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ICT Caravan
ICT CARAVAN
November 18, 2009
1:00 PM
Banaybanay, Davao Oriental
The ICT Caravan aims to:
- To brief the participants with the overview about OPAPA and cyber communities, its objectives and implementation strategies;
- Provide hands-on orientation of available ICT-based materials on rice;
- To demonstrate how to access available information needed for rice production and marketing via internet, cellphone & other e-device.
Schedule of Activities
| 1:00 | Arrival & Registration |
| 2:00 2:46 | Caravan Opening Program EMCEE: Mr. Wennie Cantiga |
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| • Invocation Parish choir |
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| • National Anthem Parish choir |
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| • Introduction of Participants Ms. Ester M. Solana |
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| • Welcome Address Atty.Pedro T. Mejos Municipal Mayor, Banaybanay •Message Hon. Corazon N. Malanyaon Governor •Message Hon. Thelma Z. Almario Congresswoman, District II |
Almario visits Banaybanay's Moral Recovery Program
Congresswoman Thelma Z. Almario of the 2nd District of Davao Oriental surprised the participants of the LGU Morning Fellowship when the emcee announced her presence. The audience rendered her a loud applause of welcome and appreciation.The Morning or Breakfast Fellowship is an inter-faith gathering every Thursday of local government workers and constituents to give time for spiritual and moral values as vital component of public service and human development. Congresswoman Almario together with leaders of different religious groups and local officials had initiated this program as a response to the call for Moral Recovery in the government service. Banaybanay, through the leadership of its mayor, Atty. Pedro T. Mejos, has sustained this Morning Fellowship since its inception period. He has even expanded it to the Barangay level on a once a month basis.
Read more: Almario visits Banaybanay's Moral Recovery Program
A Test of Faith and Friendship
A TEST OF FAITH .. . AND FRIENDSHIP….
A testimony…..
Thanks! NFA rice for us is now here for delivery… this was all in our minds as we’ve seen the van. Most employees availed the 25 kilo subsidy since the price of the first class rice caused headaches to us. Suddenly, “ Ibagsak si Gloria! Ibagsak ang presyo ng bigas!... As we hear the voice of a young man shouting using his megaphone riding in a forward truck with almost 30 young people as his companion, we thought that these are
demonstrators with no different from the one’s we’ve seen on television. But somehow, we felt that they are disturbing our LGU Breakfast Fellowship. As Pastor Sammy Cabahug of Shekinah Baptist Church, who was then our guest speaker told us not to listen to them, just a few seconds, history begun…
| Lyra and I were 10-15 meters away from the firing amazons, crawled like a mermaid to the place we thought the safest- the comfort room! Unfortunately, the ladies room turned into men’s room. |
“ Bratatat..tat..tat..EEh…Ahh..” Down! Some shouted… As the first firing shot was heard, all the employees were nowhere to found. Some ran in the rice fields, some to the motor pool, some crawled in the very muddy, odorous, greenish canal and some, even women climbed the cyclone wired fence. But Lyra and I opted to remained in the training center as what our mother told us when we were young. My legs were shaking and I could not move but my friend Lyra, who is a veteran (according to her) to this kind of situation, pulled me and comforted me. She kept on telling me to be relax so that I can move and we crawled like a mermaid to the place we thought the safest- the comfort room! Mind you, it’s a ladies room but the gentlemen were the first to get in, so we have no choice but to stay outside. No more ladies first.
Humay
Since ancient times, rice called “humay” by the Bisayans, has been the most commonly used food grain for majority of people in the world. A member of grass family, Gramineae Rice, can be grown successfully under climatic conditions ranging from tropical to moderate. Properly cultivated, “humay” produces higher yields than any other grain with the exception of corn or “mais”. This miracle-like plant, also known as Oryza Sativa, has been grown successfully in our country, particularly, here in Banaybanay because of its wide plains and the accessibility of irrigation waters.