What Becomes of A Pro-Poor Town

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 02:37

Asipulo folks raise their hands to participateBy Myla Dulnuan
Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer
Municipality of Asipulo
Ifugao

Our town became officially pro-poor in the year 2006.

The municipal councilors and the local chief executive of Asipulo proposed and approved The Pro-Poor ordinance stating “No Barangay Assembly (BA), No Annual Investment Plans (AIP) Approval” after the three-year implementation of KALAHI-CIDSS.

At the time the ordinance was made legal, KALAHI-CIDSS, which was launched in Asipulo in 2003, had ingrained in us the importance of consulting constituents in matters of development. It had also completed 21 infrastructure sub-projects that included farm-to-market roads, solar driers and health stations using the community-driven development approach.

Our local officials approved the ordinance to sustain the principles and gains from the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS).

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Lun Padidu’s Recipe for Success

Monday, 01 March 2010 09:45

(Editor's Note: Below is the entry of the third prize winner of the 2009 KALAHI-CIDSS Essay Writing Contest for High School)

 Hazel Joy Doctolero

By Hazel Joy L. Doctolero   
Barangay Lun Padidu, Malapatan, Sarangani Province
Lun Padidu National High School
                   
Bare grounds and dilapidated makeshift buildings filled my eyes the first time I entered the school grounds of Lun Padidu National High School during my elementary days.

LPNHS used to be our playground during our free time.

In my first day of high school freshman at LPNHS, I was awed by the new three-classroom building.

“Wow!” I thought to myself. I also offered a silent prayer for God to let me be in one of the classrooms.

I really had no idea why and how the classrooms in LPNHS transformed

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I Raise My Hand For KALAHI-CIDSS

Wednesday, 24 February 2010 07:49

(Editor’s Note: The article below was awarded third place in the 2009 Essay Writing Contest for College)        

Don Juan Vercelos Water SystemBy Joy P. Lamod
Barangay Don Juan Vercelos, San Francisco, Quezon
Polytechnic University of the Philippines-MQ

As a child, the swelling of the river in our barangay was not my concern every time there was a 24-hour downpour.

Back then, I was more troubled about the strong current of water washing out the bamboo bridge that we used to get to the other side of the river. 

While this might have bothered me, people in our community, including my family faced the bigger problem of where to get potable water for the next two to three days. For our barangay, heavy rains meant our balon or shallow well, a hole about 20 feet in the ground, cannot supply us clean drinking water.

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