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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''DENR chooses greening sites in Southern Leyte as national model'''
'''Southern Leyte equips its constituents with skills trainings'''
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1301327983528
*Source: Southern Leyte equips its constituents with skills trainings
*Wednesday 1st of February 2012
*Friday 3rd of February 2012
:by  Marcelo M. Pedalino
:by  Erna S. Gorne




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 1 (PIA)  -- The central office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was so impressed with the panoramic view of two tree-planting sites here under the National Greening Program (NGP) that these were declared model NGP areas
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb 3  (PIA)  -- The provincial government of Southern Leyte is equipping  its constituents with skills through trainings; these trainings would eventually prod them towards self employment.
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According to Cristina Aguelo of the  Provincial Social Welfare and Development  Office  (PSWDO), their office already conducted the first skills training on haircutting to 30 residents at Hinunangan Municipal Covered Court on January 16-22. This will be followed by manicure and pedicure training in Silago before February ends; massage therapy  is scheduled for  March while facial make-up training  in Barangay Asuncion, Maasin City will be on April.
According to Provincial Environment and Natural Resources officer (PENRO) Ricardo Tomol, the NGP sites at barangays Bogo and Laboon, and another at barangay Lunas, caught the attention of the agency’s higher-ups, thus its selection as model sites.
Last year, the Barangay Asuncion in Maasin City provided skills trainings in partnership with the provincial government where manicure, pedicure, haircutting, and massage therapy skills trainings were held at the barangay hall, Aguelo  said.
Also last year, the provincial government was able to gainfully equip  about  689  local constituents with varied skills such as massage theraphy, haircutting, manicure and pedicure, facial make-up, motorcyle repair and maintenance, food processing, among others, she added. (PIA8 / SoLeyte)
Tomol said the one at barangay Bogo is supported by Cong. Roger Mercado; the one at Laboon, an accredited NGP site is managed by CENRO-Maasin, while the Lunas site is managed by a people’s organization (PO), in which their areas were enrolled as NGP sites as well.
   
Young Innovators for Sustainable Environment Development Association (YISEDA), the accredited PO based at Lunas, has been active in projects relating to environment conservation and preservation, and they have maintained their site, Tomol added.
   
Tomol also said that CENRO-San Juan emerged as number one in NGP implementation for the year 2011 in Region 8, having planted its target of 400 hectares from the congressional initiative and another 930 hectares from regular NGP.
For areas under CENRO-Maasin, Tomol said the targets of 930 hectares regular NGP plus 100 hectares from Cong. Mercado were also finished well ahead of time.
   
The DENR field coverage in Southern Leyte was divided in two, the CENRO-Maasin which covers Maasin city up to Sogod, and CENRO-San Juan, which covers Libagon, the four towns of Panaon island, and the six towns in the pacific area.
   
For the 2012 NGP targets, Tomol said he has yet to attend a national conference on the subject next month, even as he already had the proposed figures, definitely an increase from 2011 goals.
The NGP is a nationwide massive tree-planting activity spearheaded early last year by President Benigno Aquino III, involving government employees in all levels, including school children, where each individual is given a quota of 10 trees planted per year until 2016.
Overall, the NGP aspires to plant close to two million trees in millions of hectares of timberland areas around the Philippines to mitigate the ill effects of climate change. (PIA8-Southern Leyte)


==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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