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Pilmico donated egg machines to Leyte farmers

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CARIGARA, Leyte- At least 25 individuals from this town received egg machines from the Pilmico Foods Corporation. The machines are expected to provide additional income to the beneficiaries after they lost their livelihood after the onslaught of supertyphoon Yolanda. The distribution of the egg machines of the Pilmico is under it “Mahalin Pagkaing Atin,” which aims to encourage more farmers to engage in homegrown food and a sustainable livelihood. The distribution of the egg machines to the 25 beneficiaries was held last October 21. Engaging in this business, the egg machine enables the individual with little skill or zero knowledge of egg farming into an efficient producer of table eggs. This will also provide consumers with fresh eggs, serves as backyard integration of the present business, provides livelihood to out of town entrepreneurs and many others. According to Dr. Brian Taala, owner of Taala Farm in Bacolod, through proper care and management of this business, profit will surely come in. Within 16 months, the Pilmico will monitor all the 25 beneficiaries and will conduct assistant trainings on how to manage their egg machines, as well as other skills and technical training needed to do well in their business. Katrina Bayog, Pilmico community relation service unit lead, said that Pilmico is not limiting this program in Palo and Carigara but across different areas in Leyte like the cities of Ormoc and Baybay. (MYLA ANN JOMADIAO (LNU Intern)

UNHCR delivers fresh batch of non-food items in areas in Eastern Visayas hit by Yolanda

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TACLOBAN CITY- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) started distributing on October 13 thousands of core relief items to priority areas in this city as part of its on-going recovery assistance.

The UN refugee agency began its distribution of 4,000 hygiene kits comprised of toiletries, wrap-around clothing and undergarments in four transitional shelters in the north of the city where 372 displaced families from the hardest-hit communities of the San Jose district are temporarily relocated. The hygiene kits will be apportioned across the agency’s sub-offices in Ormoc City in Leyte and Guiuan, Eastern Samar for subsequent distribution in the coming days. The delivery of these core relief items from the UNHCR is primarily linked to their global protection mandate in situations of displacement resulting from conflict and natural disasters. “These hygiene kits help improve the water and sanitation conditions for displaced families in their new and temporary relocation sites by mitigating risks of certain diseases,” said Eilish Hurley, UNHCR associate protection officer in Tacloban.

Earlier this year, the UNHCR completed its distribution of emergency core relief items such as tents, plastic sheets, blankets, jerry cans, kitchen sets, solar lanterns and other essential non-food items across three regions in the central Philippines. “To date, and since November last year, we have delivered core relief items to more than 700,000 of the most vulnerable of the affected populations including those in far-flung areas,” Hurley added. Meanwhile, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) coordinated with UNHCR’s protection team to bring their energy-efficient charcoal-fueled stoves to these priority areas.
The UNHCR is also set to distribute another batch of solar-powered lanterns later this year. Solar lanterns are regarded as one of the most innovative relief items in the agency’s operations, lighting up communities to help the safety and security of families. UNHCR’s emergency and recovery efforts are part of an inter-agency humanitarian response to typhoon Haiyan in coordination with government authorities and local communities. (PR)

DOLE intensifies campaign on child labor in Eastern Samar

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TACLOBAN CITY-The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is strengthening on the implementation of laws on child labor, particularly in Eastern Samar, alarm on the increasing number of children forced to work at their young age.

According to Exequiel Ronie Guzman, assistant regional director of the DOLE-8, Eastern Samar appeared to have the highest number of child labor cases. Based on their data covering the period of February to April, 2013, there were 1,389 children who are working under circumstances that made their department classified them as child workers. Guzman also said that as of this year, they have monitored four cases of child labor in the province. The labor official said that poverty remains to be the main reason why cases of child labor exists in Eastern Samar, considered to be one of the most depressed provinces in the country.
“Parents require their children to work instead of attending school to gain income for the family and this is considered as child labor,” said Guzman.

As stated in Article VIII of R. A. No. 7610 otherwise known as the “Special Protection of Children Against Child Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act” on Section 12, children below 15 years of age shall not be employed except when a child works directly under the sole responsibility of his parents or legal guardian and where only members of the employer’s family are employed. DOLE strongly calls for the barangay and the local government units officials on the rampant cases of child labor in the region. “We also work together with the DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development) to reduce cases of child labor by providing livelihood assistance to prioritized parents who have minor children and is vulnerable to child labor,” Guzman added. Apart from the livelihood programs, DSWD also conducted parents counselling for them to be informed about the child rights and protection to lessen the rampant cases of child labor. (JEANE MARIE M.FAMINOGAN, LNU Intern)

Maasin received hall of fame award for nutrition

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Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco leading his fellow officials and city workers during the awarding of Hall of Fame for Nutrition for his city in PICC-Manila on October 21, 2014. Photo courtesy of MA. ESSIE GARVEZ
Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco leading his fellow officials and city workers during the awarding of Hall of Fame for Nutrition for his city in PICC-Manila on October 21, 2014. Photo courtesy of MA. ESSIE GARVEZ
Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco leading his fellow officials and city workers during the awarding of Hall of Fame for Nutrition for his city in PICC-Manila on October 21, 2014. Photo courtesy of MA. ESSIE GARVEZ

