July 30, 2015
FOLLOWING the Metro Manila-wide earthquake drill on Thursday, Senator Loren Legarda urged her colleagues to pass a measure seeking to require monthly emergency drills, particularly in education and health care institutions.
“The regular conduct of fire and earthquake drills would effectively instill disaster preparedness in our citizens. School and health facilities, aside from being shelter for the vulnerable – children, sick and elderly – are critical public infrastructures, especially in times of disaster when victims need emergency refuge, services and medical […]
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July 30, 2015
Senator Loren Legarda invites everyone to visit the National Museum to view and observe the Mat and Basket Weaving Demonstrations featuring weavers from the MIMAROPA Region.
For this weekend, August 1 and 2, 2015, weavers from Palawan will demonstrate mat and basket weaving at the Reception Room, 4th Floor, National Museum of Anthropology (formerly Museum of the Filipino People), Old Finance Building, Rizal Park, Manila. Weaving demonstration is at 11:00 am to 12:00 nn and 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm.
This […]
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July 30, 2015
ILOILO CITY, Philippines — Households belonging to Indigenous People or Ips, who are living in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA) could now avail themselves of the National Health Insurance Program benefits from the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation.
These IPs are covered by the modified conditional cash transfer, or the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development-6.
The MCCT program was designed to reach out to families who are poor and more vulnerable and disadvantaged but […]
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July 30, 2015
The Senate on Wednesday approved on third and final reading a bill that will strengthen the conservation of 97 protected areas in the country.
Sen. Loren Legarda hailed the passage of the Expanded National Integrated Protected Areas System Act of 2015 (Enipas), of which she was the principal sponsor in 2013.
“We are a step closer to the finish line. Through this measure, local communities and stakeholders will be able to do more to participate in the management and protection of […]
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July 30, 2015
MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE – 11:39 a.m.) Senator Loren Legarda urged concerned government agencies Thursday to probe attempts to close down tribal schools in Mindanao as a prominent university called on its community to “send help” of a church in Davao City where hundreds of lumadhave sought refuge from militarization.
While acknowledging the need for government to address the problems of insurgency and terrorism, including the monitoring of groups suspected of links or advocating support for armed groups, Legarda said this should not […]
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