Cebu City offers surrenderers option to make lives better

Nestle L. Semilla 07/23/2016

City Council: Rehabilitation and vocational training part of city’s intervention Drug users and pushers in Cebu City, who surrendered and heeded the Oplan Tokhang (Operation Toktok Hangyo) of the police, will be given a chance to make…

Livelihood, daycare building soon to rise in Lapu

Norman V. Mendoza 06/25/2016

A LIVELIHOOD training center and daycare building will soon be erected in Barangay Pajo, Lapu-Lapu City. Sen. Sonny Angara, assisted by Mayor Paz Radaza, Vice Mayor Marcial Ycong, Pajo Barangay Captain Junard “Ahong” Chan and barangay officials…

Inmates make life productive by recycling campaign tarps

06/16/2016

To make life more productive while in detention, the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) launched its bag-making program on Friday. A project of Gov. Hilario Davide III and his wife Jobel, tarpaulins used as campaign…

Livelihood programs eyed for affected families in Alegria

06/09/2016

Alegria Mayor Verna Magallon held a consultation with the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) and the provincial ecotourism department last Tuesday to discuss alternative livelihood plans and food-assistance programs for the families affected by the…

Capitol sponsors training for co-ops

06/02/2016

Cooperatives in southern Cebu got a needed boost as the Cebu Provincial government sponsored their mandatory training last weekend in Sibonga town. The two-day event, also supported by the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) and Sibonga Multi-Purpose Cooperative…

Capitol distributes 165 goats

05/19/2016

The Cebu Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) distributed 165 high breed goats to farmers across the province. Fifteen of the goats are males and 150 are females. The female goats were purchased from Masbate province at a cost…

Scavengers find hope in trash

05/17/2016

“ANG basura sa uban, among panginabuhian (Other people’s trash, is our source of livelihood).” Eduarda Morales, 43, a scavenger, underscored that there is really money in trash. Morales, from Barangay Umapad, Mandaue City, is one of the…

Demo farm opens in Lapu

Norman V. Mendoza 12/06/2015

A non-government organization recently opened a demonstration area for urban farming and other livelihood skills. The Mactan Urban Demonstration (MUD) farm, which is located along A. Tumulak Street, barangay Gun-ob, Lapu-Lapu City, stands on a 300-square-meter lot…

Elderly Davao native sells wares near plush hotel

08/17/2015

For 24 years, sidewalk vendor Francisco “Tatay” Acar sold cigarettes and candies to passersby near the Radisson Blu Hotel at the North Reclamation Area, Cebu City. At the end of the day, the 82-year-old Acar walks several…

Moalboal women weave mats for livelihood

PR 05/16/2015

Thirty farmer beneficiaries from Moalboal town in southwest Cebu attended a training on mat weaving and product development in barangay Tomonoy last April 14-17. The Cebu Provincial Agrarian Reform Office, together with the Department of Trade and…

Puto-sikwate sends 37 scholars to school

Apple Ta-as 12/23/2014

Before pancakes, bacons and eggs  became regular breakfast favorites, puto and sikwate were the morning mainstays in dining tables in Cebuano homes. Puto to the uninitiated is sticky rice cooked in coconut milk which is wolfed down…

PCA tie-up to open market for Mandaue coco waste products

Norman V. Mendoza 07/04/2014

Locally-made geo-nets and other coco waste products will soon have more clients to buy them in the local  market after the Mandaue Coco Waste Processing Center partnered with the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) to train the center’s…

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