SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY EMPHASIZED THAT THE LACK OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PROGRAMS IN THE COUNTRY HAS POSED THREATS ON OUR VERY OWN SURVIVAL, LEAVING MANY FILIPINOS HUNGRY DESPITE THE ABUNDANCE OF NATURAL RESOURCES.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said that the recent committee hearing on the agreement to establish the Office of the Worldfish Center in the Philippines revealed that environmental degradation has taken its toll on the country’s food stability, noting recent reports that the […]
SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY CALLED FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF FILIPINOS’ FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY AND THE PROMOTION OF MICROENTERPRISES TO ALLEVIATE HUNGER AND POVERTY FOR THE LONG-TERM.
Citing Social Weather Station’s yearend survey results, Legarda said that 4.5 million families experienced hunger, while 9.1 million households considered themselves poor in December last year.
“To effectively reduce hunger and poverty, we have to provide our citizens the kind of support that will have long-term effects. In boosting food self-sufficiency, we improve people’s lives […]
Our reputation is an aspect of our lives that we continuously seek to protect, as public perception about us undeniably extends to our loved ones and our families. To extremists, a good name is regarded as more important than life itself, since the former leaves an imprint that lasts beyond the latter.
AS THE GOVERNMENT AND OTHER CONCERNED SECTORS UNITE TO HELP VICTIMS OF TROPICAL STORM SENDONG RECOVER FROM THE TRAGEDY, SENATOR LOREN LEGARDA TODAY STRESSED THAT REHABILITATION EFFORTS SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON BUILDING BACK A BETTER MINDANAO.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Climate Change, explained that it will not be enough to build people’s lives and communities to where they were before the disaster.
“We need to rebuild communities with the confidence that we are not rebuilding the risks […]
Forty-five days after Mindanao bore tropical storm Sendong’s whiplash of death and destruction, we witness severely affected cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan pick up and rebuild the pieces of their people’s shattered lives.
For days, if not weeks, headlines screamed the cold statistics on the dead and the missing and the confluence of factors that led to the unspeakable disaster.
