Water, water everywhere… Nor any drop to drink! This quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner best describes the island barangay of Sibolo in Caluya, Antique. Potable water is scarce in the island. The water coming from deep well is briny. People only use it for bathing and for other household continue reading : Sibolo: Island-barangay quenches its thirst
A School Finally Comes To Igbong
By Kristine Hope Hugo, CDO II For years, pupils in Barangay Igbong, Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo have to walk a long way to complete their elementary education. Although there is a primary school in the village, it consists of just four classrooms and can only cater up to Grade 4. Mrs. Roselyn Quiñones, 46 and a continue reading : A School Finally Comes To Igbong
Mass Wedding: A Unique Venue for Convergence
By Ivy Q. Palec, Area Coordinator It had been raining, turning the dirt path into a sticky slippery walk with young banana plants sticking out of the tall grass. Still, the village – just a few hundred meters hike from the highway, remained quite accessible. A sound system was set up, makeshift tents were continue reading : Mass Wedding: A Unique Venue for Convergence
Carabao Saves the Day for Unidos
By Marilee Trombini, AREA COORDINATOR, ACT-NABAS Like many other areas in Nothern Panay, Barangay Unidos in Nabas, Aklan took the brunt of Super Typhoon Yolanda’s wrath. Houses were ripped apart, crops were destroyed, and livestock was lost. There were human casualties, too. When it came, however, for them to choose a Kalahi-CIDSS funded toward the rehabilitation continue reading : Carabao Saves the Day for Unidos
DSWD6 stops educational aid
The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office VI had suspended the releasing of educational assistance effective immediately. “We have exhausted the funds,” said DSWD6 Regional Director, Rebecca P. Geamala. Geamala sad that this will be an indefinite suspension of educational assistance until such time that the office gets an additional funding from the continue reading : DSWD6 stops educational aid
Center uses dancing for healing
An adage says, “Dance like nobody is watching.” Perhaps it is in dancing when people release negative energies and learn to be more appreciative of life as it is. For Home for Girls, a center that helps rehabilitate children victimized by various abuses, dancing has been employed as a strategy to usher the girls towards continue reading : Center uses dancing for healing
4Ps Extension Office in Panipiason, Madalag serves as second home for IPs living in GIDA
No more sleepless night and long walks at the rocky and hilly roads just to submit updated report to Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) Office in town of Madalag, Aklan. This after Pantawid Extension Office was built by 4Ps members in Barangay Panipiason to serve better for their Indigenous Peoples (IPs) co-members without taking risk continue reading : 4Ps Extension Office in Panipiason, Madalag serves as second home for IPs living in GIDA
DSWD conducts IP Information Caravan in Antique
The Department of Social Welfare and Development 6 is celebrating October as Indigenous Peoples (IPs) month under the Presidential Decree 1906 of 2009 based on the constitutional mandate to recognize and protect the rights of indigenous cultural communities towards national unity and development. With this, the Department through the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program conducted an continue reading : DSWD conducts IP Information Caravan in Antique
Barangay Cabugao, Altavas: Their Journey To Ownership
By Caroline N. Alzate, Area Coordinator, ACT ALTAVAS “Ro Kalahi hay matsa guinbuligan kita nga magtahi it eambong, magpili ag guin taw-an it materyales ag guinbuligan magtahi ag tapos hay guintao man katon para naton suksukon” (Kalahi is like helping us make a dress, sew it and gave it to us to wear.) This continue reading : Barangay Cabugao, Altavas: Their Journey To Ownership
Bayanihan at Pamul-ogan
By Flora Mae M. Palencia, CDO III “When there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. It is through unity and cooperation that developments are achieved.” Cabatuan Mayor Ronilo Casiple This aptly describes the journey of Barangay Pamul-ogan in Cabatuan, Iloilo in realizing its dreams of providing access to Sitio Salakay. Pamul-ogan is continue reading : Bayanihan at Pamul-ogan