PIA Mindanao RDs to visit typhoon-hit areas
BUTUAN CITY, Dec. 7 (PIA) – The Philippine
Information Agency (PIA) regional directors of Mindanao cluster will visit
Tacloban City and its neighboring towns in Leyte to personally convey the
Mindanao’s solidarity to the people in Eastern Visayas.
“We, Mindanaoans stand shoulder-to-shoulder with
the people in the Visayas in this very difficult time,” said Western, Central
and Southern Mindanao cluster head and PIA-XI regional director Efren
Elbanbuena. Mindanao cluster is composed of the regions IX, X, XI, XII and
XIII.
“We have been mobilizing support from our
regions. Just recently, we have launched ‘A Tent for A Family’ drive,
hopefully, we will bring some tents to our brethren in Tacloban,” said Northern
and Northeastern Mindanao cluster head and Caraga regional director Abner Caga.
Caga said they are also set to visit the
affected PIA employees in region 8.
“There is also a plan to visit other affected
communities in Samar,” said Elbanbuena.
It can be recalled that on Nov. 24, a team
composed of personnel from Caraga Region led by Dir. Caga representing all the
regions in Mindanao was dispatched to Tacloban City to operationalize the
information infrastructure in the region, as the PIA-8 regional office was
devastated. They stayed there for almost two weeks. (FEA/PIA-Caraga)
MindaComNet elects new officers
TAGUM CITY, Dec. 7 (PIA) - The Mindanao
Communicators Network (MindaComNet) elected recently its new set of officers
held in time with the government communicators’ congress at Big 8 Corporate
Hotel, this city.
The new set of officers will serve for two years
and they will look into the well-being of the MindaComNet as an organization of
government information officers in Mindanao.
Elected officials who took their oath of office
are as follows: President – Efren Elbanbuena, regional director of PIA-XI; Vice
President - Abner Caga, regional director of PIA Caraga Region; Secretary -
Teresita Baluyos of DOST-10, Treasurer – Romulo Tagalo of Davao del Norte; Bus.
Managers – Daniel dela Cena of Agusan del Norte Electric Cooperative (ANECO)
and Annette P. Villaces of Surigao City; PRO – Noemi Edaga, regional director
of PIA-IX; Sgt. At Arms - Frutos
Sumagaysay of South Cotabato and Board Members: Olivia Sudaria, regional
director of PIA-XII; Thelma B. Oliver, regional director of PIA-X; Joehar
Salahuddin of ARMM; Baintan Abdula of ARMM; Fe Maestre of Compostela Valley;
Decius Esmedalla of DOT-10; and Lowell Vallecer of DTI-IX.
This year’s congress is anchored on the theme,
“Communicating PNoy’s Social Contracts with the Mindanaoans.”
During the event, Davao del Norte Gov. Rodolfo
del Rosario highlighted the province’s experience on disaster preparedness and
adaptation to Climate Change. Updates on the Bangsamoro framework agreement,
MinDA’s Norturing Our Watersheds and Overcoming Poverty through IPs were also
shared and discussed. The activity also boosted camaraderie among information
officers in Mindanao.
The congress was also graced by Usec Jose Mari
Oquinena, Director-General of the Philippine Information Agency as the keynote
speaker. (FEA/PIA-Caraga)
