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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''DPWH, DOT, DA convergence in So. Leyte underway'''
'''22 out-of-school youths recruited to scouting movement'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1301330239380
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R08&article=1281330400492
*Monday 27th of February 2012
*Tuesday 28th of February 2012
:by (PIA8-SouthernLeyte)
:by Erna S. Gorne




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 27 (PIA) -- Three national line agencies, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Department of Tourism (DoT), and the Department of Agriculture (DA), are pooling their technical and financial resources to push for the development of tourism and boost agri-business here in this province.
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 28 (PIA) -- At least 22 out-of-school youths (OSYs) were recruited to the Neighborhood Scouting program of the Boy Scout of the Philippines (BSP) based in Southern Leyte.
DPWH-SLED (Southern Leyte Engineering District) will work on key roads that promote tourism, especially those that directly lead to five specific tour sites in the province, while the DOT will provide the funding which, hopefully, will be available within the year, Carlos Veloso, engineer and head of SLED said.
Among the sites considered for development under the DPWH-DOT convergence are the roads leading to barangay Danao in this city, the future site of the Maasin Nature and Wildlife Park; improvement of a trail leading to Cambaro cave in Macrohon; a road leading to the planned canopy walk in Silago; a road leading to a crater in San Juan; and completion of the circumferential road in Limasawa.
According to Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco these 22 OSYs from Barangay Asuncion in Maasin City were also known as “bakal boys” because they steal iron and steel and sell these at the junk shops in the locality for their livelihood.
All the five projects have an estimated appropriation of more than P20 million, Veloso said.
Regarding the linkage with DA, Veloso said a P 6-million fund is currently available to continue the farm-to-market road connecting Maasin and Bontoc through the mountainous terrains of the two localities, from barangay Lunas in Maasin to barangay Pacu in Bontoc.
Samaco said, however, only 16 of the OSYs passed the scouting trainings and joined provincial and national jamborees. These OSYs have already stopped their former ways and instead planted vegetable at the backyard of the BSP provincial office and earned money as well.
When completed, this cross-country highway is seen as a big help in cutting travel time for passengers and motorists coming from the pacific and Panaon islands of the province who, at present, use the Bontoc-Bato,Leyte-Maasin route.
Another P 10 million release for the same project was due to be disbursed this year 2012 so the Lunas-Pacu, Bontoc road can be fully operational and opened for traffic soonest, Veloso further said.
They were were enrolled in the Alternative Learning System of the Department of Education wherein they graduated last December 2011, he said.
“We are still hoping that some of these boys will get the Eagle Rank and become the first out-of-school youth in the whole Philippines to be advanced as Eagle Scouts.” Samaco added. (ESG-PIA SoLeyte)


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