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Sunday, January 19, 2003
Dalaguete Silaw program holds ‘Pamasko sa Pasko’
Rice, canned sardines and noodles from the local government unit of Dalaguete and used clothing from the Department of Social Welfare and Development 7 were given as “pamasko” to the 488 member families of the Social Integration for the Low and the Weak (Silaw) sa Paglaum Program in the Municipality of Dalaguete last Dec. 23, 2002.
The distribution was held in three parish churches: San Guillermo de Aquitana in barangay Poblacion, Santa Monica in barangay Cawayan and San Isidro Labrador in barangay Mantalongon.
Headed by Dalaguete MSWD officer Evelyn Sarmago, Silaw staff Joenah Genoso, Sangguniang Bayan member and ECD action officer Milagros Llanos and barangay affairs consultant Lamberto Carungay, 153 families from eight barangays (Caliongan, Consolacion, Balud, Sacsac, Obong, Cor, Mananggal and Jolomaynon), 102 families in five barangays comprising the Santa Monica Parish (Lumbang, Tuba, Lanao, Banhigan and Panas) and 233 families in the 13 upland barangays (Ablayan, Manlapay, Dugyan, Nalhub, Maloray, Salug, Langkas, Tabon, Dumalan, Caleriohan, Bulak, Babayongan and Catolohan) received the “bundles of joy.
The social services and poverty alleviation campaign is one of the thrusts of Mayor Ronald Allan Cesante for Dalaguete to become “The Growth Central of the South.
Nominated by the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (Rafi) as an Outstanding Local Government Organization CY 2002, Silaw has been conceptualized to enhance the capabilities of the “ultra-poor “population in the municipality to become self-propelling enabling them to provide their families with the basic needs, Dr. Carlo Bejarasco, former special assistant for Silaw said.
Silaw has five major components: education and literacy, health and sanitation, nutrition and social welfare, livelihood and economic development, and early childhood development (ECD) in Dalaguete.
It has been supporting 1,383 elementary and high school students; organized adult education classes (non-formal education); chicken, swine and seeds dispersal; provided daycare centers, barangay health stations and midwives to the beneficiary barangays; and has provided Philhealth insurance to Silaw members since 1999.
(January 19, 2003 issue)
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