CEB launches direct flight to Tandag
TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, June 30 (PIA) –
The Cebu Pacific (CEB) launched launch on Monday its direct flight from Cebu to
Tandag City, the capital of Surigao del Sur. Tandag is the airline's 34th
domestic destination.
Accordingly, the new route utilizes a 72-seat
ATR aircraft that will depart Cebu at 11:10 a.m. and will be arriving in Tandag
at 12:15 p.m. The return flight will depart at 12:35 p.m., and will be arriving
back in Cebu at 1:40 p.m.
Tandag City Tourism Officer Florence Abis said
the service will operate thrice a week every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
(NGBT/PIA-Surigao del Sur)
DAR holds Farmer’s Congress in Dinagat Islands
By Ma. Jane Mayola
DINAGAT ISLANDS, June 30 (PIA) - In line with
the 26th Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) anniversary celebration,
the Department of Agrarian Reform Dinagat Islands Prov’l Office conducted a one-day
Farmer’s Congress held recently at Aurelio Gym, San Jose, this province.
The activity was aimed to update the farmers on
the latest status of the farming industry and to upgrade their knowledge on
modern farming techniques.
During the event, Dinagat Islands chief agrarian
reform program officer Milagrosa B. Bulawan presented the milestone of the
Special Agrarian Reform Community (SPARC) in the province.
According to Bulawan, the SPARC received more
than P500 million worth of DAR Foreign Assisted Projects for Rural Developments
that included the road network, warehouse, solar dryer, school buildings,
health center, water system and among others.
It can be recalled that the entire Dinagat
Islands was launched as a SPAR Community by DAR in 1993 covering 100 barangays,
the springboard in converting some mineral reserved area into agricultural area
of the province. (SDR/PIO-Dinagat Islands/PIA-Dinagat Islands)
Feature: Bridging one’s dream
By Catherine M. Nami and Stella Maris Barlisan
“Consult
not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your
frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with
what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do” -
Pope John XXIII.
Leomie Cabarrubias, is a 25 years old woman from
barangay Tagubay, Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur, she has been through a lot and
in many times she failed but she never losses hope that one day she will reach
her dream.
Leomie is the 4th child among the 9 siblings of
Mr. and Mrs. Leonardo Cubarrubias. She loves to learn and she is a woman full
of dreams and ambition. “When I was still in high school, I always wanted to be
an Agriculturist because I am always fond of planting,” Leomie confessed.
Her parents work in a farm which they leased.
They planted it with Falcata tree, corn and root crops. Considering the number
of members in their family, their parent’s income cannot suffice their daily
expenditures. Leomie’s parents cannot afford to send them all to college. In
fact, Leomie stopped going to high school for four years to help her parents in
toiling the farm that made her finished high school at the age of 20.
“As much as I wanted to proceed to college but
our situation was difficult,” shared Leomie with a sad voice.
But Leomie’s hope never falter. After she
graduated from high school in 2006, she ventured to Manila in order to work
hoping that she can save money to continue her studies. Leomie landed a job as
a house maid for four years but unfortunately, failed to save money because she
sent her salary back home to support her family.
Because of the meager income that she earned she
quit from being a house maid and opted to work as a saleslady in one of the malls
in Manila. After five months, not able to withstand the frantic schedule in the
said city, she resigned and moved to Cavite. She worked as a vegetable and fish
vender in the market owned by her relatives.
“Though I no longer have to spend money from my
own pocket to pay for my board and lodging because I am staying in my
relative’s house, still my income is not enough to save for college,” she
admitted.
Driven with so much eagerness and determination
to help her family, Leomie applied as lady guard in Win Ace agency in Quezon
City and was luckily accepted. Despite of all the hardships she had been
through, still she’s instigated to reach her dream that is to continue her
studies and become an agriculturist someday.
“If you believe in yourself and in your dreams,
life will help you reach it,” Leomie pounded on this.
One day, her mother rang her over the phone and
told her about the SGP-PA (Student Grants-in-Aid Program for Poverty
Alleviation) scholarship program for Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries.
