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==Early marriage still common among T'boli tribe: Mayor== | |||
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/local-news/2011/10/07/early-marriage-still-common-among-tboli-tribe-mayor-183658 | |||
*Friday, October 7, 2011 | |||
:by Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper | |||
T'BOLI, South Cotabato -- With early marriage still prevalent among tribal communities here, the National Government's health caravan, dubbed as "Lakbay Buhay Kalusugan (LBK)", rolled out here Thursday in a bid to lessen such phenomenon, as well as provide health care services. | |||
Mayor Ernesto Manuel hopes the municipality, with 70 percent of the population composed of indigenous people, mostly T’bolis, could rise from poverty. | |||
"In our case, we have 10, 12-year-old [T'boli] girls getting married already, and so they were forced to stop schooling," Manuel said, lamenting that this as a major reason why many of his tribal constituents are poor. | |||
"We would like to discourage early marriage [hopefully with this health caravan]," he added. | |||
The mayor thanked the organizers of the health caravan, which was held at the Barangay Aflek gymnasium here. | |||
In the traditional T'boli culture, marriages are pre-arranged by the parents, and may be contracted at any age, even right after the child's birth. | |||
The mayor also stressed the need for a continuing family planning education among the tribal members to help them out of poverty. | |||
South Cotabato Governor Arthur Y. Pingoy Jr. said the province is blessed for having been chosen as one of the destinations of the pilot year of the LBK health caravan of the Department of Health. | |||
"Health provision, especially for the poorest of the poor, is a priority program of the Provincial Government," said Pingoy. | |||
The health caravan implored the importance of pre-natal check-up, safe pregnancy and delivery, birth spacing and hand washing. | |||
About 1,500 residents in the town have been expected to avail the services of the LBK caravan, organizers said. | |||
Aligned with the Aquino administration’s health agenda of universal access to quality health care, LBK aims to bring quality health information, education and services to Filipino people, especially in remote communities. | |||
The LBK features a bus, customized with consultation and examination clinics and a health promotion arena of interactive exhibits, health classes and wellness activities, storytelling sessions, cooking demos, games and raffles, dance contests and entertainment shows focused on safe motherhood, child nutrition and family health. | |||
LBK carries the theme "Walang Iwanan sa Biyaheng Kalusugan." | |||
==Vigilance urged amid rebel attacks in Surigao== | ==Vigilance urged amid rebel attacks in Surigao== | ||
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/local-news/2011/10/07/vigilance-urged-amid-rebel-attacks-surigao-183659 | *Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/local-news/2011/10/07/vigilance-urged-amid-rebel-attacks-surigao-183659 | ||
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The Tampakan project is touted as the largest known undeveloped copper-gold deposit in Southeast Asia, with commercial operations targeted in 2016, notwithstanding the open-pit ban imposed by the South Cotabato government. | The Tampakan project is touted as the largest known undeveloped copper-gold deposit in Southeast Asia, with commercial operations targeted in 2016, notwithstanding the open-pit ban imposed by the South Cotabato government. | ||
==South Cotabato exec urges vigilance amid NPA attacks in Surigao== | ==South Cotabato exec urges vigilance amid NPA attacks in Surigao== | ||