MAASIM, Sarangani Province (February 4, 2011) – Municipal Mayor Jose Zamorro and Conal Holdings Corp. project assurance manager Rommel Falgui pose with the Langaran Elementary School pupils during the turnover ceremony of the new school building at barangay Amsipit.(MAASIM NEWS CENTRAL/Abner P. Arzaga)
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Maasim lyre players
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 4, 2011) – Students from Notre Dame of Maasim who won the high school category of drum and lyre competition display their talents of playing melodies in lyre as the community celebrates the feast of Sto. Niῆo at sitio Eslome in barangay Kablacan Sunday, January 30. (MAASIM NEWS CENTRAL/Joel C. Pinos)
Keep your faith
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 4, 2011) – Mayor Jose Zamorro delivers his inspirational message to his fellow Sto. Niῆo (child Jesus) devotees as the community venerates one of the local Catholic believers’ miraculous icons in sitio Eslome, barangay Kablacan Sunday, January30. The Sto. Niῆo chapel in the said place was built by the Falgui Family. Mayor Zamorro expressed his message of encouragement to strengthen their faith despite trials and tribulations bequeathing the town. (MAASIM NEWS CENTRAL/Joel C. Pinos)
Proper tooth brushing
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (February 8, 2011) – Elementary pupils of Tuyan Elementary School learn proper tooth brushing from the staff of Operation Blessing Foundation with board member Virgilio Clark Tobias at the medical mission in barangay Tuyan Monday (February 7). The Foundation will also conduct medical missions to barangays Lumasal in Maasim, Nalus in Kiamba and Mindupok and Kalaneg in Maitum. (Bon-Bon Quiño/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Operation Blessing opthalmologists
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (February 8, 2011) – Ophthalmologists from Operation Blessing Foundation check the eye of a resident in barangay Tuyan during the medical mission at Tuyan Elementary School, Monday (February 7). Other services include medical check-up, dental operation, feeding activity, livelihood turn-over, wheelchair distribution and conduct of counseling by the Haggai for Peace pastors. (Bon-Bon Quiño/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Municipal dentist
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (February 8, 2011) – Municipal dentist Zamrod Remitar performs a dental extraction at Tuyan Elementary School for the medical mission headed by Operation Blessing Foundation Philippines Inc., February 07, Monday. (Bon-Bon Quiño/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Medical mission
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (February 8, 2011) – Board Members Virgilio Clark Tobias (left) and Abdulracman Pangolima check patients and thank volunteers at the medical mission led by Operation Blessing Foundation in Tuyan Elementary School Monday (February 7). (Bon-Bon Quiño/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Livelihood turn-over
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (February 8, 2011) – Barangay captain Mohamad Amer Harid (left) and Core Pastor of Operation Blessing Foundation- Mindanao Romeo Gelacio lead the turn-over of livelihood to families of barangay Tuyan during the conduct of medical mission Monday (February 7) in partnership with the provincial, municipal and barangay local government units and Philippine Army’s 73rd Infantry Battalion. (Bon-Bon Quiño/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Kids against hunger
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (February 8, 2011) – Rona Alivio of Operation Blessing Foundation leads the distribution of fortified rice and beef flavored soy casserole chicken from Kids Against Hunger, an international food relief campaigner to the children of barangay Tuyan at the medical mission in Tuyan Elementary School, Monday (February 7). Operation Blessing Foundation is the humanitarian arm of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) Asia. (Bon-Bon Quiño/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Board Member Pangolima
MALAPATAN, Sarangani (February 8, 2011) – Aurora Rivera from Malapatan Health Office checks the blood pressure of Board Member Abdulracman Pangolima in his visit to the medical mission by Operation Blessing Foundation at Tuyan Elementary School Monday (February 7). (Bon-Bon Quiño/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Barangay Health Worker
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 10, 2011) – a barangay health worker of Lumasal leads the registration and checking of blood pressure together with Operation Blessing Foundation for the five-day medical mission in five barangays of Sarangani. The activity is in partnership with the Provincial Government of Sarangani, Local Government of Maasim and Lumasal, 73rd Infantry Battalion, community churches, private doctors and other partners. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Bon-Bon Quiño)
Child-friendly space
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 10, 2011) – The staff of Operation Blessing Foundation demonstrates an action song to the children of barangay Lumasal in their child-friendly space in line with the five-day medical mission in five different barangays of Sarangani. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Bon-Bon Quiño)
Counseling
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 10, 2011) – Pastor Bryan Aungon of Haggai For Peace Project under the office of Vice Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon counsels a group of youth as one of the services conducted in the medical mission spearheaded by Operation Blessing Foundation in partnership with the Provincial Government of Sarangani and local government units of Maasim and barangay Lumasal. The five-day medical activity served five barangays namely Tuyan of Malapatan, Lumasal in Maasim, Nalus at Kiamba and Mindupok and Kalaneg of Maitum. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Bon-Bon Quiño)
Free haircut
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 10, 2011) – Officials of barangay Lumasal give free haircut to their residents especially to the high school students as one of the services during the medical outreach activity Tuesday, February 8. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Bon-Bon Quiño)
Laboratory tests
MAASIM, Sarangani (February 10, 2011) – Learma Grace Carinal, a medical technologist from Operation Blessing Foundation, makes some laboratory tests from urinalysis to blood typing during the medical outreach activity at barangay Lumasal Tuesday, February 8. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Bon-Bon Quiño)
Monday, February 7, 2011
Displaced families now own homes
ALABEL, Sarangani Province (February 4, 2011)- Previously homeless families dwelling in calamity danger zones and squatter areas are now afforded with homes to call their own in a hilly resettlement site at Barangay Spring.