SGP-PA aims to contribute to the National
Government’s thrusts in effectively addressing poverty alleviation by
increasing number of graduates in higher education among poor households and to
get these graduates employed in high-value added occupations in order to lift
their families out of poverty and contribute to national development. Her
family, being an active beneficiary of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, she
was chosen as one among 4,041 potential beneficiaries of the said program.
Upon hearing the news, she immediately filed for
resignation from her agency even when the city link explained to her that she
still needs to undergo initial interview and examination. All she wants is to
take the opportunity because it only knocks once. “I could not let this
opportunity go without even trying, when my mother and the city link told me
about it, I am already sure that I will pass the interview and the exam, I am
already claiming the success,” she professed.
Leomie almost failed to reach the deadline for
the registration and initial interview as one of the basic requirements to
avail the program since she still needs to travel from Manila to Bayugan City.
Her mother needed to borrow money from their neighbor so that she can pay the
ticket for her flight back home.
Leomie has good scholastic records, and so she
was recommended to take the entrance examination in which she passed together
with the interview. No words can explain the feeling she felt that time.
Leomie’s family was so elated and was proud of
her. Her family is currently an active member of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino
Program. Being a scholar of SGP-PA, her parents are very much thankful because
they will no longer worry for her daily expenses and allowance while she is in
school. Loume’s parents and sibling have always been supportive with her. They
always call her and extend their motivation and encouragement, the things they
can only afford to give.
She also shared that there were times during her
first year in college when the first semester allowance got delayed, and she
has nothing left in her pocket. She tried to find other means to sustain her
immediate needs without asking assistance from her family. “In order to feed
myself I accepted laundry job from my instructors/professors and board mates, I
was never ashamed of it because what I did was something decent, I did not
stole from anybody just to have money,” said Leomie.
Some of the people dream of success while others
wake up and work hard in it. In the case of Loume, she did it both. Leomie
believes that what James Willam said, one of the most influential philosophers,
“Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes
out from you.”
Leomie is now currently a 3rd year full load
student in the University of South Eastern Philippines (USEP) in Tagum City,
Compostela Valley Province as an agriculture student major in crop science.
Bearing a positive outlook in life,
determination, perseverance and hard work, no doubt that she will definitely
achieve what she dreams that is to gain a degree, uplift her family out of
poverty and to render back service to the government……. the bridge to her
success. (DSWD-13/PIA-Caraga)
Feature: A Global Teacher
By Dr. Maria Dinah D. Abalos
Who is a global teacher? Is he the one who comes
to school and teaches the skills? Or the one who teaches the pupils?
In today’s world where almost everything can be
done at the tip of a finger with technology, where learners are also adept to
technology where learning is fast and quick, what the schools need is a global
teacher. A teacher, who facilitates, motivates guides and encourages every
learner to become the best they can be -- not simply teach.
The K to 12 curriculum has been sought as a
powerful tool to address poverty, unemployment and underemployment. No less
than Pres. Noynoy Aquino firmly believed that said curriculum is very timely
and would surely make every graduate an expedient member of the society. Being
part of DepEd organization, the biggest bureaucracy of the country therefore,
is a privilege for every Filipino licensed teacher to teach and implement the
K-12 curriculum. So as the saying goes, “Be proud you are a teacher, the
success of K-12 depends on you.”
In line with the Teacher Strengths and Needs
Analysis and Individual Personal and Professional Development Plan (TSNA –
IPPD), teachers need to identify their needs and find solutions to these needs.
By so doing, all teachers are aware of their weaknesses and strengths; thereby
allowing them to consider all means to improve his/her ways of teaching. Gone
are the days when teachers are coming to school equipped with lesson plans and
teach, fill in the DTR and leave after teaching.
A global teacher is an empowered teacher. He/she
is given the authority to do and give his/her best to effect learning to the
children inside the classroom. One of the best actions that a teacher could do
is to submit himself to capability - building and empowerment. This is perhaps
the main reason that several government and non-government organizations
offered various training - workshops and seminars to capacitate the teachers.
In the same manner, the K-12 BEC requires much capacity-building for teachers.
