Guv distributes goodies, starts program for women, children

Governor Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday and distributed Philhealth cards to indigents, launched a supplemental feeding program for malnourished children and a livelihood program for women in Tuburan.

“Ipadaplin ta ang pulitika kay ang mas importante karon mao ang pagtabang sa atong mga kaigso-onan nga mga ka bus,” Garcia said in her speech.
The governor's activity in the town, included the distribution of GSIS group accident insurance to barangay officials, tanods, lupon tagamapayapa, health workers, and day care workers. A firetruck and bags of cement were also turned over to the municipal government.

More than 200 toilet bowls were also given by the provincial government to intended beneficiaries.
Together with Vice Governor Gregorio Sanchez Jr and Tuburan Mayor Constancio Suezo, the governor signed a memorandum of agreement for the implementation of two programs in the town.

Provincial Board member Agnes Magpale said the Capitol's feeding program, known as Early Childhood Care Development Program, has been intended to address the town's malnutrition of children.

The Capitol had targeted to resolve malnourishment among the more than 20,000 children in day-care centers in 14 towns, one of which is Tuburan.
Day-care pupils of Tuburan, who attended the event, were given chocolate milk as part of their 120-day feeding scheme, which consists of daily fare of milk and hot meal.
Sanchez said that good governance of the present provincial administration is one way to combat poverty in the province.

The livelihood program for women, dubbed as Grameen for Women Empowerment Now or GWEN Project, was launched also to sustain the feeding program.
The GWEN project will help mothers avail themselves of small loans without the need of collateral. This has been patterned after the Grameen microcredit program in Bangladesh that opened credits to the poor to help them start livelihood for their source of income. – Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon/RAE