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==Nurses for Maguindanao, Lanao Sur under NDP ready for deployment==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=618195
*Thursday, February 20, 2014
:(PNA), FPV/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, Feb. 20 (PNA) – More than 450 nurses have been hired to serve in the provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur, the Department of Health in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DOH-ARMM) Thursday said.
These nurses will be deployed through the Nurses Deployment Program for ARMM which is composed of the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, according to regional NDP coordinator for ARMM Janette Dimakuta.
The nurses, 457 in all, have already signed a contract with the DOH-ARMM and are set to be deployed in their places of assignment after having hurdled screening process and interviews.
”This is a two year project but the contract is renewable every six months,” Dimakuta said, adding that the renewal will depend on the nurses’ performance during the first six months of their services.
According to Dimakuta, each hired nurses will receive P18,000 monthly salary or more than double the amount previously hired nurses under the defunct Registered Nurses for Health Enhancement and Local Services (RN-HEALS) program.
She said more nurses will be hired for deployment in the region’s island provinces.
In Basilan, 98 nurses have undergone the initial selection and qualification process but only 86 will be hired.
In Tawi-Tawi which is composed of island municipalities in the southernmost tip of Mindanao, the DOH-ARMM will hire 83 nurses and final screening of applicants was held on February 17. The results will be announced later.
Final screening for nurses to be hired and deployed in Sulu will be on February 24. Sulu needs 120 nurses under the NDP program.
NDP is a DOH national project aimed at improving local health systems and support the Philippine’s attainment of Universal Health Care or “Kalusugang Pangkalahatan.”
It also aims to provide employment opportunities to the growing number of unemployed or underemployed nurses in the country.
It is also part of the main goals of Aquino Health Agenda (AHA).
Budget for employing nurses have doubled as sin taxes increased the DOH’s budget thus the Nurses Deployment Project will employ nurses instead of ‘deploying’ them contrary to that of RNheals.
Because of its implementing guidelines’ similarity, Nurse Deployment Project 2014 is sometimes dubbed as “RNheals 2014″ or “Nurses to Barrios Program.”
The NDP is the successor of the Registered Nurse for Health Enhancement and Local Service (RN Heals).
==Solar power for ARMM seen as vital tool to increase investments==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=617576
*Wednesday, February 19, 2014
:(PNA), JBP/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, Feb. 19 (PNA) -- With a solar power plant in the making in Marawi City, its mayor today said energy is expected to improve in the city, the province of Lanao del Sur and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Marawi Mayor Fahad Salic said his city being the host area of the solar power plant being implemented by United States-based Mendoza Solar Company would mean cheap power supply.
Salic said with cheaper energy the city will become investment friendly and will become competitive like any other cities in Mindanao.
Home to Moro uprising in the past, Marawi City has been marred by violence for the past decades, including bombing, kidnapping, insurgency and political violence.
But Salic was as optimistic as any resident because the project, partly funded by international funding agency, would spur economic development that will benefit more its constituents.
The project also came at a time when the region is preparing for a bigger development ahead -- the establishment of new Bangsamoro government.
Marawi is a component city of ARMM which also includes the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
It is near Lake Lanao, the primary source of most of energy for Mindanao through the Agus hydropower plants.
According to Salic, the P4.7 billion proposed photovoltaic solar power plant in Barangay Malimono and Matampay-Cormatan in Marawi will be the biggest in the country and second to Thailand which has been the leading solar energy producer in Asia.
Expected to be completed in March 2015, the project was a result of a public-private partnership agreement between Marawi City and Lim Solar Philippines, a subsidiary of Mendoza Solar company.
It was launched last week in what local officials called a special government services convergence program for local residents.
To be built under the ARMM' HELPS or Health, Education, Livelihood, Peace Interventions and other Services, the project is among the brainchild of the ARMM executive department.
