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==[[Sarangani News]]==
==[[Sarangani News]]==
'''Glan Vice Mayor is this year’s GAWAD awardee'''
'''Smart way of living for tribal women'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r12&id=60490
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/lifestyle/2011/10/25/smart-way-living-tribal-women-186936
*Saturday, October 22, 2011
*Tuesday, October 25, 2011
:by GLAN Info and News Service
:by Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper




GLAN, Sarangani, Oct 22 (PIA) -- A national awards-giving body has chosen Dr. Vivien B. Yap as this year’s Best Municipal Vice Mayor of the Philippines.
LIFE is not easy for a group of B'laan women in Sitio Bolol Kilot, a fishing village identified as one of the sacred sites in Alabel town, Sarangani Province.
Yap was cited by the Gawad League of Vice Mayors Information and Research Services for her “exemplary achievements in the pursuit of her chosen career both in politics and in the field of medicine, where she demonstrated exceptional quality of leadership, imbued with lofty idealism, courage and impeccable record in public service, thereby contributing much to the socio-economic development of Glan and the uplift of the living condition of her constituents.”
 
The awarding ceremony for this year’s Gawad LVM awards was held at the Manila Hotel last September 17, but due to unavoidable circumstances, Yap was unable to attend and receive the Plaque of Recognition in person.
Every day, they tend to the kids and keep house while waiting for their husbands, fathers or brothers to come home from fishing, never quite certain if earnings from the day's catch will be enough to sustain the needs of the whole family.
“I’m not really at ease being put on the spot, in the limelight, just because I am doing what I am supposed to do, in the first place,” she said.
 
Yap is the author of a special ordinance declaring every April of the year as Mahin Festival Month in Glan, adding a new dimension to the beach festival craze now spreading all over the region.
Hence, many of them are members of the Bolol Kilot Tribal Women Association, which, with the help of the Provincial Government's Indigenous People's Development Program (IPDP), is a registered organization of the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole).
She also helped craft, among other major ordinances and resolutions, the new Local Tax Code, which substantially cut down business and license fees but at the same time expanded the town’s tax base with more investments and businesses opening up because of the lower taxes.
 
She had been a barangay captain and an ex-officio provincial board member, aside from being a practicing physician doing mostly charitable work, before she was elected as the town’s second highest official in the May 2010 elections. (GLAN Info and News Service/PIA General Santos City)
They want to contribute to the family income, and with the help of Smart Communications Inc. (Smart), it looks like they have found a new livelihood.
 
"The partnership with Smart involves an assimilation of traditional custom and contemporary material," IPDP project development officer Toto Terando said.
 
"The B'laan women will use their skills in weaving to create colorful bags and souvenir items using old tarpaulins," he added.
 
Smart is engaged in a nationwide effort to manage and transform post marketing wastes through community-based up-cycling initiatives under Kabalikat sa Kalikasan, the company's CSR program for the environment.
 
This is a conscious response of company to the government's call for the implementation of Solid Waste Management (SWM).
 
Almost half of the 70 members of the association have already undergone whole-day training on Solid Waste Management by Binggirl Clemente of Earthday Network Philippines, a non-government organization that advocates ecological awareness.
 
This was followed by a three-day workshop on basic bag making and design by Siony Adam of the Malapatan Association of Sarangani Producers. After the training, the women were able to produce 25 woven tarpaulin bags ready for display.
 
To boost the association’s livelihood program, Smart donated an industrial sewing machine and plastic sealer. The group will also continue to receive old tarpaulins from Smart so that they will have a steady supply of material for their new trade.
 
The Small and Medium Enterprise Development Council of the Provincial Trade and Industry Office will help the association market the products.
 
An interagency financial management training and action planning will also be given to the association in order to sustain the livelihood program.
 
Smart's tarpaulin bag-making initiative is aligned with the local government of Alabel’s pro-earth program starting with its "No Plastic" campaign that encourages the locals to use containers made of corn husks in the public markets.
 
Smart is also working with the provincial government on the restoration of a 200-hectare forestland within the watershed of Alabel. The town's Calminda watershed is the biggest in Sarangani Province.


==Photo Gallery of Sarangani, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Sarangani, Philippines==
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