In the K-12 implementation, it is really a
mandate that teachers must undergo training before he/she can teach Grades
I-III and Grades 7-9. This is for them to be equipped with the necessary skills
and strategies in teaching variety of learners in the 21st century.
In order to produce holistically developed 21st
century skilled learners, we also need effective and efficient globally
competitive teachers. (EPS-I DepEd, Butuan City/PIA-Agusan del Norte)
Lathalain: Mga Pinoy, kulang sa protina
By Josefina T. Gonzales
MANILA, June 30 - Alam nyo ba na ang pamilyang
Pinoy ay kulang sa protina?
Ito ay ayon sa 2008 National Nutrition Survey na
isinagawa ng Food and Nutrition Research Institute ng Department of Science
& Technology (FNRI-DOST).
Ang kakulangan sa protina ay ayon sa Estimated
Average Requirement (EAR) na 80 porsiyento ng Recommended Energy and Nutrient
Intake (RENI) para sa protina.
Ang protina ay kailangan ng katawan para sa
pagbuo ng mga muscles at body tissues. Bukod dito, ang protina ay tinaguriang
karpintero ng ating katawan. Ito ay sa dahilang tagapagbuo at nagkukumpuni ito
ng mga himaymay ng ating kalamnan.
Ayon sa pang-apat na mensahe ng Nutritional
Guidelines for Filipinos,” Kumain ng isda, karne itlog, mga butong gulay o nuts
tulad ng mani, kasuy at iba pang kauri nito. Ito ay para sa paglaki at
pag-saayos ng mga nasirang himaymay o body tissues.”
Ugaliin nating isama ang mga pagkaing sagana sa
protina sa araw - araw na lutuin.
Ang impormasyon na ito ay hatid ng Food and
Nutrition Research Institute ng Department of Science and Technology o
FNRI-DOST. Para sa karadagdagan impormasyon at kaalaman sa pagkain at nutrisyon
sumulat o tumawag kay: Dr. Mario V. Capanzana, Director ng FNRI- DOST. General
Santos Avenue, Bicutan, Taguig City o sa kanyang E-mail address:
mcv@fnri.dost.gov.ph o sa telepono bilang 837-2934 and 827-3164, Maari ring
bisitahin ang aming website: http://www.fnri.dost.gov.ph (FNRI-DOST S&T
Media Service/PIA-Caraga)
Lathalain: Ang mga makabagong eba
By Dr. Maria Dinah D. Abalos
MANILA, June 30 - Di natin maisan-tabi ang katunayang bahagi na ng
ating kasaysayan ang papel na ginampanan ng mga kababaihan. Anu’t – ano pa man
ay binasi sa kakahayan ng mga babae ang maaari nilang maging katayuan sa
komunidad, pamamahay at estado.
Sa loob ng napakaraming taon, ang mga babae ay
limitado lamang ang pwedeng gawin. Di sila nabigyan ng pagkakataong mag-aral sa
kolehiyo sa paniniwalang bubuhayin din lamang sila ng kanilang mga asawa. Di makaboto, hanggang
gawaing-bahay lang, di makapagdesisyon at walang boses sa anumang
diskusyon, ay iilan lamang sa mga bagay
na wala sa mga kababaihan noon.
Noong araw sila ay pinapakain lang, nag-alaga ng
mga bata, labada at sunud-sunoran sa kanilang mga asawa. Sila ay di gaanong
nabigyan ng pansin na may higit pa silang magagawa sa bayan, pamayanan at
pamilya at may kakayahang baguhin ang kanilang pamumuhay.
Ngayon ay ibang-iba na ang mga babae. Ito’y
marahil sa mga ipinasang batas upang maitaas ang antas at kikilanin ang pwede
nilang maiambag sa makabagong panahon. Ang Gender And Development (GAD) na
isang uri ng programang naghihikayat sa lahat na bigyang halaga ang mga babae.
Kinikilala rin ang kanilang maitulong sa pag-unlad ng bayan, paglinang ng
kultura at pag-angat ng kaledad ng buhay.
