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GoLEAD PH is an official youth leadership collective arm of the United Young Leaders Coalition, established in 2020. It is a Cebuano organization with the goal of creating in-house grassroots projects to develop young leaders and mobilize various stakeholders to a common goal of nation-building and greater civic engagement. Last year, the organization had different […]
FilPass Tamperproof Tech Inc. launched on July 23 the Industry-Academe Linkage for Construction Series in pursuit of introducing its flagship project, the Construction Industry One Registry System or CIORS, to the Philippine construction industry, academe, and non-profit organizations. As part of the 4-part series, FilPass will be holding a panel discussion titled, “Industry Academe Linkage […]
Quezon City District 2 Councilor Winnie Castelo and two other city councilors are proposing the appropriation of P1 billion as “ayuda” or aid for poor families in Quezon City who have been left out in the national government’s social amelioration program (SAP) during the two-week hard lockdown in Metro Manila. The three introduced in the […]
More Filipinos will go hungry if the proposed budget of the Department of Agriculture (DA) is cut further, Senator Kiko Pangilinan said. “Mas maraming magugutom kung babawasan pa ang perang ilalaan ng pamahalaan para sa sakahan, pagbababoy, pangingisda (More will go hungry if the money allotted by the government to farming, hog-raising, fishery is reduced),” […]
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has re-intensified its isolation facilities in preparation for the COVID-19 surge as the Department of Health (DOH) recorded more than 8,000 new cases recently. PRC had previously turned unused classrooms at Ateneo, UP, Benilde, and Makati Science High school into isolation facilities in response to the COVID-19 surge that happened […]
Rizal 2nd District Rep. Fidel Nograles lauded the launching of a gender-sensitive COVID-19 database, saying this could help local government units tailor-fit their response to the pandemic. Citing a need to “draw gender-specific insights based on COVID-19 epidemiological and socio-economic data,” the National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP), an attached agency of the Department […]
The health department should identify and address its procurement and supply chain chokepoints that seem to be the subject of the latest COA findings of “deficiencies” in the management of some P67 billion in COVID-19 funds in 2020, Senator Joel Villanueva said. “Ang COA report po ay parang MRI scan ng paggamit ng pondo. Itong […]
In response to President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s directive to intensify the campaign against corruption, the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) and the Union of Local Government Authorities (ULAP) have joined forces to establish the Provincial Anti-Corruption Committees. According to ULAP President and Quirino Governor Dax Cua, they are supporting the PACC in its pursuit to substantially […]
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has tested 3,749,152 for COVID-19, which is 21.80 percent of the country’s total testing numbers, making PRC the country’s leading agency when it comes to COVID-19 testing. “Even with the ECQ [enhanced community quarantine], this August, Red Cross has been testing 8,530 a day,” PRC Chairman and CEO Senator Dick […]
Amid reports that children are susceptible to the Delta variant of COVID-19, a group of educators has backed the government’s plan to start COVID-19 vaccination for minors aged 12 to 17 by the end of September. “We support starting the vaccination of children against COVID-19 as soon as possible, because we believe vaccination will be […]