Bulletin June 18-24, 2013

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VOL. XI NO.04 BORONGAN CITY, EASTERN SAMAR JUNE 18-24, 2013 Php8.00 in Borongan City

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NEWS:

he Monetary Board(MB) placed the Rural Bank o Borongan, Inc. under thereceivership o the Philippine

Deposit Insurance Corpora-tion (PDIC) by virtue o MBResolution No. 962.A datedJune 14, 2013. As Receiver,

MB places Rural Bank of Borongan

(Eastern Samar) under PDIC receivershipAll valid insured deposit claims will be paid

PLAN International Inc.,together with other stakehold-ers, recently held the EarlyChildhood Care and Develop-ment (ECCD) Summit at theMunicipal Covered Court oHernani in this province.

Tis activity aims to ad-dress the undamental needso early childhood. Tis is theage rom birth to age six when

children must be provided withbasic holistic needs.Tis reers to the ull range

o health, nutrition, earlyeducation and social servicesto promote their optimumgrowth and development.

PLAN Area SupervisorLeah A. Payud said ECCDplays a vital role in the devel-opment o a child’s personalityand his well-being.

Payud gave an overview othe summit ollowed by an ori-entation on ECCD programsand their status by Estelita Aa-ble, provincial assistant socialwelare and development o-

Te Provincial Nutri-tion Council here is cur-

rently preparing or thecelebration o NutritionMonth in July.

In the planning con-erence held recently, the

A Buhawi (tornado) shocks the people enjoying the beach of Canigao, Matalom Leyte last June 15 at 3P.M. The beach lovers numbering closely 500

ran for cover when they spotted the buhawi. (VICKY C. ARNAIZ/Contributed Photo)

PDIC took over the bank onJune 17, 2013.

Rural Bank o Boronganis a single-unit bank locat-

ed at corner J. Bocar andCardona Streets, BoronganCity, Eastern Samar. Latestavailable records show that

as o March 31, 2013, RuralBank o Borongan had 350accounts with total depositliabilities o P16.55 million. A

total o 345 deposit accountsor 98.6% o the accounts havebalances o P500,000 or lessand ully covered by deposit

insurance. otal insured de-posits amounted to P15.61million or 94.3% o the totaldeposits.

PDIC said that upon take-over, all bank records shall

be gathered, veriied and validated. Te state depositinsurer assured depositors

Allow LGUs tohire new

board passer teachers - parents

Many parents in East-ern Visayas are urging theDepartment o Education(DepEd) to reconsider theirissued moratorium or the

local government units(LGUs)- hired teachers toaddress the lack o teachersin the region.

DepEd ocials in theregion admitted in inter- views that another reasonthat triggered or the lack o teachers in the region isthe moratorium issued by DepEd on teachers hired by the LGUs.

Te ocials claim thatDepEd issued such a mem-

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children’sdevelopmentorg holds forumon child careBy Samuel D. Candido

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Local nutrition council gears orNutrition Month celebrationBy Alicia E. Nicart Council agreed to hold a

press conerence whichshall be covered live overthe local radio station,

in their interest to makeknown the current nutri-tional status o children

Philippines destroys 5 tonsof ivory tusks

Working hands

Six agrarian scholars in

East Visayas earn college

degrees

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Republic o the PhilippinesProvince o Eastern Samar

MUNICIPAL CIVIL REGISRAR DOLORES

NOTICE TO THE PUBLICDate: June 14, 2013

CCE-0009-2013

In compliance with the publication requirementand pursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No.2013 - 1, Guidelines in the Implementation o the Ad-ministrative Order No. 1, Series o 2012 (IRR on R.A.10172), Notice is hereby served to the public that ZairylTegerero Sabandeja has fled with this Oce, a petitionor correction o entry in sex rom “emale” to “male” in

the certifcate o live birth o Zairyl Tegerero Sabande- ja at Dolores, Eastern Samar whose parents are Edato

Diolola Sabandeja and Natividad Catudio Tegerero.

Any person adversely aected by said petition may lehis written opposition with this Oce not later than June26, 2013.

