BETTER ROAD FOR A BETTER LIFE
Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:45 | 
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Imagine having to swim across a raging river to get to a woman in labor. It may sound like a scene from a daytime drama, but it isn’t. Such is the life of midwives serving Barangay Babalaya in Bacolod, Lanao del Norte before KALAHI-CIDSS.
“Pirting lisora” (Very difficult) is how Brgy. Captain Juanito Mensidor describes the condition of their road before. According to him, even going to town to buy their needs wasn’t always something that they looked forward to since they have to pass through very rough roads.
The KALAHI-CIDDS Project was introduced to the Municipality of Bacolod in 2003. Brgy. Babalaya, during the 1st Cycle, was one of the 7 barangays that qualified to have their proposed sub-project prioritized, which was the improvement of their road.
ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER TOP PROPOSED PROJECTS IN BONIFACIO AND KAPATAGANThursday, 29 July 2010 14:21 | | |
With the recently concluded Participatory Situational Analysis (PSA) in the municipalities of Bonifacio and Kapatagan, it appeared that majority of the barangays are aiming for the same project; a facility that would provide them access to safe drinking water.
FAMILIES FROM DAMULOG AND KITAOTAO TOWNS RECEIVE CASH GRANTS FROM DSWDMonday, 26 July 2010 12:24 | | |
507 Families from the municipality of Damulog, Bukidnon and 427 from the municipality of Kitaotao recently received cash grants from the Department of Social Welfare and Development through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
Families from Damulog received a total of P1.78M while families from Kitaotao received a total of P1.44M. These families, who are considered as the poorest households based on extensive enumeration facilitated by DSWD, are beneficiaries of 4Ps, a poverty reduction strategy of the Philippine government that aims to their improve health, nutrition, and education through provision of conditional cash. Each household is given a monthly cash grant of P300 per child, with a maximum of 3 children per household, for their educational needs, and P500 for monthly checkups for pregnant women and children at their local health centers and stations.
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NEW LAW GIVES NEW BENEFITS FOR SENIOR CITIZENSWednesday, 28 July 2010 08:59 | | |
Republic Act No. 9994, also known as “Expanded Senior Citizens Welfare Act of 2010,” which was recently signed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last February 10, 2010, emphasizes new benefits for senior citizens.
R.A. 9994 is entitled as “an Act granting additional benefits to Senior Citizens, further amending Republic Act No. 7432, as Amended, Otherwise Known as “An Act to Maximize the Contribution of Senior Citizens to Nation Building, Grant Benefits and Special Privileges and For Other Purposes.”
Unlike Republic Act 7432 which provides 20% discount for senior citizens availing medical, educational, transportation, lodging and other basic necessities, R.A. 9994 also provides death benefit assistance of a minimum of P2,000.00 to the nearest surviving relative of a deceased senior citizen which amount shall be subject to adjustments due to inflation in accordance with the guidelines to be issued by the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
MAKING READING A CHILD’S HABITWednesday, 21 July 2010 15:53 | | |
The campaign aimed at children to read books, especially those that uplift social and familial values and instilling to them that reading books will help in their academic performances and even become contributory to social development.
According to Ms. Purita Santa, Division Chief of the Technical Assistance Division of DSWD-X, parents also play a vital role in ensuring that children benefit from the habit of book reading. “If possible, parents should have small libraries in their homes where children can appreciate books which open them i n to a w orld of many discoveries.”
The public schools of which the students represented were given books donated by SM Mall Cagayan de Oro City. ###Charmaine P. Tadlas, Regional Information Officer
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