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 ==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
-'''CSWO distributes cooking materials, eating utensils for Day Care Centers in Maasin City'''
+'''Maasin OSCA honors utilities, firms that care for the elderly'''
-*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=61540
+*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=61697
-*Friday, October 28, 2011
+*Saturday, October 29, 2011
-:by   R.G. Cadavos
+:by   Bong Pedalino
-MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct 28 (PIA) -– At least 72 Day Care Centers throughout Maasin City received various eating utensils and cooking materials coming from the government’s Supplemental Feeding Program through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Office 8 based in Tacloban City.
+MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Oct. 29 (PIA) -- The Office of Senior Citizens’ Affairs (OSCA) in this city gave recognition to two utility service offices and three business establishments in gratitude for granting discounts, as what the law provided, to the elderly.
-The coking materials include 72 pieces “Kaha” (big frying pans), 72 big cooking pots, 72 pieces ladles, while eating utensils consist of plates, spoon, and fork, tumblers, each for 1,503 pieces that indicate the DSWD logo each at the bottom, Fe Nida Sy City Social Welfare Aide reported Thursday in a short talk with PIA-Maasin.
+Willy Justimbaste, president of the City Federation of Senior Citizens, led the giving of the plaques of recognition to the Southern Leyte Electric Cooperative (SOLECO) and Maasin Water District (MWD), Rose Pharmacy, Mercury Drug and Gaisano Hi-Per Metro.
-“The distribution of the eating utensils depend of how many day care children from 3-4 years old are enrolled in each day care center, while the cooking materials will be distributed one each for DCC” Sy, the Focal Person for Children bared.
+The awarding ceremony was held at the Senior Citizens’ Building at Brgy. Tagnipa yesterday.
-She disclosed that “an amount of twelve pesos and seventy cents (P12.70) inclusive of rice per child per day for 120 days hot meal feeding shall be allocated and ten pesos (P10.00) is allocated each child for the viand,” Sy disclosed. An average of 10 children is covered in every kilo of rice at the price of P27.00 per kilo, Sy further said.
+The five establishments were honored for giving the required discounts to qualified senior citizens in buying drugs, medicines, selected groceries or paying for services like water and electricity.
-Though, the 120 bags of iron-fortified rice, re still coming, she said. It will be purchased from the respective National Food Authority regional offices, while the local government units will be the one to withdraw the NFA rice at NFA warehouses, she added.
+In the brief “Action Center” kapihan that preceded the handing of awards, SOLECO Section Head Raul Fabroa explained that in order to avail of the five percent power discounts, a senior citizen must file an application at their office.
-The Supplemental Feeding Program is the provision of food in addition to the regular meals, to currently day care children as part of the DSWD's contribution to the Early Childhood Care adn Development (ECCD) program of the government, the source added.
+He said the 5 percent off can only be enjoyed for those consuming 100 kilowatt-hours of electric consumption or less than per month, but he still encouraged those who consumed more than 100 KWH to register, so they can avail of the discount once they consumed less.
-As of this writing, Day Care Workers from different Day Care Centers in Maasin City are withdrawing their share of the cooking materials and eating utensils from the City Social Welfare Office here. (rgc/PIA-SoLeyte)
+The name of the senior citizen should be the member, Fabroa stressed, and in a family where there is an elderly the change of name for a member can be allowed but it will take one year after the change before the discount can be enjoyed.
+SOLECO was the first electric cooperative in Region 8 to have followed the law on the expanded benefits for senior citizens, it was learned.
+As to purchases of medicines and groceries in pharmacies, Rose Pharmacy’s Annabelle Cardoza said the requirement was for the elderly buyer to present a purchase slip -- which can be asked from the OSCA office -- an ID, an authorization if the senior had someone buy it, and the doctor’s prescription for the drugs needed.
+Pharmacies are mandated to grant 20 percent discount on purchases from the elderly, although there are still drugstores that are not following the law, according to commonly heard complaints. (PIA-Southern Leyte/bong)
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