(Sgd.) LILIA L. ROBEDIZOMunicipal Civil Registrar

ESB: June 11-17, 18-24, 2013

JUNE 18-24, 2013


City o BoronganOFFICE OF HE CIY CIVIL REGISRAR

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Date: June 19, 2013CCE-0067-2013 RA 10172

In compliance with the publication requirements andpursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013 - 1,Guidelines in the Implementation o the Administrative

Order No. 1, Series o 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172) Notice ishereby served to the public that BASELIA C. CARANZOhas fled with this Oce, a petition or correction o en-try in sex rom “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the Birth Cer-tifcate o BASELIA CASIMO CATUDIO who was bornon 16 April 1986 at Banuyo, Borongan, Eastern Samar and whose parents are ALEJANDRO B. CATUDIO and

WENEFRIDA B. CATUDIO.

Any person adversely aected by said petition may lehis written opposition with this Oce not later than5 July 2013. (Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III

City Civil Registrar

ESB: June 18-24, 25- July 1, 2013

Republic o the PhilippinesProvince o Eastern SamarMunicipality o San Julian

OFFICE OF HE MUNICIPAL REGISRAR

NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONRA10172 Form No. 10.1(LCRO)

In compliance with Rule 7 o R.A. 10172, a notice is

hereby served to the publi that ALVA JOY C. TOMAS

has fled with this Oce a petition or correction o cleri-

cal error in the entry on SEX rom

MALE to FEMALE in the Certifcate

o Live Birth o ALVA JOY CARTEL TOMAS who was

born on May 9, 1995 at CASOROY, SAN JULIAN, E.

SAMAR and whose parents are ALFREDO VILLAR

TOMAS and BARBARA MADOLID CARTEL.

Any person adversely aected by said petition may lehis/her written opposition beore this oce not later than01 July 2013.

(Sgd.) LEAH S. VERANA

Municipal Civil RegistrarESB: June 18-24, 25-July 1, 2013

(complete name of petitioner )

(clerical error to be corrected )

(complete name of document owner)

(complete date of birth) (place of birth)

(name of father)

(name of mother)

(error on sex to be corrected ) (correct sex)

MANILA -- Govern-ment workers used a back-hoe and an incineratorFriday to crush and burnmore than ve tons o smuggled elephant tusksworth an estimated $10million (P430 million)in the biggest known de-

struction o tracked ivo-ry outside Arica.

Te government saidthe destruction o thestockpile, gathered romseizures since 2009, dem-onstrates its commitmentto ghting the illegal ivory trade.

It also eliminates any opportunity or corruptocials to resell the ivory,as was the case in 2006when the largest singleshipment o 3.7 tones van-

ished rom the inventory,according to an interna-tional network that tracksthe illegal trade.

“Ivory is known to havedisappeared rom a numbero government-held stock-piles worldwide, so it is vi-tal that proper protocols areestablished,” said ColmanO Criodain rom the WorldWide Fund or Nature.

Te US Agency or In-

ternational Developmentand the anti-wildlie tra-cking Freeland Founda-tion said they were assistingthe Philippine governmentin conducting DNA analy-sis o elephant tusks at theCenter or ConservationBiology o the University o Washington so that law enorcement agencies willhave inormation on theorigin and transit points o the smuggled ivory. It willalso help to dismantle crim-

inal syndicates responsibleor poaching in Arica.

“Tis not only sends amessage to wildlie track-

ers that the Philippine gov-ernment is taking rm ac-tion against the illegal ivory trade, but also takes a standagainst corruption by burn-ing their ivory stockpile soit cannot be stolen then soldinto the black market,” saidSteven Galster, director o

Bangkok-based FreelandFoundation.

Te Southeast Asian na-tion has been used as a transitroute between Arica and therest o Asia. Ivory can etch upto $2,000 per kilogram ($910per pound) on the black mar-ket and more than $50,000or an entire tusk.

Te Elephant rade In-ormation System, whichtracks the illegal trade onbehal o the 1989 Conven-tion on International rade

in Endangered Species, saidthe Philippines is amongnine countries and terri-tories identied as being

most heavily implicated inthe illegal trade. Te othersare Kenya, anzania, SouthArica, Malaysia, Vietnam,Hong Kong, China andTailand.

Te Philippines is a tran-sit point but also is knownor its carving industry pro-

ducing religious sculpturesand artiacts.

Last year, National Geo-graphic magazine eaturedan ivory collection alleg-edly belonging to a RomanCatholic priest, MonsignorCristobal Garcia o Cebu,who was suspended in 2012by the Vatican because o a sex abuse case. Te Phil-ippines’ National Bureauo Investigation has said itwould question Garcia overthe origin o the ivory icons.

