E. Visayas towns avail financing from an anti-poverty initiative program
TACLOBAN CITY - All municipalities in Eastern Visayas are now listed as beneficiaries of the P4.2 billion National Community-Driven Development Program (NCDDP), a three-year period anti-poverty initiative prioritizing economically-depressed and typhoon-stricken areas.The new program,...
Carigara folks received housing kits from Japan-based group
CARIGARA, Leyte- Residents of various barangays of this town whose houses were damaged due to the onslaught of supertyphoon Yolanda, received shelter materials from a Japan-based group.The Peace Wind has a target 690 families...
Families living in tents wish to transfer in permanent homes
TACLOBAN CITY- Six months after supertyphoon Yolanda battered this city and other parts of the Visayas, thousands are still living under tents or temporary shelters.
And needless to say, the issue on shelter remain to...
PGPCI donated P2 million to help repair school, provide motorized bancas to Yolanda-hit fishermen
TACLOBAN CITY- The Philippine Geothermal Production Company, Inc. donated P2 million to the BDO Foundation to help repair a school building in Northern Samar damaged during the onslaught of supertyphoon Yolanda.
The move of the...
SM Foundation to repair the Tacloban City Hospital
TACLOBAN CITY- The SM Foundation is to rehabilitate the Tacloban City Hospital of this city as it recently signed a memorandum of agreement for this effect.
The Tacloban City Hospital is a 25-bed public hospital...
Special Report Villagers blame mining for poor health, unproductive farm lands
MACARTHUR, Leyte- Sixty-three year old Alfredo Cordero has been longing to go back to his farm and resume planting rice after supertyphoon Yolanda destroyed his crops last year but could no longer do so.
He...