis attributed the delays to bad weather, late funding
releases last year, and realignments in 2010.
The DPWH Director further said that for 2012, the DPWH has
programmed 144 projects with a total funding of P3.78 billion
wherein 124 projects are already on-going with 6 percent overall
accomplishment as of mid - February. (EOPT-PIA 8)
T his years theme centers on, Womens Weathering Climate Change:
Governance and Accountability, Everyones Responsibility thereby
recognizing the role of women as powerful agents of change in
relation to disaster risk reduction (DRR).
According to CSC Dir. Emmanuel Fuentes, aside from the need of
empowering women in their role relative to disaster risk reduction,
there is also a need to inform women in government about their
rights and privileges as stipulated in the Magna Carta of Women,
and about the special emergency leave of
government employees affected by natural calamities and or
disasters which took effect on February 2012.
The team on wheels will put up a womens desk, will offer
services, and conduct activities such as orientation on VAWC, Magna
Carta of Women, and Special emergency leave to government
employees. Social Welfare Officer and lawyers will entertain women
clients who need assistance. Simultaneously, a medical and dental
mission will also be conducted.
Following the national theme, Fuentes said, the celebration will
focus on curbing
the negative impacts of climate change and instituting measures
at the local level in order to reduce disaster risk and build a
resilient communities, thus, inviting women in particular to join
in the tsunami, earthquake and fire drill during the said
activity.
The activity will be a collaborative effort of the following
agencies and organizations: provincial government of Northern
Samar, CSC, JCI Catarman Cocoking, DILG, BFP, DepEd, PDRRMC, PIA,
PNP, and host LGU. (PIA-Northern Samar)
By Alice Nicart
By Ailene N. Diaz
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German group pours P12-M to boost food security in Leyte
Women occupy more top positions in Southern Leyte NSO
SoLeyte
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 20 (PIA) -- Seven out of 10
women in Southern Leyte are professionals and occupied top
positions, the National Statistics Office in Southern Leyte
revealed in a special release entitled Women in Southern Leyte.
CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 20 (PIA) - - The Health
Departments program on Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement And
Local Service (RN HEALS) addresses the necessary number of midwives
and nurses in the Rural Health Units (RHUs) especially for the
families in the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCTs) areas.
T his was announced in a meeting on March 19, Monday attended by
the representatives from the partner agencies of Department of
Health (DOH), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Dr. Antonio Tirazona, Provincial Health team leader presided the
first meeting this 2012.
The RN HEALS Program has
deployed 224 nurses and nine midwives to different
municipalities in the province.
Tirazona said that the provincial government has deployed some
107 nurses with 12 at Basey District Hospital, 59 at the Samar
Provincial Hospital, 13 in Gandara District Hospital, five in
Tarangnan Community Hospital, and 18 in Calbayog District
Hospital.
The other 117 nurses are deployed in RHUs.
The program has created a pool
registered nurses and midwives with enhanced clinical and public
health competencies. They have provided quality health care
services with focus on maternal and neonatal care in DOH hospitals
and far flung areas in the country, Tirazona added.
Jocelyn Nabong, DOH Catbalogan City representative, said that
this program is a convergence of all government agencies.
(QBQ/PIA-Samar with A Ebalde)
RN HEALS program supplements health workers in RHUs
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, March 20 (PIA) -- The Deutsche
Geseilschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit better known as GIZ
has poured in some P12 million for projects of identified local
government units (LGUs) in Leyte Island, under the Enhancement of
Food Security (EFOS) Project in the Visayas, a component of the
Environment and Rural Development Program of GIZ.
GUIUAN CHURCH, E. SAMAR
By Rodrigo S. Victoria
By Erna S. Gorne
I n a document furnished by GIZ, GIZ though fund sources from
the European Union poured in a total of P12, 840,193 worth of EFOS
projects in the municipalities of Anahawan and Silago in Southern
Leyte, and Kananga in Leyte.
GIZ allocated with a grant from the European Union (EU) the
amount of P4.2 million in the rehabilitation of a six-kilometer
(km) poor farm-to-market road (FMR) which has not been maintained
or developed for 30 years in the municipality of Anahawan, Southern
Leyte. An amount of P0.6 million was allocated by Anahawan as
counterpart fund.
The rehabilitation of the six-km FMR will pave the way for the
increase in trading activities of agricultural products that had
been marked by the very slow and time consuming transportation of
their agricultural produce on foot or on carabao or cattle-drawn
sleds coming from barangays Capacuhan, Kangingkingan, Mainit, and
part of Poblacion in Anahawan town during the past decades.
GIZ with a grant from EU also allocated P4.4 million for the
rehabilitation of existing FMRs in six barangays in Silago town in
Southern Leyte mainly for the construction of side ditches, and
compaction and installation
of culverts in strategic locations. The rehabilitation of the
almost 20 km
FMR is an intervention in response to the continuing problems on
the road especially during heavy and prolonged rains which will
pave the way for the provision of better transport of members and
farm inputs and products in barangays Sudmon, Mercedes, Balagawan,
Tubaon, Laguma, and Salvacion, all in Silago town.
These three EFOS projects implemented by GIZ has been visited by
some Manila-based and local journalists and a representative from
the regional office of PIA 8 together with GIZ officials on March
21-22, 2012. (PIA-8)
To celebrate the 2012 National Womens Month this Special Release
provides a portrait of the situation of women in Southern Leyte
based on data collected in the 2007 Census of Popultion (2007
POPCEN) excluding the Institutional Population, Southern Leyte
Provincial Statistics Officer Mae R. Almonte said.
The 2007 Census of Population (2007 POPCEN) results show that
70.14 percent of womens usual occupation in the province were
professionals compared to men with 29.86 percent. This major
occupation group includes Engineering Science Professional,
Teaching Professionals, Health Professional and Legal Professionals
among others, Almonte said.
The census further reveals that more women (57.21 percent)
occupied the top positions in the province like Officials of
Government and Special Interest Organizations, Corporate
Executive, Managers, Managing Proprietors and Supervisors than men
(42.79 percent), she added.
Moreover, higher proportion of womens usual occupation were
Clerks and Technicians and Associate Professionals with 63.59
percent and 60.42 percent, respectively, she said.
Larger proportion of women ( 56.23 percent) were academic degree
holders than men (43.77 percent) and 54.62 percent of those who has
taken post baccalaureate courses were women while 45.38 percent
were men, she said.
She added that fewer women dependents (21 dependents) compared
to men (22 dependents) were observed in 2007. However, a higher old
age dependency was reported among women (4 old dependents) than
among men (3 old dependents) due to the
fact that women live longer than men. On the other hand, there
was a higher young age dependency among men (19 young dependents)
compared to women (17 young dependents).
With the results of the 2007 POPCEN, about 2 in 10 households
are headed by women. It is obvious that men dominate in the
household since 82.93 percent were regarded as head while only
17.01 percent were women, she said.
One in 10 women is an overseas worker, Almonte disclosed. Of the
10 years old and over household population, there were 4.6 thousand
overseas workers in the province or 1.56 percent. Three thousand
were men and 1.7 thousand were women. This indicator provides
additional strength to the stability of the economy through their
remittances invested in industries, she added. (PIA-SoLeyte)
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