Ocer Sixto Comia saidFriday he had not receivedany reports on the result o the investigation. (AP)

Philippines destroys 5 tons of ivory tusks


City o BoronganOFFICE OF HE CIY CIVIL REGISRAR

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

Date: June 19, 2013CCE-0065-2013 RA 10172

In compliance with the publication requirements andpursuant to OCRG Memorandum Circular No. 2013 - 1,

Guidelines in the Implementation o the AdministrativeOrder No. 1, Series o 2012 (IRR on R.A. 10172). Noticeis hereby served to the public that ELMA TRISTE PED-ERSEN has fled with this Oce, a petition or correctiono entry in sex rom “MALE” to “FEMALE” in the BirthCertifcate o ELMA MOSCARE TRISTE who was bornon Sept. 24, 1970 at Bato, Borongan, Eastern Samar andwhose parents are FIDEL NOGAR TRISTE and EMMA

CHICANO MOSCARE.

Any person adversely aected by said petition may lehis written opposition with this Oce not later than09 July 2013. (Sgd.) MA. LUISA M. AZUL III

City Civil RegistrarESB: June 18-24, 25- July 1, 2013

orandum because the LGU-hired teachers are not boardpassers.

Te parents, however,reute such claim sayingthat there are also LGU-hired teachers who areboard passers, and on the

other hand, there are many teachers who are boardpassers but are not hiredor accommodated by theDepEd due to lack o undsor new items or teachersbut the LGUs are willing tohire them.

Te parents averred thatthe LGUs should be allowedto hire the board passerteachers that cannot be ac-commodated by the DepEddue to lack o unds or avail-ability o items.

“Te DepEd should re-consider its position and themoratorium issued and al-

low the LGUs to hire boardpasser teachers to solvethe problem,” commentedone parent, Imelda Abude,whose daughter is enrolledin one o the elementary schools here.

Earlier the DepEd o-cials in the region admittedthat Eastern Visayas is inneed o 4,943 more teachersor school opening. How-ever, their central oce hasgiven the region an alloca-tion o only 3,760 or still agap o 1,183 teachers.

Te parents pointed outthat since the lacking 1,183teachers cannot be hiredanymore by the DepEdeven though they are boardpassers due to unavailability o items, the LGUs shouldbe allowed to them to mini-mize i not solve the prob-lem or the lack o teachers.(RESIUO A. CAYU-BI)

that all valid deposits shallbe paid up to the maximumdeposit insurance coverageo P500,000.00.

he PDIC a lso an-nounced that it will conducta Depositors-Borrowers Fo-rum on June 21, 2013 to

inorm depositors o the re-quirements and proceduresor ling deposit insuranceclaims. Claim orms willbe distributed during theForum. he schedule and venue o the Forum will beposted in the bank premisesand in the PDIC website,www .pdic.gov.ph. Te claimorms and the requirementsand procedures or ilingare likewise available ordownloading rom the PDICwebsite.

Depositors may updatetheir addresses with thePDIC representatives at thebank premises or during theForum using the MailingAddress Update Forms to beurnished by PDIC represen-tatives. Duly accomplishedMailing Address UpdateForms should be submit-ted to PDIC representativesaccompanied by a photo-bearing ID o the depositorwith signature. Depositorsmay update their addresses

until June 24, 2013.Depositors with valid de-

posit accounts with balanceso P15,000.00 and below need not le deposit insur-ance claims. But deposi-tors who have outstandingobligations with the RuralBank o Borongan includingco-makers o the obligations,and have incomplete and/or have not updated theiraddresses with the bank,regardless o amount, shouldle deposit insurance claims.

For depositors that neednot ile deposit insuranceclaims, PDIC targets to startmailing payments to thesedepositors at their addressesrecorded in the bank no laterthan the last week o June.

For depositors that arerequired to le deposit in-surance claims, the PDIC

targets to start claims settle-ment operations or these ac-counts no later than the rstweek o July. Te scheduleo the claims settlement op-erations will be announcedthrough notices to be postedin the bank premises andother public places as well asthrough the PDIC website,www.pdic.gov.ph.

According to the latestBank Inormation Sheet(BIS) as o December 31,2012 led by the Rural Bank

o Borongan with the PDIC,the bank is majority-ownedby Exequiel D. Singzon,Jr. (37.38%), Leonardo Y.Medroso (18.45%) MarivicReyes (4.98%), Paz V. Anacta(4.65%), and Virginia Kishi-da (4.51%). Its Chairmanand President is Exequiel D.Singzon, Jr.

