DAVAO DEL NORTE, June 18 (PIA)--- Some 3,000 mostly
indigenous people’s from barangay Palma Gil, Talaingod, Davao del Norte will
benefit from the downpour of services from member agencies of the
Association of Regional Executives of National Agencies (ARENA) XI and
cooperating private partners.
ARENA XI member agencies will haul tomorrow a considerable number of goods and
services which will be delivered through the ARENA XI Serbisyo Caravan
set at Sitio JBL, Barangay Sto. Nino in Talaingod, Davao del Norte.
While IPs, predominantly Ata-Manobos from Brgy. Palma Gil, are now
starting to converge in Brgy. Sto. Nino, the caravan of ARENA
member agencies will pull off from Davao del Norte Provincial Capitol ground at
6:00 a.m. tomorrow going to Brgy. JBL in Talaingod.
A ceremonial turnover of goods and services to pre-identified beneficiaries
will be done tomorrow, and that there will consultative dialogue with agency
heads who are expected to answer public queries.
Member secretaries of the Cabinet Security Cluster and other key national
agency officials are expected to join the consultative dialogue.
As of 2:00 p.m. today, ARENA XI secretariat has initially listed 30
participating national line agencies, local government units and
non-government/civic organizations that will pitch in their share of goods and
services for the 3,000 beneficiaries of tomorrow’s ARENA XI Serbisyo Caravan.
The preliminary list of partners are the regional offices of the Department of
Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the Department of Science and Technology
(DOS), National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Department of
Interior and Local Government (DILG), National Commission on Indigenous
People (NCIP), Civil Service Commission (CSC), Department of Labor and
Employment, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department
of Education (DepEd), Philippine National Police (PNP), Department of
Agriculture (DA), Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
Others are the regional offices of
the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) , Department of Agrarian Reform
(DAR), Philippine Science High School, Philippine Coconut Authority
(PCA), Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Office of the Presidential
Assistant on the Peace Process (OPAPP), Deparment of Health/ Provincial Health
Office/ Municipal Health Office, Public Attorney’s Office (PAO),
Philhealth Tagum, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), Philippine
Information Agency (PIA), Philippine Postal Corporation (PhilPost), 10th
Inf. Div. of the Philippine Army, Provincial Government of Davao del NOrte,
Municipal Government of Talaingod, Alpha Phi Omega Davao City Chapter, Mason
Plumb and Level Chapter Club Region XI Chapter. Tagum Cooperative is also among
the cooperating entities of the ARENA Caravan.
DSWD XI is expected to turn-over checks for livelihood trainings;
conduct supplementary feeding; provide on-site social pension and conduct
on-site 4Ps (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) pay-out; distribute
family food packs, wheel chairs/assistive devices, educational supplies; and
turn-over KALAHI- CIDSS Pamana Projects amounting to Php 1.3 million.
DOST XI is set to conduct technology livelihood demo, distribute 100 DOST gift
bags, turn over 500 bottles and 5 gallons of Tubig
Talino and it will also conduct a symbolic turn-over for the
Installation of STARBOOKS in Brgy. Palma Gil.
NEDA XI will conduct info dissemination, take part in the
dialogue with the municipal officials and will distribute food and non-food
Items. DILG XI will conduct legal and technical services while NCIP will offer
legal counselling, will distribute school supplies, interview scholarship grant
IP applicants and will turn over ancestral domain titles.
Other agencies will render the following services: CSC,
legal counselling assistance and processing of application on Civil
Service Exam; DOLE, awarding of livelihood projects; paying out of Emergency
Employment; DENR, distribution of 3,000 seedlings; DepED, distribution of assorted
canned goods; PNP, area security and provision of lugaw; DA,
distribtution of various farm goods amounting to Php 301,300.00; DPWH,
provision of technical services and dental services; CHED, info dissemination
on scholarship grant/application of sholarship and grant-in-aid programs of
CHED; DAR, agrarian legal assistance; Phil Science High School, scholarship
information dissemination drive; PCA, info dissemination to coco farmers;
BFAR, fingerling dispersal of 20,000 to 30,000 pcs. of Tilapia;
TESDA, advocacy training; OPAPP, distribution of educational kits
for grades 1 to 3).
Meanwhile the merged forces of DOH/ PHO/MHO will
deliver medical consultation, vaccinations, minor surgeries, malaria
screening, family planning, immunization, pre-natal with mother-baby kits,
cataract screening, dental services with oral hygiene kit, giving of food packs
and other services.
PAO is expected to conduct legal services; PhilHealth,
to conduct information of availment of the Philhealth membership; BJMP,
to provide dental services; PIA, to conduct media coverage; Phil
Post, to provide transportation service for medical services while the
10th Inf. Div. of the Philippine Army has
conducted of Needs Assessment Survey (NAS), provided security in the
area, logistics, and handled the physical arrangement.
The local governments of Davao del Norte and Talaingod has
provided the accommodation of guests, logistics and handled other preparations
while the Alpha Phi Omega Davao City Chapter will distribute of 300 pairs
of slippers , and that the Mason Plumb and Level Chapter Club Region XI
will distribute school supplies. Tagum Cooperative is preparing lugaw
good for 1,000 persons and vitamins for children.
ARENA XI has been rendering Serbisyo
Caravan targeting poor communities in distant places to bring government
services right at the community level. (PIA 11/ Jeanevive Duron-Abangan)
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