==ARMM opens additional slots for scholarship program==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=617161
*Tuesday, February 18, 2014
:(PNA), LAM/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, Feb. 18 (PNA) -- Poor but deserving students in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) can now avail of additional scholarship program from the regional government, officials announced Tuesday.
Amihilda Sangcopan, ARMM chief of staff, said the opening of additional slots for ARMM 'Iskolar" programm came after the Commission on Higher Education (CHED-ARMM) came up with a memorandum order on new guidelines in the recruitment of scholars.
Sangcopan, however, could not say how many slots would be available this time.
Currently, ARMM has 954 scholars with 353 of them studying under CHED-ARMM scholarship program while 601 are under the Special Purpose Fund of ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman.
Sangcopan advises poor but deserving students to submit application forms for the scholarship program under the education component of Hataman’s HELPS (health, education, livelihood, peace, synergy) Convergence program.
The program which Hataman started when he assumed as officer in charge in 2011 was dubbed “Skolar, Para sa Pagbabago, Para sa Bangsamoro."
It was open to residents of ARMM who are presently first year college students and those who are taking education, IT, agriculture, fishery and environment, accountancy, medicine and other allied courses not necessarily in the first year level.
Applicants are required to submit copies of income tax return of parents or guardian of not more than P200,000 per annum, certificate of tax exemption, death certificate of parents for orphans, certification from employer for working students, certificate of good moral character, barangay certificate of residency, social case study report from the local government unit (optional), and valid ID for students or parents.
In his state of the region address, Hataman said the scholarship program is part of the aggressive efforts of the regional government to improve and accelerate access to quality education especially to low-income families and sectors aimed at addressing low literacy rate in the region.
==P1.45-B ARMM investments approved==
*Source:http://www.mb.com.ph/p1-45-b-armm-investments-approved/
*Monday, February 17, 2014
:By Ron B. Lopez
The Regional Board of Investments of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (RBOI-ARMM) approved three major investments in the region worth P1.45 billion, nearly reaching the overall total amount of investment in 2013.
In a news release, the board has registered the Lamsan Power Corporation, SR Languyan Mining Corporation and ABSCOR Multi-Trading Company as its newest members during a meeting on February 13. Ishak Mastura, RBOI Chairman and Managing Head, said strong surge in investment is due to the increased confidence of investors-both local and national-in improving the peace and order situation in the area. Collectively, these are expected to create Aside from the lively economy, the investments are expected to bring more than 1, 100 jobs to its people, he added.
These investments came after the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the national government signed the Annex on Normalization in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on January, completing the Comprehensive Framework Agreement of the Bangsamoro.
Mastura stressed that this is the first time that investments in the ARMM have reached more than P1 billion year-on-year, and could reach P2 billion this 2014.
“We are actually getting more inquiries about how to invest in the ARMM than is usual from foreign companies,” he said in the statement posted on the board’s website.
The reforms in ARMM governance and the “hands-on” investment promotion conducted by ARMM Regional Governor Mujiv S. Hataman have convinced local investors that the government is serious to host their businesses in ARMM.
The Lamsan Power Corporation which is in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, has registered a pioneer biomass renewable energy project worth P921 million. This will utilize rice hull, corn husks, cobs and other agricultural wastage from its own cornstarch plant with a capacity of 15 megawatts, Mastura said.
This multi-million project is expected to augment the power reserves of the National Power Corporation and the Mindanao Grid since Lamsan Power will be selling 11.5 MW to these power companies.
The SR Languyan Mining Corporation invested P520 million for a nickel ore mining project in the area with a capacity of 1 million metric tons per year, which will operate in Brgy. Darussalam, Languyan, Tawi-Tawi, Mastura said.
ABSCOR Multi-Trading Company based in Port Holland, Maluso, Basilan has allocated P10 million for an import and export trading business.