For more inormation,depositors may communi-cate with PDIC Public As-sistance personnel stationedat the bank premises. Tey

may also call the PDIC ollFree Hotline at 1-800-1-888-PDIC(7342), the PDICPublic Assistance Hotlinesat (02) 841-4630 to (02) 841-4631, or send their e-mail [email protected].(PR)

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ollege graduation had been the passage

of the young graduated to unemploy-

ment. This reality is a continuing cycle

as graduation turns out great numbers

Praying with the heartWE are told that

e should avoid pray-

ing like pagans, that is

to say, just rattling and

babbling words, multi-

plying them and mak-

ing noise and a show of

it, but actually not pray-

ing, that is to say, not

conversing with God,

not experiencing any

enlightening and trans-

formative effect, etc.

It’s an old remind-

er that continues to be

most timely, since we

always have the very

likely possibility of

praying simply with

our lips but not with

our heart. This, sadly, is

part of our human con-

dition, a consequence

of a nature weakened

by sin, both original

and personal.

We also have to con-

sider that our sin, if

not corrected, tends to

gather strength and cre-

ate historical, cultural

and social structures

that can perpetuate sin

in time, exerting bad in-

uence on us. We need

to be aware of this fact,

and skillful in how to

tackle this problem.

We therefore have

to arm our heart prop-

erly, wary of its delicate

condition especially

in its beginning stage,

and of the many ele-

ments, usually subtle

and tricky, that it has to

contend with.

Obviously, we have

to understand our heart

not simply in the bio-

logical or physical

sense, but more impor-

tantly as the seat of our

thoughts and intentions,

our desires, dreams and

of what make us excited

or concerned.

Our heart tends to

be unstable at the be-

ginning. Unless dis-

ciplined, trained and

nourished properly, it

can be quite ippy and

capricious, going from

one thing to another

ithout rm founda-

tions and clear purpose.

As the gospel tells

us, the heart is where

our treasure is. We need

to ask what our treasure

really is. Is God our true

and most precious trea-

beyond the employment opportunities. The

number of unemployed is a growing gure as

graduates keep on piling every year even before

the previous graduates could nd jobs. There

are simply less job opportunities in the country

to absorb the output of schools every gradua-

tion time. The joy of marching during gradua-tion is more on having nished the struggle for

college education than the prospect of becom-

ing gainfully employed after receiving the col-

lege degree and diploma.

The steep competition requires from the

graduates the readiness to take any available

job opportunity. It is therefore imperative for

the graduate to have acquired the necessary

skills as fallback to any available job. In some

cases, underemployment is taken as a bet-

ter option than unemployment. The situation

pushes the graduate to abandon his chosen ca-

reer and try to t in whatever job is available.

Only a few of the graduates could actually be

absorbed in the world of work. At times, grad-

uates are found incompetent in many areas to

qualify as a functional and competent worker.

The mismatch between education and jobs is

one primary cause why graduates are found

unt in various elds of work.

We are moving into the future where the

country would be producing export qual-

ity technically skilled manpower whose capa-

bilities had been predestined to be blue collar

because of being deprived from pursuing ac-

ademic courses that can mold them into com-

petent managers. But the trend is paying good

returns as more and more skilled workers arelanding in offshore and overseas employment

than those with academic degrees. This may

be the reason why most of our graduates are

lining up to take vocational courses that t theneeds of overseas opportunities.

It appears a complete reversal from old trends

where students take up vocational courses and pro-

ceed to nish an academic degree afterwards. The

dream education some years ago was for one to

acquire a college education and be a holder of an

academic degree. Technical skills was considered a

fallback for one who earns a degree still needs com-

petent skills in various aspects of hands-on work.At present, technical know-how is getting to be the

priority for employment and survival in the com-

petitive world of work with better opportunities for

skilled working hands.

sure or is it something

else, like something

material and worldly—

money, fame, power, or

just food and drink, fun

and pleasure?

We need to put more

serious attention to the

real needs and work-

ings of our heart, so we

can treat it properly. At

the moment, we seem

to take this responsibil-

ity for granted, allow-

ing our heart to simply

go anywhere, to get at-

tached to what we con-

sider would just come

naturally.

For this we need

to study the doctrine

of our faith, since it is

there that we get the

ultimate truths about

ourselves, and not just

passing facts. It’s faith

that refers us to God our

Creator, the one who

designed us, who gave

us our nature and the

laws proper to us, and

besides, who actually

keeps us in existence

and leads us to our

proper end.

Because of that, we

need to develop a theo-

logical mind, that is to

say, relying on faith

rst and foremost, be-

fore we make use of our

common sense and the

knowledge we derive

from the sciences and

arts.

