There is merit to Sen. Cynthia Villar’s proposal to redefine and redirect the targets of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps from health and education to livelihood and education. In redirecting the 4Ps target from health…
DENR Secretary Gina Lopez hit the ground running by meeting the agency officials together with the civil society leaders upon assuming her post. This was a first in the history of the department and was widely lauded.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
