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 ==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
-'''SoLeyte’s Brgy Hingatunggan wins as 1st runner-up in LTIA nat'l award'''
+'''OWWA honors OFWs, holds OFW Family Day'''
-*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=68844
+*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=69083
-*Tuesday, December 20, 2011
+*Wednesday, December 21, 2011
 :by  R.G. Cadavos
-MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Dec. 20 (PIA) –- Barangay Hingatunggan in Silago town is this year’s Lupon Tagapamayapa Incentive Award (LTIA) 2011 search first runner up at the national level.
+SOUTHERN LEYTE, Dec. 21 (PIA) –- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Regional Office 8 gathered at least 739 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)throughout Eastern Visayas Region to participate in the annual OFW Family Day, December 17.
-The search, spearheaded by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines conducted its awarding ceremony December 7 at Malacañang Palace with President Benigno S. Aquino III handing out the awards to the winners. as the guest of honor, DILG information officer Loren Abrau-Aniciete reported to PIA-Maasin this morning.
+OWWA RWO 8 officer-in-charge director Ma. Evangelina V.Filamor in her report, Tuesday said that the gathering was attended by OFWs from as far as the uppermost part of Northern Samar to the municipality of Pintuyan in Southern Leyte.
-Barangay Hingatunggan received P50,000 cash and a plaque, Loren Abrau-Aniciete of the DILG disclosed in a phone interview.
+“The joy and value of togetherness of the said celebration and a chance to take home major and consolation prizes were enough reasons for them to push through despite the distance and the bad weather,“ Fillamor said.
-Aniciete revealed that, “within a decade of the Lupon Tagapamayapa Incentive Award (LTIA) search, Barangay Hingatunggan won four times as a national finalist and twice as national nominee,” from year 2001-2010.
+“We were expecting as many as 1,500 OFWs and their beneficiaries as evidenced by the number of pre-registrants who confirmed their attendance to the said activity. But the bad weather prevented them to do that. Nevertheless, we are confident to say that even if Sendong swept Eastern Visayas, the 2011 OFW Family Day was a success,” Filamor said.
-The national LTIA winner went to Barangay Quezon, Mainit of Surigao del Norte; and Barangay Ambassador, Tublay from Benguet province as second ruppner up, Aniciete added.
+The occasion was a salutation to the achievements of the OFWs to the country’s economy, she said. This year’s OFW Family Day highlighted fun, games, and raffle.
-It was learned that the LTIA program aims to give recognition to Lupons who have showed exemplary performace in exercising the time-honored tradition of amicably settling disputes among barangay constituents and it also strengthens the Katarungang Pambarangay (KP) as an indigenous comflict resolution structure at the grassroots and can generate greater awareness amng, and support from various sectors in society. (RGC/PIA-SoLeyte)
+Prizes were given to lucky winners such as one Samsung Netbook computer; one Sanyo refrigerator; one Panasonic washing machine; three rice cookers; two oven toasters; six Cherry Mobile cellular phones; two Nokia cellular phones; 10 USB flash drives; 15 Globe call cards; 15 Globe tipid cards; 125 t-shirts; and eight bags of Noche Buena packs. (RGC/PIA-SoLeyte)
 ==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==