This latter knowl-

edge need to be rooted

on faith, otherwise they

can just lead us any-

where in some goose

chase and can be highly

dangerous. We have

to disabuse ourselves

from our proclivity to

rely too much on com-

mon sense and our

purely intellectual pur-

suits.

We have to learn to

pray from the heart,

which also means that

prayer should be sec-

ond nature to us. As

such, prayer becomes

a constant activity. We

can and should turn ev-

erything into prayer.

Even our work and

mundane affairs should

be an occasion or even

means of prayer also.

We should end up pray-

ing as we breathe, and

as our heart beats. Thus,

St. Paul once said:

“Pray without ceasing.”

(1 Thes 5,17)

This is no fantasy.

This is no gratuitous

claim. If we look at this

matter more closely,

we will discover thatwe are actually meant

to pray, we have been

wired and appropriately

equipped for it. But nei-

ther is it forced on us,

nor does it come to us

automatically. It has to

be willed, and we also

need to be trained for it.

With prayer, we

keep our union with

God, which can mean

that we start to share

his wisdom and his

power. That’s whywhen we pray properly,

we can somehow get to

know what is right and

wrong, what is fair and

unfair, what is safe and

dangerous.

With prayer, we can

nd meaning in anysituation we can be

in, whether we are up

or down. With it, we

would know how to

handle our weaknesses

and resist the tempta-

tions around. With it,

we put into the play the

theological virtues of

faith, hope and charity

that practically com-

prise the essence of our

true life, spiritual and

supernatural.

Working hands

in the province and how parents and duty-bearerscould help in improvingthe problem on malnutri-tion.

Provincial Nutrition-

ist, Sally Jabinal broughtto the Council, said Re-gion 8 now ranks secondin the country’s malnu-trition program whileEastern Samar’s malnu-trition problem is now at 48 percent, accordingto a Food and NutritionCouncil(FNRI) report.Te problem is more onstunting and thinningamong children.

Jabinal said parentsand the general publicshould understand theimpact o malnutrition inthe total development o

hild th i h lth d

ucation, participation andsocialization.

Tis year’s theme, “Gu-tom at malnutrisyon, sa-ma-sama nating wakasan”aims to 1) increase aware-ness on hunger issues andaction to mitigate hungerand malnutrition and 2)encourage stakeholders to

contribute in addressinghunger issues and advo-cate or stronger politicalaction to end hunger.

It may be recalled thatPhilippines is a signatory to the United NationsMillennium DevelopmentGoals rst o which is toeradicate extreme poverty and hunger by: reducingby hal the prevalence o underweight children,reducing by hal the per-cent o households withinadequate energy intakeamong others. (PIA-East-ern Samar/aen)

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Family support, accept-ance, emotional and nancialreadiness and strong spiritual-ity will surely help in prevent-ing deaths among pregnantmothers, the Maternal andChild Health (MCH) o theProvincial Health Oce heresaid.

Mrs. essie Dala, Coordi-nator MCH o the PHO in aorum said that in 2012, therewere 14 maternal deaths inthe province which could hadbeen prevented, i only certainpreparations and actions hadbeen made in place.

She said, that per MaternalDeath Review conducted, itwas revealed that o this num-ber, three were teenage girls,

Fear of rejection, others causematernal deaths

By Alicia E. Nicart aging 13, 14 and 18.“It is because, young preg-

nant girls hide their state romtheir parents, especially i they are still in-school, even romtheir peers or ear o rejec-tion”, Ms. Dala said. “Tey should be helped and support-ed instead,” she said.

PHO also cited the late or

delayed reerrals o expectingmothers, meaning, they arebrought to the birthing acili-ties, several hours or days latebeore the baby is born, whichoen times result to prousebleeding o the mother aer-wards.

Tere are also motherswhose death had been contrib-uted by multiple pregnancy (multi-gravida) o multiple

deliveries(multi-para), whichDala said those who had 12 ormore pregnancies and deliver-ies.

In a way, she stressed, am-ily planning is signicant, i only it is ully accepted.

“Aer all, the health sectordoes not impose upon hus-bands and wives what method

should be used”, she said. “In-ormed choice and volunta-rism are the two importantpillars in the aspect o Repro-ductive Health (RH), whichshould be considered by theRH antagonists”, she quipped.

