Robredo delivers anti-poverty aid packages to Samar towns
Published Aug 5, 2018 08:44 am
By Raymund Antonio
Looking for more ways to help the poor in rural areas, the Office of the Vice President (OVP) plans to expand the coverage of its flagship anti-poverty program to Eastern Samar.
Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP / MANILA BULLETIN)
This was bared by Vice President Leni Robredo herself when she visited various remote towns in Eastern Samar for Angat Buhay interventions.
“Marami na po kaming pledges doon sa mga naunang mga munisipyo, pero pinaromise ko po iyon na titingnan po natin, at least dito sa Eastern Samar, makadagdag tayo sa northern towns (We have many pledges for the previous municipalities but I promise we are looking, at least here in Eastern Samar, at additional northern towns),” she said.
For one, OVP has been training its sights on Dolores town, a fifth class municipality along the northern coast of Samar, facing the Pacific Ocean.
Major sources of livelihood in Dolores are farming and fishing.
Robredo visited Salcedo, Quinapondan, and Balangkayan, where she turned over various forms of assistance to beneficiaries of her Angat Buhay program from August 2-3.
These towns were three of the four partner areas selected by OVP for its poverty alleviation efforts in Eastern Samar.
The other is Hernani.
She witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony for a dormitory for students who live far from Matarinao School of Fisheries in Salcedo and Balangkayan National High School in Balangkayan.
The Vice President then proceeded to Western Samar for the ceremonial turnover of carabaos to 15 livelihood subsidy beneficiaries in Gandara, a second class municipality.
Such assistance is meant to increase the supply of carabao milk in the town, and in turn help boost the production of cheese, locally known as ‘keseo.’
An advocate of the poor, Robredo considers poverty as the biggest challenge in communities.
“I always tell the people we help that we’re not aspiring to become rich but what we should strive for is to feed our families with healthy food three times a day and send our children to school,” she said in Filipino.
To fight poverty, the Vice President said that education is the ‘greatest equalizer’ for poor Filipinos.
“When a person is educated, even is he or she is poor, they have a fighting chance,” she said.
Vice President Leni Robredo (OVP / MANILA BULLETIN)
This was bared by Vice President Leni Robredo herself when she visited various remote towns in Eastern Samar for Angat Buhay interventions.
“Marami na po kaming pledges doon sa mga naunang mga munisipyo, pero pinaromise ko po iyon na titingnan po natin, at least dito sa Eastern Samar, makadagdag tayo sa northern towns (We have many pledges for the previous municipalities but I promise we are looking, at least here in Eastern Samar, at additional northern towns),” she said.
For one, OVP has been training its sights on Dolores town, a fifth class municipality along the northern coast of Samar, facing the Pacific Ocean.
Major sources of livelihood in Dolores are farming and fishing.
Robredo visited Salcedo, Quinapondan, and Balangkayan, where she turned over various forms of assistance to beneficiaries of her Angat Buhay program from August 2-3.
These towns were three of the four partner areas selected by OVP for its poverty alleviation efforts in Eastern Samar.
The other is Hernani.
She witnessed the groundbreaking ceremony for a dormitory for students who live far from Matarinao School of Fisheries in Salcedo and Balangkayan National High School in Balangkayan.
The Vice President then proceeded to Western Samar for the ceremonial turnover of carabaos to 15 livelihood subsidy beneficiaries in Gandara, a second class municipality.
Such assistance is meant to increase the supply of carabao milk in the town, and in turn help boost the production of cheese, locally known as ‘keseo.’
An advocate of the poor, Robredo considers poverty as the biggest challenge in communities.
“I always tell the people we help that we’re not aspiring to become rich but what we should strive for is to feed our families with healthy food three times a day and send our children to school,” she said in Filipino.
To fight poverty, the Vice President said that education is the ‘greatest equalizer’ for poor Filipinos.
“When a person is educated, even is he or she is poor, they have a fighting chance,” she said.