TACLOBAN CITY- Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco thanked his city workers and constituents on their contribution after the city received this year’s National Nutrition Honor Award. “We get the Hall of Fame for Nutrition because of the efforts of our city health officials and workers, barangay officials and nutrition scholars with the support of city officials and employees and all stakeholders especially in the Adopt A Malnourished Child Program,” Samaco told Leyte Samar Daily Express. The National Nutrition Committee conferred the award to the city last Tuesday at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Manila.

The award shows that Maasin exemplified outstanding performances on its nutrition program. “I would like to thank the National Nutrition Committee for letting us pass the 98% rating for the Nutrition Honor Award. We will not rest on our laurels and continue to reduce malnutrition to 2% in Maasin City,” Samaco added. Aside from bagging the highest nutrition award among other local government units, Maasin is recipient of the Red Orchid “Hall of Fame” award of the Department of Health and World Health Organization for its efforts to attain 100 percent tobacco-free environment. Samaco maintained he will turn Maasin, with its population of over 85, 000, into a “no smoking capital of the Philippines.” (RONALD O.REYES)

Health official pushes activation of local AIDS council to help stop spread of sex-related diseases in Ormoc

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ORMOC CITY- In the wake of reported increase of sexually transmitted infection (STI) affecting young people of this city, the Local Aids Council (LAC) is now being activated in all the villages of this city. Cases of STI have been monitored to be afflicted teenagers in the city, alarming health officials. STI cases have also been noted to increase among so-called freelance and young commercial sex workers, reason why the spread of the disease has increase. If untreated, this infection may develop to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), precursor of AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), said Ma. Lily Flores, LAC coordinator. “The victims are getting younger that is why we appeal to village officials to encourage these teenagers to submit for hygiene at City Health Office,” Flores said. The health official, however, did not cite any figure as to how many teenagers or commercial sex workers in the city have been inflicted with STI. The council tapped the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) through Liga ng mga Barangay hoping people in the communities will become responsive to this appeal. Flores expects that through concerted efforts, fear of possible runway cases of STI or sexually transmitted diseases could be stopped, if not avoided. The city joins the commemoration of World Aids Day on December 1 with a week-long activity has been prepared including lecture/symposium that is integrated with values formation to students.
It will start with a motorcade around the city that will be participated by local “workers” from various establishments, counseling during hygiene and poster-making contest. The theme: “Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-free generation” fits the current situation that following the aftermath of typhoon “Yolanda”, the people fought to restore what were lost. (ELVIE ROMAN ROA)

AOG Chicken opens in Tacloban

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TACLOBAN CITY – The market-consumer climate here in Tacloban remains to have great potential reason why he decided to open a branch of its chicken meat shop. Thus said Eric Codilla, former mayor of Ormoc City who owns the AOG Chicken, a local chicken meat shop which offers organic chicken. Codilla opened its AOG Chicken outlet in Tacloban last October 29. Tacloban experienced its worst tragedy when supertyphoon Yolanda struck the city close to a year now. But Codilla said that his decision to open a branch in Tacloban hinged on the fast recovery of the city from Yolanda’s wrath. “We in Ormoc experienced the same when we were devastated by the flash floods in 1991. But our businessmen stood by the city and maintained their businesses which helped our commercial center rise back up again,” Codilla said.

The said massive flash flood incident killed over 3,000 people in Ormoc, one of the country’s worst tragedies. The newly opened AOG Chicken along Real Street corner Sampaguita is one of two or three branches that the Codilla-owned company plans to open in Tacloban. “We really see a good market here in Tacloban considering that this is a regional center and caters to many towns in Leyte and Samar,” Codilla added.
Dressed chicken and other chicken products offered by AOG Chicken are free from chemicals, thus their products are healthier and tastier without the harmful effects of electrolytes. The secret is in the naturally farmed process in raising the chickens.

In place of chemicals, they concoct their own organic solution which they learned from seminars of the Department of Agriculture and the Visayas State University. The special mix consists of rice, milk, garlic and ginger to boost the chicken’s immune system. The company produces around 4,000 chicken heads daily, which they sell in their family-owned meat shop in Ormoc and other retailers in Naval, Biliran, Baybay City, Palompon and Isabel. AOG Chicken initially offered their dressed chicken at P105 per kilo and P170 for “lechon manok”. However, they have a special buy 1 take 1 offer of P240 for their lechon manok.
Poultry is not the first business he has ventured into, according to Codilla. He started his piggery business in 2007 but decided to have a poultry farm after seeing that there is a need for a supplier of organic chicken in the region. Local supplies in Eastern Visayas are being sourced from Cebu. (AHLETTE C. REYES)

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