Thursday, June 20, 2013

USAID implements 8 GEM Program Infra-Projects in ComVal

COMPOSTELA VALLEY PROVINCE-----The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is now starting to implement the construction of their eight (8) Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program Infrastructure Projects for the province.

GEM Infra Projects Provincial Coordinator Florentino G. Go, Jr. of the Provincial Planning & Development Office (PPDO) said that the USAID aims to finish the 8 infra projects by August of this year.

Monkayo will be the beneficiary of three projects which are intended for Sitio Mahayahay Brgy. Bridge Repair in Brgy. Baylo; Purok Duranta Brgy. Bridge Repair in Brgy. Union and;  Sitio Santol Brgy. Bridge Repair in Brgy. Salvacion.

They have two projects also for Compostela municipality, the Overflow (Spillway) Structure Rehabilitation at Brgy. Ngan and the Trading Center at Brgy. Poblacion in which  Governor Arturo T. Uy and USAID-Philippines Mission Director Gloria Steele led its  ceremonial ground breaking on June 14, 2013.

The other three shall be a Trading Center at Brgy. Aguinaldo, Laak, Brgy. Bridge construction at Brgy. Panag, New Bataan, and the construction of Lebanon-San Jose Bridge in  Montevista.

Aside from these projects, USAID together with DepEd Central office’s Chief of Staff Asst. Secretary Reynaldo Antonio Laguda also turned-over armchairs, teacher’s tables and chairs, and pupils’ school bags with school supplies to Cabinuangan Elementary School in New Bataan through Mr. Marcelino Delos Reyes, the School Principal on June 14. (grace almedilla/ gilbert m. cabahug, ids-comval)

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