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May
29
LP City Hall gives 4,000 scholarships
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Las Piñas City Mayor Vergel ‘Nene’ Aguilar announced the opening of another 2,000 scholarship slots in the information technology courses for the city’s less privileged students who could not be accommodated in private universities/colleges.
The Dr. Filemon C. Aguilar Information Technology Training Institute (DFCAITTI), a brainchild and priority project of Mayor Aguilar, offers free one-year courses on Web Development, Graphic Design and Animation, Networking Professional and Programming to qualified city high school graduates.
The IT scholarship is in addition to the four-year free college education being afforded to another 2,000 poor but deserving students at the Dr. Filemon C. Aguilar Memorial College (DFCAMC) every school year since its operation in 1998.
The 25-classroom state-of-the-art IT school will benefit 60 percent (60%) of the total 5,674 public high school graduates last school year to provide them with opportunities for a free and quality training ground for its students to become the best IT professionals not only locally, but globally.
The scholarship is Mayor Aguilar’s commitment to provide grants and assistance to less privilege but deserving students in order to meet the city’s goal of total literacy and livelihood prospects through equal opportunity in education.
Since 1995, provision of free, quality and accessible public school education has been the priority of Mayor Aguilar from pre-school pupils up to college. At present more than 60 day care and feeding centers were established in the city’s 20 barangays which is aimed to provide a better head start for young children.
Despite the limited resources however, around P900 million annually, Las Piñas is committed to implement the construction of modern school buildings and classrooms and has been prioritizing budget for the educational grant to less privileged students.
Meanwhile, city schools superintendent Dr. Norma Ablan Adamos reported to the mayor that necessary preparations for the opening of the school year is now in place to ensure an orderly enrollment in all levels. The city engineering office has been fast tracking repairs and improvements of roads and school buildings as part of the preparations. (END)
May
29
Project FRESH on in Paranaque
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In line with the government’s program promoting food production and nutrition, residents of Brgy. San Dionisio in Parañaque City will be participating in a vegetable growing contest that seeks to employ the skills that they have learned from a project called FRESH or “Making Food Go Further: Mitigating Hunger and Ensuring Future Resilience and Stronger Households (FRESH) in the Philippines” on July 12, 2010.
The project will be undertaken by Kraft Philippines and the Save The Children Foundation in collaboration with the Parañaque City Government Parañaque City Government through its Agriculture Office, Health Office and its Nutrition Division, Planning Office, Parañaque DSWD, Youth and Sports Development Office; San Dionisio and BF Homes Barangay Health Units; BF and San Dionisio Barangay Government Units; and the Department of Education Division of Parañaque City Schools.
FRESH was started in Parañaque and two other pilot provinces in June last year. From these three areas, the project is expected to reach out to some 50,000 most vulnerable children and families in the next three years to reduce hunger and malnutrition in the country.
Project activities are aimed at helping improve health and nutrition in children as well as provide necessary skills to older family members to sustain food security. According to the Save the Children Foundation, the contest is a means to jumpstart food production at home, school and community to address the nutritional requirement of children and their families and how far they are going to sustain it.
The contest will be divided into individual, group and school categories. Those in the individual category can plant their vegetables in any available space in their yard or homes while those in the group category will make their gardens in open public land designated by the San Dionisio Barangay Government Unit as school category can improve on their existing plots in their respective campuses with more volume and variety.
The contest will run from July to November 2010 and judging will be made in three phases: Phase 1 will be based on the variety of vegetables planted; their nutritional value; level of participation of members and use of organic fertilizers. Phase 2 will be based on the type of innovation, technology and materials used by participants including use of receptacles and recycled materials in planting and in schools, the use of these vegetables in supplemental feeding sorties. Phase 3 will be based on the commitment of the participants to sustain the project. It will also be a gauge to determine if they consumed what they raised and if they purchased the materials they needed or produced their own to sustain it.
“This project is not only a way for realizing money savings and food security but also a means to promote “eating vegetables for balanced diets” to combat malnutrition in children. It is our hope that after five months of working together and seeing the benefits of the project, the participants will continue to tend their vegetable gardens.” Parañaque City Mayor Jun Bernabe said. (Public Information Office)
May
29
Parañaque residents congratulate City Mayor Florencio Bernabe, Jr. (left) for his win in the May 2010 elections for his third term of public office during a victory party at the Tahanan Village in Brgy. BF Homes. Mayor Jun Bernabe won over outgoing First District Representative Eduardo Zialcita and actor-comedian and former mayor Joey Marquez. (Public Information Office)
May
29
In preparation for the coming school year, the Parañaque City Government headed by Mayor Florencio Bernabe, Jr. recently donated painting materials to the DepEd Parañaque Division of City Schools for its “Brigada Eskwela” program. Despite the continued growth of the school population, Parañaque has not experienced any classroom congestion. The city has 41 public elementary and high school campuses, among them the 4 new four-storey school buildings which were built under the present administration. In photo: Mayor Jun Bernabe (center) with Parañaque National High School-Main Campus faculty members, PTCA officers and student volunteers. (Public Information Office)
May
25
Reelected Parañaque City Mayor Florencio Bernabe, Jr. shrugs off rumors about his death circulated by a rival political camp. In a recent conference, the mayor told the members of the media that he did not suffer a stroke and has a clean bill of health. Bernabe won a third term as the city’s mayor beating actor-comedian and former mayor Joey “Tsong” Marquez and outgoing Parañaque 1st District Congressman Eduardo “EDZA” Zialcita. In photo: Mayor Jun Bernabe showing media practitioners the funeral wreath and the mass card which were believed to have been sent to his residence by the camp of a defeated political opponent who cannot accept the outcome of the elections. (Public Information Office)
