Mindanao Daily Lifestyle (February 3, 2015)

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Volume III, No. 196

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World’s largest Human Power Button in Marawi

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HE Bangsamoro women of Lanao del Sur and Marawi City have earned a spot today in the Guinness World of Record when 716 of them wearing the hijab participated in the Hijab Walk 2015 and then formed the Human Power Button sign. They beat the current record achieved in Canada which was around 360 participants.

The activity was held at the Provincial Gymnasium,

Provincial Capitol Complex, Marawi City with the theme “HIJAB WALK: Women’s Access to Livelihood Ay Karapatan”.

The guest of honor during the event was the First Lady of the Province of Lanao del Sur, Madam Raifa S. Rakiin-Adiong.

The activity started with a parade assembled outside of the Lanao del Sur Provincial Capitol Complex at 6:00 a.m. An hour after, the participants walked to the provincial gymnasium

where a short program followed at 8:00 a.m.

Supt.

Normillah Pangandaman of the Division 2, Department of Education, Lanao del Sur informed the participants of the significance of wearing the hijab.

S e cret ar y Sitt ie Jehanne E . Mu t i n o f t h e R e g i o n a l Commission on Bangsamoro Wo m e n ( R C B W- A R M M ) delivered the keynote message and Hadja Nabihah Noni Lao,

the Lanao del Sur Commissioner of the RCBW-ARMM, formally closed the program.

It was after the program when the participants formed the Human Power Button sign within four minutes.

The purpose of the activity was to highlight Muslim women’s e qu a l p ar t i c ip at i on i n t he political and equal development in the Bangsamoro. It also called for gender equality in the ARMM and the rest of the world.

The activity was spearheaded by the Regional Commission on Bangsamoro Women (RCBWARMM) in collaboration with the province of Lanao del Sur, national and local line agencies, NGOs, media, traditional leaders and religious sector.

G o v e r n o r M a m i nt a l A .

Adiong, Jr. of Lanao del Sur gave his full support to the event to ensure its success.

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Primavera’s La Rondine Hall now open for public use PRIMAVERA Residences Condominium Corporation officially opens to the public La Rondine Hall as a new venue in Cagayan de Oro catering to parties, events, training and learning sessions, among others.

La Rondine Hall is also a venue for art appreciation, providing an avenue for local artists to showcase their art works.

Formerly Primavera’s multi-purpose hall, La Rondine has been a venue for social

gatherings, trainings, seminars and art exhibits. Now that it has opened its doors to the public, more people can experience Primavera as an alternative venue in uptown Cagayan de Oro. “La Rondine which is Italian for Barn Swallow is a bird that returns to Italy during spring season, or Primavera. It is mainly for this reason that we opted to use the name,” Italpinas CEO and Arch. Romolo Nati explained.

La Rondine is a migrant bird that is

known to gracefully dart over fields and open water. With its shiny cobalt blue top mixed with tawny feathers underneath, this agile flier comes back to Italy at Primavera, when the countryside is brimming with colors and nature is at its best.

Provided with a 90 sq. m. floor area and decorated with a variety of artworks (for display and for sale), La Rondine Hall is suited for versatile events such as birthday parties, learning sessions, yoga parties to mention

some.

“We offer our clients with an affordable deal of P750 per hour. This is inclusive of hall, electricity charges, and maintenance personnel

assistance. There are no corkage fees also,” Jelly Galleto, Primavera Residences Property Manager said.

La Rondine Hall can accommodate up to 80-

100 people.

To know more about Primavera’s La Rondine Hall, call 088-8808001 or visit www. primaveraresidences. com. PR

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Gingoog law-makers declare 2015 as city’s emerald year

By Buboy Pabia Media Bureau Chief

GINGOOG City’s legislative body under its presiding officer Vice Mayor Erick Genrales Canosa has declared 2015 as Emerald Jubilee Year for Gingoog being its 55th year of becoming a city charter through Sangguniang Panlungsod Resolution No. 2015-11.

“Being chosen as the chair of the tourism committee, I have moved for the approval, adoption and enactment of the aforesaid resolution after I am reminded by the request from the City Tourism Council through its chairman Retired Judge Potenciano de los Reyes, Jr., concerning its

proposal to this august body to declare the year 2015 as city’s emerald jubilee, hence, an appropriation measures should also be enacted to help finance the said occasion”, manifests City Councilor Melleanette “Mai-mai” Mercado.

“As to its appropriation, may I inform every legislator that an allocation was already provided under the 2015 City’s Annual Budget for all tourism activities and for other significant celebrations, therefore, there would be no need for another appropriation in this regard”, deliberates City Councilor Miguel Paderanga.