==P13.8 M worth of smuggled rice seized in Tawi-Tawi==
*Source:http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2014/02/16/1290926/p13.8-m-worth-smuggled-rice-seized-tawi-tawi
*Sunday, February 16, 2014  12:00 am
:By Roel Pareño (The Philippine Star)
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – Some P13.8-million worth of smuggled rice were seized by the Philippine Navy from two vessels off Tawi-Tawi, officials said yesterday.
Naval Forces Western Mindanao (NFWM) chief Rear Admiral Jesus Millan said operatives of Naval Task Force 61 initially intercepted late January M/L Sea Dayang loaded with 6,000 sacks of rice near Bongao town.
Millan said the Navy discovered the sacks of imported rice aboard the vessel were not properly documented.
A week later, another vessel M/L JF Express was also intercepted and apprehended by the Task Force 61 near Pangutaran, Sulu and was discovered to be loaded with 2,750 sacks of rice.
Officials said the skipper of the vessel was not carrying the proper documents for the smuggled rice.
Millan said both vessels and the smuggled rice were turned over to the Bureau of Customs regional office here.
He said based on the assessment, the seized imported rice was estimated to be worth P13.8 million.
The Naval Forces Western Mindanao have intensified the campaign against rice smuggling in the south as the island provinces of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi have been utilized by rice smugglers as their transshipment point.
==GPH-MILF talks trigger surge in ARMM investments–exec==
*Source:http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2014/02/15/gph-milf-talks-trigger-surge-in-armm-investments-exec/
*Saturday, February 15, 2014  2:05 pm
:(MindaNews)
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews/15 February)—Investments registered in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) breached the P1 billion mark barely two months into 2014, with the growing investors’ confidence attributed to the strides in the peace process between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
In a statement, the Regional Board of Investments (RBOI) in the ARMM said it has approved the registration of a record P1.451 billion worth of investments in the area in a meeting last Thursday in Zamboanga City.
Throughout 2013, the investments registered with the RBOI reached P1.463 billion, which are almost the investments registered so far for this year.
“This is the first time that investments in the ARMM reached more than P1 billion year-on-year,” lawyer Ishak Mastura, RBOI chairperson, said in the statement.
He projected that investments in the area could hit P2 billion until the end of 2014.
The strong surge in investment in the ARMM comes in the wake of the signing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last month of the Annex on Normalization, the last of the four annexes to the Framework Agreement on Bangsamoro (FAB), according to the statement.
Agreed by the GPH and MILF peace panels on October 15, 2012, the FAB consists also of the annexes on Transitional Arrangements and Modalities, Revenue Generation and Wealth Sharing, and Power Sharing. The parties signed the three annexes last year in Malaysia, the third party facilitator.
The FAB and the four annexes will compose the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the final peace deal between the GPH and the MILF.
In Buluan, Maguindanao last week, Presidential Peace Adviser Teresita Quintos Deles said that the peace panels are ready to sign the CAB likely by early March.
She noted that President Benigno Aquino III wants the Bangsamoro Basic Law, which is being drafted by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission, to be finished by March 31 so he can submit it then to Congress as a priority bill.
“We’ve come this far so let us all support this peace process. The negotiations were difficult in adherence to the order of the President to learn from the lessons of the past and that everything must be within the ambit of the constitution,” Deles said.
“The important thing on the part of the government during the negotiations was that it was guided by the principle not to make promises it cannot deliver politically, economically and culturally,” she said.
Mastura said that the new investments are from local investors, who are registering with the RBOI “because of their increased confidence in the improving peace and order situation in the area, brought about mainly by the success of the GPH-MILF peace negotiations.”
“We are actually getting more inquiries about how to invest in the ARMM than is usual from foreign companies,” he added.
With barely two months into 2014, the RBOI registered the P921.56 million biomass energy project of Lamsam Power Corp. in Sultan Kudarat Maguindanao; the P520 million nickel ore mining project of SR Languyan Mining Corp. in Languyan, Tawi-tawi; and the P10 million import and export trading business of ABSCOR Multi-Trading Co. in Maluso, Basilan.