Sa pagkakataong ito, tayong mga Pilipino ay
isinasabuhay ang malaking parte ng makabagong Eba sa pagkamit ng mga mithiin,
mga ambisyon, pagtulong sa pag-unlad, papel na maaari nilang gampanan at higit
sa lahat hindi lang sila pampamilya kundi pang- isports, pangpulitika,
pangtrabaho, pangpatimpalak at pangdesisyon.
Alam ba ninyo na marami na ngayon sa ating
pamayanan ang mga kababaihan ang naging katuwang ng kani-kanilang asawa sa
paghubog ng kanilang mga anak, nagtatrabaho at nagiging lider? Sa Metro Manila
at kahit sa mga probinsya, ako’y manghang-mangha dahil maraming mga babaeng
konduktor, traffic officers, pulis, drayber, sundalo, alkalde, gobernador at
marami pang iba.
May mga opisina rin na karamihan sa mga
manggagawa ay mga babae tulad ng mga guro, nars, pulis, pagawaan at iba pa.
Ngayon ay kaya nating sabihin na nagbago na ang
paningin natin sa mga babae. Sila’y katuwang na natin at minsan nga ay
nalagpasan pa ang pwedeng gawin ng mga lalaki.
Kaya’t panahon na para ating tanggapin ang
katotohanang pantay-pantay ang babae at lalaki sa anumang larangan at sa
anumang pagkakataon. Tayo na rin ang tutulong upang lubusang malaman ng iba ang
adhikain nating magkaroon ng ugaling di manglamang sa kakayahan ng iba - -
babae man o lalaki. (EPS-I DepEd, Butuan
City/PIA-Agusan del Norte)
Tagalog News: Paghahanda ng bansa sa sakuna mas
mataas kaysa karaniwan
Ni David M. Suyao
AGUSAN DEL SUR, Hunyo 30 (PIA) - Ang paghahanda
ng bansa sa sakuna ay mas mataas kaysa karaniwan, ito’y sinabi ng isang opisyal
ng Palasyo noong Linggo.
Sa reaksyon ni Presidential Communication
Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma, Jr sa ang isang ulat mula sa
United Nations na nagbibigay ng grado sa Pilipinas sa pagitan ng 6 at 7, kung
saan 10 ang pinakamataas.
“Siguro naman maituturing na rin na above
average kahit na sabihing sixth or seventh. Ibig sabihin, hindi naman po tayo
naging malamya sa ating pagtugon sa mga hamon na ‘yan,” sabi ni Coloma sa isang
pakipanayam sa pamamagitan ng radyo dzRB Radyo ng Bayan.
Ang representante ni UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-Moon na si Margareta Wahlston gumawa ng pag-aaral tungkol sa kapabilidad ng
Pilipinas.
Ang Pilipinas ay matatagpuan sa Pacific ring of
fire kung saan karamihan sa mga bulkan ay aktibo; ito ay nasa typhoon belt din kung saan karaniwang may 20 bagyo na
dumadaan taon-taon at ito ay may fault lines din na dahilan ng lindol.
Sabi ni Coloma na ang pamahalaan ay patuloy na
gumagawa ng paghahanda at pagsasanay ng publiko kung papano ihanda ang kanilang
sarili sa panahon ng sakuna.
“Matibay po ang paninindigan ng ating Pangulo na
ang kinakailangan nating itatag ay ‘yung mga disaster resilient communities.
Hindi na dapat maulit ‘yung itinuturing niyang vicious cycle of destruction and
reconstruction. Dapat ay matigil na ang aspeto ng destruction sa pamamagitan ng
pagtatag ng mga mas matibay na komunidad,” dagdag pa niya.
Sa Metro Manila, ang Metro Manila Development
Authority ay palaging nagsasagawa ng pagsasanay kung ano ang gagawin kapag may
lindol.
“Iba na po kasi ang maging handa para kapag
dumating ang panahon—huwag naman sanang pahintulutan ng Poong Maykapal—ay mas
mataas na po ang antas ng kahandaan ng mga mamamayan,” sabi ni Coloma.
(DMS/PIA-Agusan del Sur)