Mayor Guingona has been very grateful to the

lawmaking body for its undying support to her administration. “With the assistance of all agencies both in public and private sectors, I am very optimistic that we will celebrate this emerald jubilation with greener hope, that is, abundance for our people, blessing of good health, and safety in all our undertakings and forthcoming celebrations.

Like the green-color of this gemstone, may we embrace the bountiful characteristic of emerald to our greener nature, to our healthier family and more progressive city”, she optimistically envisions.

The city’s chief has encouraged every Gingoognon to recall and re-visit Gingoog’s history and culture in order to appreciate and learn more the legendary values being imparted by its leaders who ably governed this city 55 years ago. “Let us ponder on the best practices in the past and apply them at present in order to obtain a better place to live with and a more productive society to cherish as we enter this year of emerald jubilee”, Mayor Marie concludes.

The Success Story of the Most Significant Change (MSC) in the School and in the Community through our Partners: GREENMINDS, Inc., and PRIME

By Abraham Q. Estojero T-I / OIC, Gupaco Elementary School

Gupaco Elementary School is situated in the far - flung area of barangay Sinuda, Kitaotao, Bukidnon. Gupaco community is one of the farthest sitios in the said barangay that has a total distance of 12 kilometres away from the national road and the only fastest means of transportation is through horseback riding other than hiking towards the sloping and mountainous site which could be unconventional choice to get there.

The school has a complete elementary where most of the learners are belonging to Matigsalug tribe. It has five (5) assigned teachers coming from different places in the province of Bukidnon. The people living in Gupaco is known as “preserver of Matigsalug cultural heritage and practices” wherein fact, it has its own form of government based on their cultural milieu that can execute cultural practices in relations to its distinct cultural justice, traditions, and other related Matigsalug identities.

Thus, under the Sinuda ancestral domain, with due respect to the higher datu and to the government officials, Gupaco people are also known as law-abiding citizen of the country.

Gupaco Elementary School promotes and values the function of life in the society. It needs other hands to build and envision quality education, and through the help of its partners in the community and its external linkages, the school planned, implemented, and sustained the basic needs of its immediate concerned clienteles, ‘the learners.’

In 2011, Gupaco Elementary School was blessed with so many opportunities and outpouring projects, programs, and activities implemented by its innumerable linkages. To mention: GreenMinds, Inc., an NGO and the Peoples Response to Indigenous and Muslim Education (PRIME). It was a right time and God’s blessings when these major partners in the school and in the community brought a wide perspective that totally developed an ideal school for IP children and ideal community for IP people.

By looking into the needs of the community and of the school, Greenminds gathered the IP people and the DepEd teachers to collaborate each other’s responsibility to establish projects and programs to ensure its usability among the people in Gupaco.

At first, it was just a vision, but along the way, as one of the witnesses, I can recognized those projects that were successfully implemented by these very kind people and even until today, they did not stop extending their assistance and services to the community and to the school.

In fact, these projects were already established and functioned according to its purpose. One of these projects is the source of portable water system. Through this, people would no longer go to the river bank just to fetch water for their personal needs. Often, it took them an hour just to get there aside from being so risky. From then on, residents in this sitio can now drink safe portable water by just simply getting it from the four lines of faucets distributed from the different areas of Gupaco community with a bathtub for water reservation purposes.

Another project is the community shed built by the Greenminds for everybody with conjoint effort between the DepEd and the community. This is an initiative in order to gather people for meetings, trainings, and aside from serving a home for many visitors who wish to come to sitio Gupaco. It also serves as classroom for ALS learners and at the same time the center of the day-care learners. The shed has an ideal comfort room with comfortable kitchen zone provided with adequate utensils and other domestic stuffs exactly just like you are in your own home. It has a storage room for agricultural purposes and other farm related equipment. Atop of the shed is the second floor where blankets, medications, emergency kits and other things are provided for use by the visitors to make sure

they feel comfortable while staying at the sitio.

Due to the absence of electrical mechanism, our partner – the Greenminds provided us with the solar light. Through this, we can use the shed even during night time if paper works in school need immediate attention. Since Gupaco people is particular to farming as their means of livelihood and their means of work, Greenminds provided them with solar dyer letting their grains of corns, abaca hemps and peanuts be dried up before selling and marketing.

Several trainings were also conducted and held in the community and some of these trainings were; Sustainable Agricultural Land Technology (SALT), Nursery Management, Vermi Composting, Aquaculture and Establishment, Pond Establishment Training, COMDEV hands Social Preparation, and Homebased Emergency Assistance and Response Training (HEART). With these, the IP people were guided with the different skills for a living and meaningfully if their individual potentials are ready to come out from their own shell of abilities acquired out from the trainings attended, they would be able to gain adequate living for a lifetime.