President Aquino, who was in Davao City last Wednesday as keynote speaker for the 2nd ARMM LGU Summit on Governance and Development, has projected a rosy economy for the new Bangsamoro region once it is established.
“Nananabik na po tayo sa araw na maipasa na ang Bangsamoro Basic Law, upang tuluyan na ngang mabuksan ang bagong kabanata ng kasaysayan sa Muslim Mindanao (We are excited to have the Bangsamoro Basic Law passed so that a new chapter will finally unfold in the history of Muslim Mindanao),” he said.
The ARMM will be abolished once the Bangsamoro Basic Law gets the approval of Congress and ratified in a plebiscite.
==7 ARMM towns cited for good governance==
*Source:http://www.philstar.com/nation/2014/02/14/1290087/7-armm-towns-cited-good-governance
*Friday, February 14, 2014 12:00 am
:By Edith Regalado (The Philippine Star)
DAVAO CITY, Philippines  – At least seven towns in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) were awarded with the “Seal of Good Housekeeping” by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as recognition of their good performance in governance.
The awardees are the municipalities of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Parang, Sultan Mastura and Upi in Maguindanao; Ganassi and Wao in Lanao del Sur; and Siasi in Sulu.
Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas handed the checks worth P1 million each to the mayors of the seven towns during the second ARMM Local Government Units Summit at the Waterfront Insular Hotel here.
The P1 million cash award is actually a Performance Challenge Fund to help the seven towns jumpstart their development initiatives that are aligned with national priorities.
The seven ARMM towns were chosen for adhering to the tenets of good governance, specifically advances on performance, accountability, transparency, and participation.
Fifty-one municipalities in the ARMM reportedly pre-qualified for the “Seal of Good Housekeeping.”
==ARMM lists record P1.451 billion investments in Q1==
*Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=3&rid=615671
*Thursday, February 13, 2014
:(PNA), LAM/NYP/EOF
COTABATO CITY, Feb 13 (PNA) -- While the peace deal between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is yet to be finalized within the year, investments have started coming in, the Regional Board of Investment in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) said.
In its meeting Thursday, the RBOI-ARMM approved for registration a record P1.451-billion worth of investments in the ARMM for the first quarter of 2014.
"This is a record for the ARMM since it is almost the same as the total amount of investments registered with the RBOI for the whole of 2013, which stood at P1.463 billion by year end," Lawyer Ishak Mastura, RBOI chair and managing head, said in statement.
"Moreover, this is the first time that investments in the ARMM reached more than P1 billion a year, which may even reach P2 billion this year," he added.
The strong surge in investments in the ARMM comes in the wake of the signing in Kuala Lumpur last month of the “Annex on Normalization,” considered as the last annex to the “Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro” between the government and MILF peace process.
Mastura said the new investments are mostly coming from local investors, who are registering with the RBOI because of their increased confidence in the improving peace and order situation in the area, brought about by the success of the peace negotiations.
“We are actually getting more inquiries about how to invest in the ARMM from foreign companies,” Mastura said, projecting more investments to come in the next months.
Mastura stressed that good governance was also a contributing factor in the increased confidence of investors to the region. He also cited the "hands-on" investment promotion conducted by ARMM Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman.
Hataman had been convincing local investors and telling them that ARMM is serious about wooing and securing investors to expand their operations or to set-up new enterprises in the region.
However, on a cautionary note, registration with the RBOI may be a way for investors to hedge in case of uncertainty in investment policies in the region as the new autonomous Bangsamoro political entity is set-up possibly in 2015.
But he quickly added once the new Bangsamoro government is in place, the region will even become more investment friendly.
Among the agency that registered with RBOI are Lamsan Power Corporation, SR Languyan Mining Corporation and ABSCOR Multi-Trading Company.
Lamsan Power Corporation based in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao registered a pioneer biomass renewable energy project costing P921.56 million.
The power plant is utilizing rice hull, corn husks, cobs and other agricultural wastage from its own cornstarch plant with a capacity of 15 megawatts (MW).
