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| ==[[Southern Leyte News]]== | | ==[[Southern Leyte News]]== |
| '''CENRO-Maasin partners with 11 POs to protect 5,410 ha. upland areas''' | | '''DSWD-8 to hire 800 young workers in Southern Leyte''' |
| *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281335759627 | | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281335930752 |
| *Monday, April 30, 2012 | | *Wednesday, May 2, 2012 |
| :by Erna S. Gorne | | :by Erna S. Gorne |
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| MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, April 30 (PIA) -- The Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) – Maasin of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Southern Leyte Provincial Office is now undertaking the development of 5,410 hectares of upland areas under the Community-Based Forest Management Program (CBFMP) in close coordination with the local peoples’ organizations. | | MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, May 2 (PIA) - - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Office 8 is set to screen today the applicants for the 832 summer job young workers coming from Southern Leyte to join the nationwide Expanded Government Internship (EGIP). |
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| CENRO-Maasin, which covers eight municipalities out of the 18 municipalities and one city of Maasin in the province, reported that the CBFMP is a regular program of the environment department to carry out the reforestation in timberland areas in the mountains and mangrove areas, CENRO-Maasin Senior Staff Edil Alcarde disclosed.
| | According to Edna Dator of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) EGIP team will meticulously select 112 qualified youths out of 700 young applicants in Maasin City alone; the rest of the EGIP slots will be filled by 40 selected youths from each of the 18 municipalities in the province. |
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| He said, “Thru the social forestry program, the upland dwellers have become partners in the protection of the remaining forest.”
| | Right now, the said team is still screening the final list of summer job youth workers, who will participate in the internship program of government, she added. |
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| The following upland areas and respective people’s organizations and their area coverages includes: 1) Maasin Farmers Marketing and Credit Org. (MAFAMCO) in Ibarra, Maasin City with 181 has; 2) Young Innovator for Social & Environmental Development Association, Inc. (YISEDA) in Maasin City with 549 has; 3) Kapunongan Mag-uuma sa Sto. Nino (KAMAS) in Macrohon with 182 has; 4) Malico Farmers Resources Management and Conservation Organization (MAFARMCO) in Macrohon with 102 has; 5) Malitbog Upland Developers for Sustainable Association (MUDSA) in Malitbog with 563 has; 6) Tomas Oppus-Malitbog Farmers Association, Inc. (TOMFA) in Tomas Oppus with 71 has; 7) Tomas Oppus Forest Developers Association, Inc. (TOFDA) in Tomas Oppus with 325 has; 8) Anahao Movement for Productive Community organization (AMPCO) in Bontoc with 451 has; 9) Kahupi-an Upland Farmers Association, Inc. (KUFA) in Sogod with 2,169 has; 10) Aktibong Grupo sa Mag-uuma Alang sa Libagunong Abot (AGILA) in Libagon with 675 has; 11) Barangay Danao Farmers Association (BADAFA) in Macrohon with 244 has; 12) Bogo Women’s Association (BWA) in Maasin City with 50 has thru the Congressional Fund of Rep. Roger G. Mercado. | | The hired applicants will work for 52 days in the community where they come from in 4Ps, Social Pension for the Indigent Elderly, Supplemental Feeding, Cash for Work and Day Care Services earning P252 per day, she said. |
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| The overall CBFMP workers availing of the said social forestry program totaled to at least 410 beneficiaries, he added.
| | Most of the applicants are aged 18 to 30 years old, many are in school, a number are out-of-school youths, several have degrees and technical-vocational courses, Dator added. (PIA 8, SoLeyte) |
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| He further disclosed that before the implementation of the social forestry program, reforestation was very limited in terms of survival since laborers burned the forest so that they will be hired again.
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| With this program, the beneficiaries will be able to harvest the trees as if they were their own and harvest mature trees, he added. (EPT/ESG-PIA8, SoLeyte)
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