SpringHill Village, overlooking Sarangani Bay, provides homes to fifty-two families, some of them were displaced by the flashflood in 2008, at the turnover ceremony Friday (February 4). A total of 107 units will be constructed here.
Vice- Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon said this is a joint project of the municipal government of Alabel, the provincial government, Department of Social Welfare and Development Region XII, and the province of Albay purposely “to move these families out from high-risk areas into safer homes.”
Solon said Albay’s support to Sarangani shows their concern that Sarangani won’t experience what they had been experiencing back to their province.
Rogelio Claro, 67, said his family, along with his six children, shall no longer worry when a storm comes now that they already have a permanent house “made of concrete walls”. Claro and several other squatter families lived shanties for about 15 years.
The municipal government purchased the resettlement site for P2.3 million.
Alabel and Albay province placed P900,000 fund for the site development while Sarangani provincial government will donate a water system.
According to Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)- Central Office project officer Rey Martija, the local government augmented P15,000 for every P50,000 subsidized by DSWD for each of the 107 housing units.
The resettlement project has a total of P5.3 million and complies with the requirement of Moderate Shelter Assistance Project.
Through bayanihan system, Martija said the stewardship scheme for the project implementation motivated homeowners because they have shared responsibilities in building their own houses.
Solon said requiring the stewards to work as their counterpart would instill in them a “sense of ownership”.
Claro said they only had to work thrice a week until they can complete the 86-day requirement as estimated in the program of work.
“Like other resettlement sites in Sarangani, stewards are encouraged to develop their houses within five years since awarded,” provincial social welfare and development officer Hermelo Latoja said,.
“This is a good venue for these families to start a community,” Solon said, “which thru teamwork they can develop later.” Solon promised to donate P50,000 for a day care and multi-purpose center the homeowners can start with.
Mayor Corazon Grafilo likewise enjoined them to cooperate for development and to live peacefully in the community and become a model community.
The local government and DSWD also turned-over to homeowners the Juanicoville resettlement site in Malapatan last month. (Beverly Paoyon/SARANGANIINFORMATION OFFICE)
SpringHill Village, overlooking Sarangani Bay, provides homes to fifty-two families, some of them were displaced by the flashflood in 2008, at the turnover ceremony Friday (February 4). A total of 107 units will be constructed here.
Vice- Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon said this is a joint project of the municipal government of Alabel, the provincial government, Department of Social Welfare and Development Region XII, and the province of Albay purposely “to move these families out from high-risk areas into safer homes.”
Solon said Albay’s support to Sarangani shows their concern that Sarangani won’t experience what they had been experiencing back to their province.
Rogelio Claro, 67, said his family, along with his six children, shall no longer worry when a storm comes now that they already have a permanent house “made of concrete walls”. Claro and several other squatter families lived shanties for about 15 years.
The municipal government purchased the resettlement site for P2.3 million.
Alabel and Albay province placed P900,000 fund for the site development while Sarangani provincial government will donate a water system.
According to Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)- Central Office project officer Rey Martija, the local government augmented P15,000 for every P50,000 subsidized by DSWD for each of the 107 housing units.
The resettlement project has a total of P5.3 million and complies with the requirement of Moderate Shelter Assistance Project.
Through bayanihan system, Martija said the stewardship scheme for the project implementation motivated homeowners because they have shared responsibilities in building their own houses.
Solon said requiring the stewards to work as their counterpart would instill in them a “sense of ownership”.
Claro said they only had to work thrice a week until they can complete the 86-day requirement as estimated in the program of work.
“Like other resettlement sites in Sarangani, stewards are encouraged to develop their houses within five years since awarded,” provincial social welfare and development officer Hermelo Latoja said,.
“This is a good venue for these families to start a community,” Solon said, “which thru teamwork they can develop later.” Solon promised to donate P50,000 for a day care and multi-purpose center the homeowners can start with.
Mayor Corazon Grafilo likewise enjoined them to cooperate for development and to live peacefully in the community and become a model community.
The local government and DSWD also turned-over to homeowners the Juanicoville resettlement site in Malapatan last month. (Beverly Paoyon/SARANGANIINFORMATION OFFICE)
Acting Governor
ALABEL, Sarangani (February 7, 2011) – Acting Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon commits P50,000 for the construction of the multi-purpose center for the residents of Springhill Village in barangay Spring at the turnover ceremony of 107 housing units amounting to P5.3 million Friday (February 4). (Photo by Romina Rabina/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Key of ownership
ALABEL, Sarangani (February 7, 2011) – Beneficiary Patricio Perfecto receives a certificate of stewardship and the key of ownership from Acting Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon after completing 72 hours of work for his own house during the turnover ceremony of 107 housing units Friday, (February 4), at barangay Spring’s Springhill Village, a joint shelter assistance project of the provincial and municipal government and the Department of Social Welfare and Development- XII. Also in photo are (from left) provincial social welfare and development officer Hermelo Latoja, DSWD assistant regional director Gemma Rivera, vice-mayor Vincent Paul Salarda and mayor Corazon Grafilo. (Photo by Romina Rabina / SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Plaque of appreciation
ALABEL, Sarangani (February 7, 2011) – Acting Governor Steve Solon receives a plaque of appreciation for the province from the municipal government with vice-mayor Vincent Paul Salarda, mayor Corazon Grafilo, and the Department of Social Welfare and Development- XII for being a partner in building the Springhill Village, a joint shelter assistance project of the local government and DSWD at the turnover ceremony Friday, February 4, of the 107 housing units worth P5.3 million with 52 units already completed. Looking on is provincial social welfare and development officer Hermelo Latoja. (Romina Rabina/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
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