It is expected that this will reduce the commercial power consumption of its cornstarch operations. This will also augment power reserves of the National Power Corporation and the Mindanao Grid since Lamsan Power will be selling 11.5 MW to these power companies.
Governor Hataman said that this power project is good news since this will help ease power shortages being experienced by some areas in Mindanao.
“The power plant is a very important support facility that would encourage more businesses to flourish in the region,” Hataman said in a statement.
SR Languyan Mining Corporation has invested P520 million for a nickel ore mining project with a capacity of 1 million metric tons (WMT) per year in Barangay Darussalam, Languyan, Tawi-Tawi.
ABSCOR Multi-Trading Company based in Port Holland, Maluso, Basilan has put-in P10 million for an import and export trading business.
The company transacts its business undertakings in the geographic areas of the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines that are under the East ASEAN Growth Area, more commonly known as the BIMP-EAGA.
Mastura said the two firms from the Sulu archipelago implies that despite the “Zamboanga siege” a few months ago and the Moro National Liberation Front or MNLF disgruntlement with the peace deal with its rival MILF, investors remain resilient and some are even optimistic on business prospects in the area.
In all, about 1,122 local people are to be employed by these three firms.
Meanwhile, Haron Bandila, ARMM Business Council chair, has been wary over the current status of the Cotabato (Awang) Airport in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.
“Before we have four flights daily, but now we only have limited flights from Friday to Monday even if there are no repairs being done to the airport since December 2013," Bandila said.
He said this is a negative factor for investors to easily come in the region, including Cotabato City, the provisional administrative capital of the ARMM where its line agencies hold offices.
==PNoy woos ARMM residents, asks them to give Bangsamoro law a chance==
*Source:http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/348103/news/nation/pnoy-woos-armm-residents-asks-them-to-give-bangsamoro-law-a-chance
*Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:52 pm
:(Kimberly Jane Tan/KBK/RSJ, GMA News)
President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday appealed to the people of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to give chance to the Bangsamoro Basic Law, which is expected to result in a Bangsamoro Political Entity.
“Nananawagan po ako sa sambayanang Pilipino, lalo na sa mga kapatid nating nandito: nawa’y bigyang-daan po ninyo ang mga hakbang nating ito. Hinihimok ko po kayong tumaya rin sa pag-asang makakamit natin ang malawakan at ganap na pagbabago sa ARMM,” Aquino said during his speech at the 2nd ARMM LGU Summit on Good Governance and Development in Davao City.
He likewise asked the public to trust that the government will not repeat the mistakes of past administrations.
"Makakaasa po kayong sa bawat kasunduang ating nilalagdaan ay nakataya ang aming dangal at pangalan. Tiyakin po nating hindi na tayo babalik pa sa dilim ng nakaraan — totoong maliwanag na kinabukasan po ang inyong matatanglawan," he said.
What they envision, he said, is a Bangsamoro territory whose standard of living is at par with Metro Manila and other regions in the Philippines.
"Ang hangad po natin: Kung anong antas ng kalinga sa ospital na kailangan ng isang pasyente sa Quezon City, ay ganoon ding pag-aaruga ang matatanggap sa ospital sa Lamitan City sa Basilan. Kapag nag-aral ka sa public school sa Cebu, magkatulad na kalidad din ng edukasyon rito ang maaari mong makamit sa munisipalidad ng Tubaran sa Lanao del Sur," he said.
"Kung naglalakad ka naman sa isang kalsada sa Mandaluyong, parehong seguridad din ang mararamdaman mo sa pamamasyal sa munisipalidad ng Pandag sa Maguindanao," he added.
The Bangsamoro Basic Law
Last January, the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed the last and most contentious of the four annexes to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB).
The annexes will be used as guides in the drafting of the Bangsamoro Basic Law, which is expected to result in a Bangsamoro Political Entity that will replace ARMM.
