DOST’s OL ... from page 19 After the OL Trap rollout in these barangays, no cases have been reported,thus far. Ballesteros and Claveria were declared “hotspots” for dengue cases, last year,with the former having 213 cases and the latter, 15 cases. To date, there have beenno dengue cases reported since the roll out.
With the decrease in dengue cases reported in the region, Dr. Labasan, Municipal Health Officer of Solano, Nueva Vizcaya, said that additional units areneeded for other barangays, as they found that mosquito eggs and larvae are “killedright then and there. It is the only way to stop the eggs
from hatching,” he added. This month, DOST and the Department of Education (DeEd) are workingtogether in providing OL Traps to elementary and secondary school, both public andprivate, that are located in hotspot areas of the country, Alamban added. (DOST/ PIA-10)
DSWD-10 constructs 69 KALAHI-CIDSS sub-projects costing Php66.59M by Apipa Bagumbaran CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, August 24, (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has constructed 69 community sub-projects in Northern Mindanao under the Kapit-Bisig Laban saKahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS) program. In today’s “Talakayan sa PIA,” held at the Philippine Information Agency(PIA), KALAHI-CIDSS Regional Infrastructure Assistant, Engr. Ruel Pagua, disclosed that 69 community-driven projects have been completed in six (6) municipalities of the region with a total grant of Php66,588,967.85. Particularly, the municipalities covered by the program include Kapatagan,Lala and Bacolod in Lanao del Norte and Concepcion, Lopez Jaena, and Sinacaban in Misamis Occidental, Pagua said. These projects include the construction of the wa-
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ter systems, concretedrainage system, road gravelling and concreting, pathways, suspension bridges and solar drier with warehouse and rice mill. Construction of classrooms, day care centers, health stations, seawall, dredging and slope protection were also among the projects constructed under KALAHI-CIDSS, he further said. These facilities, he added, were identified and completed by the beneficiaries through the communitydriven development processes of the KALAHI-CIDSS. A poverty alleviation
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program of the government, KALAHI-CIDSS aims to empower local communities through their enhanced participation in community projects that reduce poverty and is one of the largest poverty alleviation portfolios of the World Bank in the country. It also aims to reduce poverty by providing seed funds for community infrastructure, common service facilities and capability-building and improves local governance by providing training programs and capacity strengthening for localgovernment units (LGU) as local institutions. (PIA-10)
Wednesday, August 24, 2011