Dala said their oce con-tinues to seek support in theirawareness campaign and ad- vocacy that No woman shoulddie, giving lie. (PIA)

cer.Aable said a child’s orma-

tion stage rom 0-6 years oldis a very critical stage in lie.It is an investment period toensure one’s productive lie inthe uture.

Aer the orientation, anopen orum was held regard-ing ECCD where problemsand issues were identied anddiscussed by the participants.

Te ribbon cutting andopening o the booth ol-lowed the open orum. Tebooth contains inormation,education and communication(IEC) materials o ECCD by the sponsoring partners.

Te sponsoring part-

ners were: rural health units(RHU), Department o Health(DOH) or basic inormationon maternal and child healthcare; Municipal Social Wel-are and Development Oce(MSWDO), Department o Social Welare and Develop-ment (DSWD) or toys, fow charts and other IEC materi-als or children; Departmento Education (DepEd) or IECmaterials on the early stimula-tion o children or educationsuch as diagrams o dierentcomponents o learning andthe local government unit(LGU) o Hernani or mu-

nicipal plans and resolutionsthrough ordinances to supportECCD.

Sangguniang Bayan Mem-ber Emelyn B. Montero then

presented the ECCD Resolu-tion in support o the LGU inthe implementation o ECCDin Hernani.

Meanwhile, Mayor Ed-

gar C. Boco in his messageexpressed his support on theimportance o ECCD to thegrowth o children.

He said children who are juvenile delinquents are attrib-uted on how they were raisedby their parents.

A ceremonial signing o commitment by LGUs andstakeholders then ollowed.

Some 20 pregnant mothersattended the orum on healthand nutrition where Dr. EzraBalido, rural health doctor,discussed the proper way o breasteeding and nutrition.

For the early education

orum, 30 parents o childrenaged 3-5 years old children-beneciaries o the Pantawid

Pamilyang Pilipino Program(4Ps) attended. Butch Colesrom the MSWDO talkedabout the rights o the childrenwith an emphasis on a healthy

start in lie.Vicente Antona Jr. dis-

cussed the challenges on childrearing and early education orthe pre-elementary/kindergar-ten orum where some 30 par-ents o children aged 5-7 yearsold children-beneciaries o4Ps attended.

For the policy-making o-rum, some barangay captainswho are chairman on healthand education attended. Con-chita Genilo talked on exist-ing programs and services oLGUs and municipal resolu-tions through ordinances insupport to ECCD. (SDC/PIA-

E. Samar)

International....

Six recipients o theProgramang AgraryoIskolar (PAI) in Region-8joined thousands othergraduates who complet-ed college education thisschool year.

Department o Agrar-ian Reorm Region 8Director Eliasem Cas-tillo said that three o the scholars graduatedrom the Eastern SamarState University (ESSU)main campus while theremaining three romthe Visayas State Univer-sity (VSU) olosa, LeyteCampus; Southern LeyteState University (SLSU)omas Oppus campusand Naval State Univer-sity (NSU) in Naval, Bil-iran.

Te three graduatesrom ESSU in BoronganCity all took up a degreein Engineering.

Six agrarian scholars inEast Visayas earn college

degreesBy Erlinda Olivia P. iu

Grace Lumaghos andChristian Jay Lopido n-ished Civil Engineering,while Andrie Caspe com-pleted a course in Electri-cal Engineering.

Meanwhile GabrielAbad, Alma Labastida

and Aigy Rose completedBS Fisheries (VSU), BS inInormation echnology (SLSU) and BS Education(NSU), respectively.

All six graduates aredependents o agrar-ian reorm beneciar-ies (ARBs) which madethem qualied to availo the PAI oered by theDepartment o AgrarianReorm (DAR) as amongthe numerous supportservices extended un-der the ComprehensiveAgrarian Reorm Pro-gram (CARP).

According to Direc-tor Castillo, in Eastern

Visayas, there were 108recipients o the scholar-ship program who haveearned college degrees aso April o this year.

DAR started oeringthis scholarship programto deserving children o ARBs during the schoolyear 2003-2004.

Since then, 2,494 re-cipients have already graduated rom variouscourses throughout thecountry as o 2012.

Director Castillo add-ed that many o themhave landed better paying

jobs in the region and inMetro Manila.

Castillo urther dis-closed that in 2009, Mr.Omar Jayag, one o thePAI recipients in the Re-gion, placed 5th in theAgricultural EngineeringBoard exam.

Currently, Jayag is inBelgium taking up ad-

vanced studies, Mr. JoseAlsmith Soria, DAR In-ormation Ocer said.(PIA)

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