Our partner- the Greenminds was cognizant about the things the school is deficient. As for emphasis, Greenminds was able to build two water catchments that could be useful for drinking and many other purposes. Hence, as a teacher, it would bring me a feeling of comfort and even to the rest of the teachers.

More importantly, the Greenminds as our partner is linking other group of people who are willing to help our pupils on their informative learning. Through them, the school was provided with plenteously number of books, teachers’ manuals, story books and even toys for the preschoolers. Not so long ago, I was so ever grateful of Greenminds team in responding positively to my request for the flagpole materials.

And now, the school is utilizing a concrete flagpole.

The school is also experiencing one of a kind opportunity as being one of the few recipients of the PRIME. Not all of the schools in Bukidnon division received assistance from PRIME. The PRIME funded the school in putting up projects based on the school’s present situation and where our school is striving for.

Way back in 2011, the PRIME started to discharge financial funds to the school. The first released was intended for ‘educational resolves’ by purchasing laptop, digital camera, materials for story books reproduction, heavy duty printer and a lot more. Essentially, these gadgets helped to fasten the big books and small books into 1:1 ratio innovation.

Using these technologies, it would take convenient time and hustle - free feeling on the part of the teachers for these ultimate reasons that these technologies process the paper so fast and smoothly for just a few hours in reproducing sufficient small and big books and other related documents the school is needed.

The PRIME as our benefactor provided the school with two horses and one carabao that could be used for transporting our goods to and from our school location. These animals helped us largely to earn additional income in the school by just letting the animals be borrowed by the commoners in the community for their farms harrowing at a minimal cost as stated in the resolution.

Many of our learners were unhealthy based on the nutritional status data tracked from the school.

Malnourishment is present and basically identified as one of the causes why many of our children remained less performing on their academics.

Since then, the school administrator together with the School Governing Council (SGC) and the teachers worked together to find alternative solution to make the children healthy and strong. One of the alternatives is the wise intervention program to fight against malnutrition known as Feeding Program. Henceforth,

several feeding programs were done and expectedly, positive results were attained.

The school is blessed with fertile soil which is favorable for the corn production, peanuts and other edible plants to grow well. The Lord blessed the school in chance to utilize the soil by planting corn, peanuts, camote and the area can even be expanded for other farm related crops. Again, the PRIME was out bursting enough fun to this desire when the school was granted financial assistance to spend and acquire corn seeds, fertilizers, organic materials which are adequate supplies for the corn plantation. The proceeds of this school farm were projected for feeding program sustainability.

Hand washing facilities like dental trough with four faucets and with tiled floors yielded a meaningful impact to the lives of our children.

The children could no longer go down to Gupaco River just to get water for tooth brushing and hand washing. Since then, it would be easy for us teachers to manage and to teach the pupils to do proper tooth brushing and proper hand washing outside the classroom, for the skill can be demonstrated actually. The PRIME as our partner was able to build two comfort rooms that can accommodate the school children and the teachers that are essential amenities for our personal comforts.

Being a classroom teacher, I saw the people in Gupaco who were less educated. Many of them were out of school youth (OSY) and out of school adults (Andragogy). In order for them to earn education once more, I volunteered as ALS implementer specifically in Accreditation and Equivalency level. Even with my full time schedule as regular multi grade teacher, I was then able to give them enough time for informal instruction during the late afternoon session. However, my ALS learners were in need of educational materials.

As a teacher, I also need enough references for my teaching and other educational supplies for my learners.

But because of the PRIME and the GREENMINDS connections, they provided us the supplies according to our needs.

Moreover, the PRIME was allocating funds for Arurug training.

Arurug is a lumad term of material found mainly in Gupaco to be used for many handicrafts like baskets, fruit trays, tables, chairs, and many more. This training was done in order to promote the Gupaco community in its finest potential on making their own handicraft products.

Finally, the PRIME was allocated enormous funds in building the study kiosk. This study kiosk has solar panel and heavy duty batteries that could be used during night time. The children are allowed to study inside this kiosk during silent and oral reading period. Teachers could gather the pupils for storytelling and other activities relevant to their learning abilities. During recess time and remedial classes, the study kiosk is a conducive and ideal place for children to learn because this kiosk was designed like their own home.

This success story is authentically true. The PRIME and the GREENMINDS are now part of our journey, though it took them too long in taking good care of the lumad people living at Gupaco, to the children and to the teachers in school, thus far, the greatest learning we ever gained from them is to become self - reliant and being independent. Dependability is transitory but being independent having all the skills acquired taught by our partners are worthwhile means of maturity even if the GREENMINDS and the PRIME are not there behind us, we can stand still and can continue to grow, sustain and develop the projects, programs, and activities they have started.

It is our deep gratitude and salutation to the GREENMINDS, Inc., and to the PRIME for all their commendable contributions by bringing the most significant change in the community, in general and Gupaco Elementary School, in particular.