Government peace panel chairperson Miriam Coronel-Ferrer said they hope to present the Bangsamoro Basic Law, which is being crafted by a Bangsamoro Transition Commission, to Congress early this year. 
Aquino, however, had expressed worry that they may have difficulty passing it in Congress.
After Congress enacts the law, a plebiscite will be held for it to be approved. According to the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, the plebiscite will be held in the “envisioned core territory of the Bangsamoro.”
It said this includes the current ARMM provinces and Marawi City; the cities of Cotabato and Isabela; the six municipalities in Lanao del Norte that voted for inclusion in the ARMM in the 2001 plebiscite (Baloi, Munai, Pantar, Nunungan, Tagaloan, Tangkal); and the 39 barangays in six municipalities of North Cotabato province that likewise voted for inclusion in 2001 (Labacan, Carmen, Aleosan, Pigkawaya, Pikit and Midsayap).
But it said all other “contiguous areas” where there is a resolution of the local government unit or a petition of at least 10 percent of the qualified voters in the area may also ask for their inclusion in the plebiscite, at least two months prior to its conduct.
Once the law is approved in a plebiscite, the people of the new Bangsamoro entity will elect their officials, which the government hopes to happen before June 30, 2016.
ARMM's current situation
But even before the passage of the Bangsamoro law, Aquino said his administration has been helping ARMM get back on its feet.
He specifically said that the investments in ARMM in 2013 reached P1.46 billion, which is 157 percent higher than the previous year.
He also said the Office of the Regional Treasurer also surpassed its target in 2013.
"Nakakamit na nga po natin ang ating kolektibong pangarap para sa ARMM," he said.
He attributed some of the achievements to the leadership of ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman, whom he called the "ghost buster" of the region.
"Kung pipili nga po ako ng poster boy o modelo para sa mabuting pamamahala, baka siya po ang maging pambato ko. Para kay Gov Mujiv: Ang susi sa kaunlaran — hindi “ako lang,” hindi “ako muna,” kundi tayong lahat, sabay-sabay na aangat," said the President.
==ARMM sports fest under way despite bad weather==
*Source:http://sports.inquirer.net/144792/armm-sports-fest-under-way-despite-bad-weather
*Tuesday, February 11, 2014 2:40 pm
:By Charlie C. Señase (Inquirer Mindanao)
MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur—Bad weather did not stop officials and athletes from 10 schools divisions in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao from pushing on with Monday’s opening ceremony of the Palarong ARMM Athletic Association (ARMMAA) at the Mindanao State University campus here.
As in previous years, it started with contingents showcasing the culture of their respective provinces in a colorful motorcade and parade of athletes.
“The annual ARMMAA has helped nurture the overall development of the region’s best and young athletes, allowing them to hone their skills in sports and imbibe discipline and self-confidence,” said ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman in welcoming the delegates.
He considered the sports event an opportunity to foster understanding and camaraderie among students in ARMM.
Regional Vice Gov. Haroun Al-Rashid Lucman and ARMM Education Secretary Jamar Kulayan declared the annual sports fest open with the ceremonial banging of a gong and the release of pigeons.
Tawi-Tawi Gov. Nurbert Sahali, last year’s host, turned over the ARMM sports banner to Mayor Fahad Salic of Marawi.
The athletic competition includes archery, arnis, badminton, baseball, softball, swimming, table tennis, billiards, boxing, chess, sepak-takraw, wushu, wrestling and volleyball.
Kulayan said the  ARMMAA was the biggest sporting event of the region, budgeted at P10 million with almost 6,000 participants, counting both  officials and athletes.
He said the winners will represent ARMM in the Palarong Pambansa scheduled in May in Laguna.
“I am glad we are able to hold this sporting event and help bridge gaps and unite for change and reform,” Kulayan said.
==ARMM HEART provides relief to IDPs in Maguindanao==
==ARMM HEART provides relief to IDPs in Maguindanao==
*Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=2411391994924
*Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=2411391994924
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