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social protection in the province. Tse said with the


information that they gathered, it is possible to provide policy or implement projects of different convergence initiatives to address poverty in the province.


Among other requirements, the Pantawid Program gives money to the beneficiaries to keep their children in school. However, some 22,231 children have either dropped out of school or have failed to attend at least 85 percent of their classes, said Tse.


that 936 children are working as house or farm helpers even at their young age and 56 taking care of their young siblings. It is also recorded that from the number of beneficiaries, 35 kids get pregnant early and 30 are living-in as husband and wife.


Some 908 children listed, have stopped schooling due to distance of the schools from their house.


“Some children said they walked four hours going up and down hills to reach the school that made them too tired or found it difficult to continue schooling,” she said.


The data also showed HOUSEWIVES....FROM P. 5


up, you could poke the moon with little effort.


Most wait in vain. After a nail-biting frenzy trying to decide whether it is diarrhea or heart attack that you are having, the dreaded “sold-out” announcement comes to your screen. You could almost hear the collective moan of despair across the world because it is one which echoes your own. No one knows exactly how the system works when it comes to determining who gets into the ticketing site first, and who gets left out in the cold. Some say that it is on first-come first-served basis so ARMYs do online camping days in advance.


Others say it is in the speed of your Internet connection, or the number of gadgets you have with you (to increase your chances), all logged into the site. I had four phones on data


friend managed to squeeze in, and bought me a ticket to the Singapore concert. She had around her one PC, two laptops, an iPad, and three or four cellphones. ARMY dedication. (My husband would rather call it insanity.) So for the March 2019


Luckily, a new ARMY


concert series in Hong Kong, I went into war all weapons ablaze. I rented four PCs in the newest and fastest Internet café for gamers that I could find


For now so m e LGUs have introduced interventions especially in the field of sanitation, to provide beneficiaries access to sanitary toilets in each household like Mabinay, Manjuyod, Tayasan, Jimalalud, La Libertad, Siaton, Tanjay City, and Pamplona, said Tse. They are trying to achieve “zero open defecation” to address health problems and reduce medical expenses among the households, she said. Tse said poverty is a complex challenge that needs convergence strategies to improve the well-being of the people in the province. (jct/PIA7- NegOr)


and oh, boy! how I suffered, or rather, how my eardrums and sensibilities suffered.


when I tried to secure tickets for Singapore. I never got through. So there must be some truth to that.


after my hysterectomy, I entered a world I never knew existed. People my age, have you ever been in an Internet café where teenage online gamers compete fiercely as to who could shout and curse the loudest? Believe me, this TI, the only youngster in that bunch, went catatonic with shock. But my “torture” paid off. I got tickets not only for myself but for three other ARMY friends. In the month of March in Hong Kong , I reunited with an old high school classmate who flew in from Texas with her two daughters just for the concert. Others from my ARMY group arrived from Canada, Hawaii, and California. It was a joyous reunion for people who never met each other before. Sitting back and watching me from afar, I see a new, happier me. I am clearly not there yet, but I have started to shed the useless baggage that I have been carrying around for years.


Fresh out of the hospital


is fraught with difficulties but I have a support system… sisters from all over the world who share my passion, and who could empathize because they, too, are fighting their own battles.


This journey of loving myself


And we have our boys of BTS to thank for all these. Borahae!


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was very happy when I heard there is a proposed ordinance calling for the provision of homes and lots for the hundreds of local government employees. If I’m not mistaken, the proposal was pitched in by City Councilor Manuel Patrimonio. If this proposal will be passed and funded, the woes and burden of many government employees who do not own houses will be alleviated.


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This proposal is a product of Councilor Patrimonio’s observation that there are a number of employees who are just renting their domiciles for a long time now, or those who may have constructed their own houses but do not own the parcels of land their houses were built on. Under this ordinance,


government payable over a specific period of time including penalty for delayed payments.


Based on the proposed ordinance, lots awarded i n c ludi ng any fi xed improvements therein shall not be transferable, except on the following circumstances: by way of hereditary succession; execution of a Deed of Absolute Sale between the City Government and the beneficiary-awardee upon full payment of the purchase price; any contract entered into by the beneficiary-


the lands purchased, or will be purchased by the City government, can also be utilized as housing sites for regular/permanent employees.


Those landless who are presented renting houses and apartments will be the first priority while the second priority are those who own houses but whose lands are not their own as certified by the Office of the Assessor and Registry of Deeds.


beneficiaries will be paying a monthly amortization to be collected by the city


In the scheme, the


awardee for the purpose of selling, transferring, renting or otherwise disposing of his rights on the awarded housing unit or home lot to another party, without the written consent of the City Government, shall be declared as null and void and if beneficiary-Awardee fails to occupy the awarded housing unit or home lot after the lapse of three months from the time of the award, shall be considered to have forfeited his/her right to said housing unit or home lot. In a nutshell, I believe this is a good idea.


Owning one’s own home has been an elusive dream of every City Hall worker. I would say, this might just be the solution that many


Some good news


people have been waiting for to all the cumbersome obligations they have in paying monthly rents, in dealing with inconsiderate landlords, and their being in constant fear that they might be evicted and forced to leave due to delayed payments (although the law says a landlord cannot just immediately evict a tenant as there is a process to follow). The embarrassment of facing a pompous and a very insensitive landlady is always a moment that all tenants try to avoid. I’m just wondering about a few things – has this idea been actually proposed in the Council? Or it’s still a “seed idea” that needs drafting? If I remember right, during the time of former Mayor Chiquiting Sagarbarria, there was also the talk of providing homes for the employees but it never materialized. A search for a location was conducted but the idea did not bear fruit. So I’m hoping that this proposed concept of Councilor Patrimonio will really bear fruit for the good of the people.


As French philosopher Gaston Bachelard once said, “The house shelters day- dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” That’s how important a house is, and moreso when you actually own it.


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