BORONGAN CITY-Following its successful rollout last year, the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 8 will continue to implement Project LAWA (Local Adaptation to Water Access) and BINHI (Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished) in Oras, Eastern Samar.
This initiative aims to boost community resilience to climate change, particularly food security, especially in anticipation of El Niño’s effects.
One significant outcome that came out of the project implementation in Oras was Happy Land, a dumpsite turned into a community garden created by the municipality of Oras to ensure food security in their community year round.
“Prior to the implementation of this program, this place used to be a dumpsite. It didn’t attract people, there were a lot of flies, it’s dirty. But now, through and inspired by the program Lawa at Binhi, through the collaboration of the local government of Oras and the barangays, we have converted this into what we call Happy Land,” Salvador Dalosa, municipal agriculturist of Oras, said.
He also shared that 42 barangays or almost a hundred percent of barangays in Oras have community gardens through Project Lawa at Binhi.
Dalosa also thanked the DSWD for boosting the community’s engagement on agricultural endeavors through Project LAWA at BINHI.
In addition, to ensure the success of the program’s implementation, DSWD’s Risk Resiliency Program for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation team recently met with local agriculture and social welfare officials to plan for the project’s continued implementation and expansion.
(SEJ/PIA Eastern Samar)
