Butuan day care center bares accomplishments
By Johny S. Natad
BUTUAN CITY, Oct. 1 (PIA) –The Gender and
Development (GAD) Learning Resource Day Care Center (DCC) of this city revealed
significant accomplishments in its center operations.
Day Care in-charge Fe Techavez-Labitad, in an
interview, disclosed an increase of enrollees compared to the previous year.
“Our pre-school has raised from 40 enrollees last year to 47 for this school
year but it does not mean we are closing our enrolment since day care center is
a whole year round program compared to other preschool institutions who have
cut-off dates to cater children,” she said.
Labitad said the center also has undergone major
makeover since the time they transferred from city hall building to the new
location last year.
Labitad added that the continuing development of
the center relies on the assistance from the city government, the parents and
the concerned groups.
“When it comes to sustainability of the day care
operation, it largely depends on the support from the city government since
this is a mandatory program directing the national and local government to
established a preschool for the employees’ children based on EO No. 340 and
funds can be taken from the gender and development (GAD) funds,” Labitad said.
It was learned that the city has three existing
workplace-based DCC including those at the DENR and PNP. Butuan was the first
LGU to implement the workplace based DCC since 1982 and was nationally
recognized since 1985 when the former Senator Letecia Ramos-Shahani provided
one DCC at the adjacent building of the old Sangguniang Panglungsod.
“Day care parents group has its vital role to
help contribute a minimal monetary cash or in-kind or in a drop-in-a bucket
system,” Labitad explained.
According to Labitad, this has been her dream
and something hoped for having a permanent building, decent and conducive for
learning. “Our DCC served as venue for day care workers conferences in the past
few months, and a training center for the newly hired day care workers
especially those who are coming from different municipalities to pay visit and
learned ideas and techniques of DCC operation.”
Labitad is thankful for the support of City
Mayor Amante, City Administrator Leah Mendoza and other concerned people on
their concerted efforts to provide one learning school for the employees’
children. “This is one contributing factor how the government galvanizes its
support for the renovation of this DCC. City councilors like Ferdinand Nalcot
promised to give one unit of air conditioner; Samuel Amante pledged from his
CDF an amount of P10,000 for window grill materials; Nestor Amora gave already
some materials for the pathway cementing and one unit wall fan,” she bared.
Aside from DCC’s regular activities, Labitad
said an enhanced parent effectiveness services (EPES) seminar will be conducted
to help parents, surrogate parents, guardians and other care givers to enhance
their knowledge, skills and attitudes in parenting where they can be improve
their awareness on significant roles and responsibilities to the family
especially on health and nutrition, and family planning
Based on the previous year report, the DCC has
conducted regular activities like the day care service orientation for the
pre-school parents, nutrition month celebration, family day celebration,
national children month celebration, Christmas day and outdoor activities like
the educational tour to the museum and to the city library. (JSN/PIA-Caraga)
ASELCO targets 107 areas in AgSur under P-Noy’s
rural electrification program
By David M. Suyao
AGUSAN DEL SUR, Oct. 2 (PIA) - A total of 104
puroks/sitios and three barangays will be enjoying the luxury that electric
power could give as targeted under Batch II by the Agusan del Sur Electric
Cooperative, Inc. (ASELCO) to energize until December of this year.
According to ASELCO General Manager Emmanuel
Galarce, the first batch during the initial release by the government fund for
this year comprised 42 puroks/ sitios and eight barangays where three barangays
from Esperanza town were left behind subject to be completed during the second
batch which will end up on December this year.
For the second batch beneficiaries, it covers
the three barangays and three puroks of Esperanza, 11 puroks of Bayugan City,
eight puroks of Bunawan, three puroks of La Paz, five puroks of Loreto,18
puroks of Prosperidad, ten puroks of Rosario, 22 puroks of San Francisco, two
of San Luis, seven from Sibagat, four from Talacogon, eight from Trento, dfive
from Veruela and one from Sta. Josefa.
“The Barangay Line Enhancement Program (BLEP)
and the Sitio Electrification Program (SLEP) are President Aquino’s pronounced
commitment to the Filipino people that by the end of 2006, all barangays and
sitios nationwide are already energized. For ASELCO, aside from the scheduled
107 barangays and sitios, we added our target by 37 sitios and this will
increase our commitment to 200 BLEP and SLEP until December of this year. We
are also proud to tell you that after the completion of the first batch where
ASELCO excelled by meeting the target on time and returning some P2.3 million
excess fund to the national treasury, your cooperative was awarded the most
transparent and efficient electric cooperative nationwide,” GM Galarce said.
During a consultative and Coordination meeting
attended by 75 Barangay Captains and 107 sitios and puroks chairpersons as
beneficiaries held last week, Chief of ASELCO’s Members Services Department
Luzviminda Flores said they conducted said meeting in order that beneficiaries
of P-Noy’s BLEP and SLEP would be knowledgeable of the process of the program
for easier faster implementation.
“First, beneficiaries should know that this
program also needs the spirit of volunteerism from the beneficiaries and the
community so that they will be willing to help transport needed materials
specially in remote places and the clearing of areas where the electric posts
will be erected and to help explain to the members of the community why there
is a need to cut trees that could affect the electric lines installation. And
the most important participation of the community is to ensure the safety of
the people that will be working on the project,” Flores said. (DMS/PIA-Agusan
del Sur)
