In Cebu City, ‘rangers’ tapped to keep rivers clean

Philippine Daily Inquirer 10/19/2022

CEBU CITY—A team of “river rangers” will soon be deployed by the local government to ensure that the city’s waterways will be free of trash. Raquel Arce, head of Cebu City’s Prevention, Restoration, Order, Beautification and Enhancement…

45 tons of garbage collected in Cebu City during weekend coastal, river cleanup

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/05/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Volunteers collected 45 tons of garbage from at least 19 waterbodies in Cebu City during the coastal and river cleanup held on Saturday, December 4. It was already the 6th cleanup organized by…

Food for work in Cebu City, open for street dwellers and volunteers

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/30/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —The Cebu City Department of Public Services (DPS) launched on Sunday, July 28, 2019, the food-for-work program for street dwellers and volunteers to help clean-up the city’s rivers. The program aims to help street…

Cebu’s Cenro goes all out with river cleanup drive

Delta Dyrecka C. Letigio 02/02/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines–The Cebu City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) envisions that in six months, Cebu City’s upstream river systems will be reclassified to “Class C” or rivers safe for bathing. This was the pronouncement of…

Online challenge draws 80 for Guadalupe River cleanup

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/22/2015

About 80 people hauled out over 130 sacks filled with garbage from the Guadalupe River in a cleanup initiative called “Maghisgot Ta Ug Panglimpyo sa Suba Bay” yesterday. Local and foreign students, working volunteers, the Naval Forces…

2 RIVER CHAMPS

Eileen G. Mangubat, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/11/2015

                Senator Drilon to support  cleanup of  Cebu city rivers ‘one at a time’; Rama welcomes help after special meeting in  Manila Senate President Franklin Drilon has agreed to support…

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