Aquino lauds compliance rate of Consumer Welfare Desks in addressing complaints
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resident Benigno S. Aquino III hailed the speed and effectiveness of the Consumer Welfare Desks (CWD) in addressing complaints, saying that this showed the high priority the CWDs give in upholding consumers’ rights.
The 39 chapters of the KBP nationwide will plant thousands of seedlings simultaneously nationwide in support of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ National Greening Program (NGP). The tree-planting activity, dubbed as “OplanBroadcastreeing,” is in line with the KBP’s partnership with the DENR to mobilize and organize its members for the nationwide tree-planting. KBP said that its tree-planting activity in the National Capital Region (NCR) will take place on Saturday at Barangay PintongBukawe, San Mateo, Friday, October 12, 2012
Rizal. The government’s National Greening Program, which was launched last year, targets to plant 1.5 billion tree seedlings in 1.5 million hectares nationwide from 2011 to 2016. Priority areas for planting include mangrove and protected areas, CBFM areas, ancestral domain areas, civil and military reservation areas, urban areas under the greening plan of LGUs, inactive and abandoned mine sites, and all other suitable public lands for reforestation. PND (co)
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