September 3, 2021
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Regional Office 6 released a total of Php43,946,432 livelihood assistance to members of the informal sector in the Province of Antique.
DOLE-6 through its Antique Field Office (AnFO), assisted 2,191 beneficiaries living along the shorelines and in the mountains of 13 municipalities of the province.
“We double our efforts in reaching the members of the marginalized sector in the remote areas of the province. Their location and economic situation are most fitting of an assistance […]
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September 2, 2021
The mission to promote Filipino indigenous culture and heritage goes on for the award-winning documentary series Dayaw with the launch of its 11th season on ANC, the ABS-CBN News Channel.
A production of ANC and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Dayaw has been documenting the lifeways, traditions, practices and culture of the different indigenous peoples since 2015.
Still leading the way for Dayaw is its host, three-term senator, and now House deputy speaker and Antique congresswoman, Loren Legarda, […]
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September 2, 2021
Rep. Loren Legarda has made a promise to herself to help financially empower all 68 rural communities that have been featured on the award-winning documentary series that she hosts, “Dayaw.”
In an online conference recently, Loren said she’s exhausting all means, from legislative to grassroots marketing, just to provide assistance to tribal and non-tribal folk in far-flung places who continue to preserve our cultural heritage.
Loren is also the poster girl of indigenous clothing, trinkets and accessories. She wears them during both […]
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September 1, 2021
Privilege Speech of Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda
The State of Environment amid the Pandemic
01 September 2021
Mr. Speaker, distinguished colleagues in Congress:
It has been over a year since the pandemic broke and put the whole world into lockdowns, forcing businesses to close and billions of people to suffer. Our health systems were ill-prepared to suppress COVID-19 from claiming the lives of over 4.3 million people worldwide, of which over 29,300 are fellow Filipinos.
More than a year later, or one national […]
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September 1, 2021
The Philippines received its first-ever award from the prestigious global platform Venice Biennale for the exhibition Structures of Mutual Support curated by Framework Collaborative (GK Enchanted Farm community and Architects Sudarshan V. Khadka Jr. and Alexander Eriksson Furunes).
The country’s national participation at the Venice Biennale is a collaborative undertaking of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), and the Office of Deputy Speaker and Antique Congresswoman Loren Legarda.
Out of 60 National Participations, […]
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