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29 gifts 21 grams 4 minutes FROM the moment we are conceived, we are surrounded with numbers. They dictate our lives even before we’re born. “Your baby is due on the 21st,” “your baby has a twin sister,” etc. Once your baby is born, there are more numbers – the birth weight, the length, the head circumference. When your child starts nursery, you teach them to count from 1 to 3.

And so they’re introduced to the world of arithmetic all by themselves. Arithmetic – they will learn throughout these all their lives. Some who fall in love with arithmetic ultimately become accountants.

Others become economists.

A few become corrupt accountants and economists.

A few days ago, I was sipping cherry-flavored latte at Capricho Art Café which is located right beside Rodelsa Hall. While I was leisurely devouring the yummy sleepiness quencher, I was browsing at the magazines available at the café. There was this mag about Florida interior designing, there was this issue of Cosmopolitan. And there was Sharon (yes that cheesy Filipino women’s mag featuring your quintessential drama megastar). Sharon Cuneta narrated in one article how she came across the 29 gifts pay-it-forward

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concept. 29 Gifts is a global movement whose philosophy is to change the world one gift at a time. Practitioners of this notion will give one thing away each day for 29 days to a specific person. It may not be an expensive gift.

It can be a cute note reminding someone how you love her. Or it can be a puppy (if you’re recipient loves puppies). It may not even be tangible. A simple smile, your time, a kind word or two, a hug. All of these are meant to cherish one thing – the beauty of life. For human life is so short (we only have a lifespan of 100 years), we need to value its importance.

But not everybody dies old.

Some die unexpectedly like the two Hall of Justice employees who perished in the fire last Friday.

They say that as we die, our souls will leave our bodies.

Look at yourself in the mirror.

Yes you dear reader. What is your weight? Is it 150 pounds?

What about your soul? Can it be weighed too? In the early 20th century, there was a scientist by the name of Dr. Duncan MacDougall who attempted to show scientific proof of the existence of the tangibility of the human soul.

He did this by recording a loss of body weight immediately following death, using strict

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Fill in completely every rows, columns and diagonals of each puzzle without repitition

of the same digit.

CROSSWORD puzzle across 1. Vision 6. Body organ 11. Revive 12. Go in 13. Sick 14. Amphibian 16. Iron’s symbol 17. Calf meat 19. Music album 20. Vegetable 21. Plural ending 22. Append 24. Short 25. Eisenhower’s nickname 26. Drink with a straw 27. Staple food 29. Burning 30. Mother 32. Chemical ending 33. Greek letter 34. Blue-pencil

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scientific method. The result: a 21-gram discrepancy, representing the departure of the soul from the body.

Not all bodies can be subjected to Dr. MacDougall’s method however. When one dies by fire, the body shrinks dramatically. Four minutes can spell out the difference between life and death. It took four minutes for the Hall of Justice fire to spread.

It took four minutes for the victims to desperately seek shelter. It took four minutes for them to die. Yet not all four minutes is associated with death. Research shows it takes four minutes to make a first impression. It takes

The Chameleon

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four minutes to make love and culminate in climax. It’ll take four minutes for Stella to read this piece.

29 gifts 21 grams four minutes – these are just a few of the numbers in this great Arithmetic of Life.

Destiny Yesterday’s Answer

24. Mention 25. Solid water 26. As a result 27. Drizzles 28. Pakistan’s neighbor 29. Concealed 30. Marceau and colleagues 31. Be sorry 33. Animated 35. Ms. Moore 37. Mr. Affleck 38. _carte Yesterday’s Answer

Special Gospel of the day: Luke7:31-35(February3, 2015-Tuesday) Luke 7:31-35”And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

But wisdom is justified of all her children: St. Jerome Biblical Commentary page137”the people of the gospel are “childish in attitudes” and cannot be understood since they accused and commented both John the Baptist and Jesus Christ. In Latin terms, “argumentum adva culom” that means people are criticizing and opposing to the preachers.

There are times that we are like these people because if we are hurt

Biblical reflection

Bro. Edcel L. Closas

by the preaching, we automatically “attack” the preachers. Hebrews 12:25”See that ye refuse not him that speaketh.

For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape], if we turn away from him that [speaketh] from heaven. If you love your soul and willing to live in your eternal destiny, allow yourself to be feed by the words of God even how painful it is: Printing paid by: Neneth - Bobong Balino- Dr. Edith, PhDTony Jordan - CDO. St. Peter Calungsod, pray for us! #0928414949009279551247: Question – Prayer request: Please follow me “WORD ON FIRE” on CCTN channel 12-CDO @ 10 PM- Mondays, Tuesday @ 3:30 PM and 2:00 AM Sundays. God loves you!!!

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