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 ==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
-'''5 bridges to be constructed in two So. Leyte towns'''
+'''CSWDO–Maasin City kicks off Women’s Month celebration'''
-*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1301330988636
+*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281331106140
-*Tuesday 6th of March 2012
+*Wednesday 7th of March 2012
-:by Marcelo M. Pedalino
+:by Erna S. Gorne
-MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Mar. 6 (PIA)  --  Five foreign-assisted bridges, Spanish-inspired structures, will be installed in three barangays in the municipality of Silago and two barangays for San Ricardo municipality within this year.
+MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 7 (PIA)  -- The City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) – Maasin City will kickoff it’s two-day celebration with motorcade and seminar-orientations series on climate change tomorrow.
-In a press conference with local media recently, Engr. Carlos Veloso, head of the Department of Public Works and Highways – Southern Leyte Engineering District (DPWH-SLED), identified the locations at barangays Hibatian, Lawa-an, and Bagacay in Silago, and barangays Pinut-an, and Bil-atan in San Ricardo.
+In line with this year's Women's Month theme, “Women Weathering Climate Change:  Governance and Accountability, Everyone’s Responsibility,” CSWDO  has  prepared seminar- orientations focused on Climate Change  on the first day for some 300 women in the locality,  CSWD Officer Febe Maria Sta. Cruz said.
-But Veloso said implementation of these foreign-funded bridge projects will be undertaken by the DPWH central office, including the bidding procedures, which he reported as already in process.
+Sta. Cruz said on the second day , which is scheduled on March 22, they have lined up several free services for the women such as medical consultation, pedicure, manicure,  massage,  legal consultations and women showcases on successful livelihood programs.
-Veloso cannot say how much was the overall costs of the five bridge projects, which were funded by Spain, saying only that as far as he knew, the Philippine government has put up a counterpart fund of around P 50 million.
+She said different women groups coming from the 70 - barangay women councils, Day Care workers, Local Women Council officers and other women organizations are expected to join the lined up activities.
-Meanwhile, a groundbreaking ceremony has been scheduled on March 8, Thursday, for the four bridge projects funded out of the agency’s regular funds.
+On the second scheduled day, the same group of  women will be exposed to gender sensitivity issues, Sta Cruz added. (ldl/esg/PIA-8)
-Starting last week, traffic in the city’s main road was re-routed as the widening of the said bridge was already in full blast, the project officially called “replacement of Tuburan Bridge” with an appropriation of P 10 million.
-Widening of another old bridge in the city, in barangay Combado, will follow, as well as the one in barangay San Roque, Macrohon, while work for the completion of the Subang Daku bridge in Sogod is underway.
-Replacement of Combado arch bridge has an outlay of P 8 million, while the construction of San Roque bridge, P 18.2 million.  Subang Daku bridge in Sogod, which is expected to be finished within the year, was allotted P 48 million, and concreting on the approaches on both ends of the said bridge, P 40 million. (PIA8-Southern Leyte)
 ==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==