Tambuling Batangas Publication January 03-09, 2018

The last homily ... p. 4 The Best Choice for Design & Quality VOLUME XLI No. 02 Enero 03-09, 2018 P6.00 For quotation requests, please contact us at (049) 834-6261 or email us at sinagprinting@ gmail.com MMDA, partners launch Pasig River Art project MAKATI CITY -- The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), in partnership with the British Council will launch Wednesday (Dec. 13) the “Pasig River Art for Urban Change” project via a river cruise. The project which expands on nine pumping stations (Arroceros, Aviles, Binondo, Escolta, San Francisco, Makati, Paco, Quiapo, and Valenzuela) can now be viewed by the public by riding the river ferry or going around roads and bridges along the Pasig River. MMDA Assistant General Manager for Operations Roberto Almadin said the project is one of the agency’s efforts to create more liveable and inclusive cities through the regeneration of urban waterways and also to encourage the public to reconsider the ferry as a mode of transportation to decongest road traffic. Leeroy New and Janno Abenoja of LABNEW were earlier commissioned to kick start the initiative last November. Other artists that lend their skills for the project include Archie Oclos, Cristina Lina and Malarko Hernandez, Ged Alangui, Julius Sebastian, Kris Abrigo, Luigi Almuena, Ralph Eya and Team Manila Graphic Design Studio. Lina and Hernandez are both based in the United Kingdom and traveled to Manila specifically for the project. Over 100 people, including volunteers and MMDA employees, were also part of the art production. The Pasig River Art for Urban Change is a mula sa pahina 3 Fluvial procession ng Sto. Niño muling dinagsa ng mga deboto BATANGAS CITY Isang paraan ng pagpapakita ng malaking pananampalataya ng mga deboto ng Mahal na Patrong Sto Nino ang taunang pagdaraos ng fluvial procession ng Sto. Nino sa Calumpang River. Ito ay isang religious activity na idinadaos tuwing simula ng nobena ng kanyang kapistahan tuwing ika-16 ng Enero. Noong ika-5 ng Enero, bandang ala una ng hapon nang sunduin ang imahe ng Sto. Niño sa Basilica of the Immaculate Conception nina Mayor Beverley Rose Dimacuha at Congressman Marvey Marino. Habang dumadaan sa may Julian A. Pastor Memorial Elementary School o JAPMES, nagwagayway ng mga banderitas ang mga eskwela bilang pagpupugay sa Sto. Niño. Tumuloy ang motorcade patungong Batangas City Convention Center kasama sina Father Aurelio Dimaapi, parish priest ng Basilica, Fr. Gerard Macalinao at iba pang lay ministers kung saan idinaos ang Alay sa Sto. Niño Cultural Presentations. Nagtanghal dito ng production numbers ang 13 lumahok na paaralan sa temang “Alay sa Sto. Niñong Mahal: Ating Tagumpay”. Ang mga ito ay ang Marian Learning Center and Science Highschool, Colegio ng Lungsod ng Batangas, Lyceum of the Philippines University- Batangas, Casa Del Bambino Emmanuel Montessori, University of Batangas, Golden Gate Colleges, Batangas State University, Westmead International School, Sunhill Montessori Casa, Divine Child Academy, BANAHIS, Saint Bridget College at Cristo Rey Institute for Career Development. Pagkatapos ng cultural presentations, sundan sa pahina 3 The Pasig River Art Project (Photo courtesy of British Council) Philippine Inter-Agencies eye reviving HPAP, integrating its agenda to NEHAP project and program proposals. CALAMBA CITY, Laguna -- In the aim to update initiatives in realizing the Health and Pollution Action Plan (HPAP) and to incorporate its agenda to the National Environment and Health Action Plan (NEHAP), different Philippine Inter-Agencies convened for a Preliminary Meeting on Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) at SEARCA, UP Los Banos last November 12. “In terms of pollution, our indicators are our children,” United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Consultant Ernie Wijangco said, recounting his experience whenever his child gets an asthma attack which signifies exposure to unclean air. He explained that our country has a high population of young people and the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) identified the need to maximize the state’s demographic dividends by promoting a productive labor force. However, he pointed out that “If these kinds of pollution affect the cognitive level in development of our children, of our incoming workforce, then we cannot capacitate a more productive labor force. The UNIDO representative expressed that the inter-agency meeting was administered not to come up with projects but to have programmatic levels of concept and types of intervention where everybody has to work together. He also assured that UNIDO is really committed to the endeavor of minimizing pollution as they already have existing programs and partnerships to contribute in addressing this concern. Pure Earth Philippines National Director Larah O. Ibanez shared a brief introduction about Pure Earth, Inc. “Our main mission as an international non-profit is to identify toxic sites around the world, particularly from toxics that are not given much attention like heavy metals and whenever funding is available come up with small and medium scale or pilot clean- ups in order to protect public health,” she said. With regard to health and pollution agenda, the Director emphasized that the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health Report which was launched and presented in the plenary prior to the meeting was produced in order “to draw attention to pollution as a leading cause or risk factor in deaths worldwide.” She has shared the difficulty to solicit grants and funding for pollution-related Thus, they had always needed to instead relate pollution to more popular issues that are globally recognized and paid attention to like gender, women, children, and climate change, among many others. “As presented during the plenary, if we don’t pay attention to pollution and all these environmental problems, we are actually undermining our future productivity, we are doing injustice to our children and even to our environment and economics,” she stated. The Global Alliance in Health and Pollution is a collaborative body in the international arena formed by Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank, all the United Nations (UN) Agencies, and all other Governments who signed in to become part of GAHP with the purpose of assisting countries in addressing pollution, as elaborated by Director Ibanez. “They are also instrumental in the Lancet Report and very much pushing for the health and pollution action planning in the countries where we have investigated pollution,” she explained. P h i l i p p i n e Information Agency (PIA) senior Information Officer Manites Paneda expressed the Agency’s commitment to assist in information dissemination to popularize sundan sa pahina 6

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