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MAITUM, Sarangani (November 12, 2008) – The number of young readers in the villages is growing with book donations from non-government organizations, giving children the opportunity to enhance their learning and reading skills. These children are taught to read today and become leaders tomorrow. (Photo by Afren de Guzman/MAITUM INFORMATION OFFICE)
General Santos City is known by a number of nicknames. Tuna Town, because it is the Philippine City that is really the home of the Tuna Fishing industry in the country. I remember when I first went to General Santos in 1990, it was commonly known as “The Boom City of the South” because things [...]
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Members of the parent-teacher community association (PTCA) of Subah Elementary School and barangay officials unload books and multimedia equipment from a pump boat in the remote municipality of Hadji Panglima Tahil, Sulu. The PTCA acquired the learning aids by raising funds and applying for an educational matching grant from USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao [...]
KIAMBA, Sarangani (November 11, 2008) – Vice Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon (2nd from right) and Mayor Rommel Falgui (center) turn over computer sets from Congressman Erwin Chiongbian to Salakit Elementary School, M. Quinto Elementary School and Tamadang Primary School represented by head teacher Lilia Fantone (extreme left), at the municipal hall on November 4. A [...]
MAITUM, Sarangani (November 11, 2008) – Patupat and tinudok are among the variety of kakanin displayed during the 6th Kakanin Festival and 22nd Barangay Fiesta of Poblacion (more popularly known as Malalag). Patupat is rice cake sweetened with raw sugar and wrapped in young coconut leaves while tinudok looks like a barbeque made [...]
MALUNGON, Sarangani (November 11, 2008) – Grade 2 pupils entertain guests with the folk dance “Pasomina de Sorsogon” at the launching ceremony of Quality Education for Sarangani Today’s (QUEST) Program “As A Filipino-Developmental Reading, UnionBank’s Gift to the Filipino Child” Monday, November 10, in Malandag gymnasium. (Photo by Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
MALUNGON, Sarangani (November 11, 2008) – Maria Gonzalez Goolsby (4th from right), UnionBank’s Executive Director of Philanthropy and Corporate Social Responsibility, turns over her authored Educational Learning System “As A Filipino” to Mayor Reynaldo Constantino at the launching ceremony Monday, November 10. “As A Filipino-Developmental Reading, UnionBank’s Gift to the Filipino Child”, which pilots in [...]
Aurelia Micko, USAID Philippines energy and environment deputy chief, shows to Muslim children in Buldon town in Shariff Kabunsuan their pictures on November 7, 2008 after the launching of 7.4 million peso worth of micro-hydro power facility put up by AMORE, a USAID and DOE funded program, at the former stronghold of the country’s largest [...]
Young people of the Batumanga Seaweed Growers Association and the Salisit Multi-purpose Cooperative, both composed of MNLF former combatants and their families, spend part of their weekend helping pack abalone juveniles or “spats” into sawed-off PVC pipes for transport to the co-ops’ underwater cages in Panglima Sugala, Tawi-Tawi. The ex-combatants, who have been trained in [...]
An old woman checks some christmas lantern displayed at the Agdao market in Davao City. Lantern vendors blamed the ‘hard times’ that resulted to the decline of their sales this year. They also said that only few lantern vendors this year compared to last year due to the price hike of their raw materials. AKP [...]
Buldon, Shariff Kabunsuan—For the past decades, the rushing gray-green waters of the Kumaguingking river has gone untapped. The local people do not have any inclination that the same river could generate electricity for a thousand homes and end the years of darkness that enveloped their villages.
This lack of knowledge was borne from the remote location [...]
A vendor assembles a star-shaped skeleton of Christmas lantern at his stall in Agdao market, Davao City. Lantern vendor blamed the ‘hard times’ that resulted to the decline of their sales this year. They also said that only few lantern vendors this year compared to last year due to the price hike of their raw [...]
ALABEL, Sarangani (November 8, 2008) – A former private resort here has grown into a world-class resort and a landmark in Sarangani’s tourism landscape.
Started as a rest house for businessman Marfenio Tan’s family about 10 years ago, Isla Parilla is now an “AA” class resort.
A resort within a man-made island, Isla Parilla has 24-hour room [...]
Residents of the mining affected community from barangay Macambol, Mati, Davao Oriental and support groups during the launching of the report “Kept in the Dark,” which was produced by UK-based Catholic Agency for Overseas Development along with Legal Rights nd Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan (LRC-KsK). The report, which was launched on Thursday November [...]
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