Earth Day 2008
AMORE initiated a coastal clean-up in Patikul, Sulu in celebration of Earth Day on April 21, 2008. Attended by Sulu Governor Sakur Tan and USAID Deputy Director Elzadia Washington, and participated in by local government units, civic organizations, and Philippine and United States troops, the activity yielded over 600 kilograms of debris picked up off Brgy. Umangay coast.
Pagalungan, MaguindanaoUSAID Bureau for Asia and the Near East Deputy Assistant Administrator Lisa Chiles based in Washington paid a one-day visit to a stronghold of the Moro National Liberation Front in the southern Philippine village of Linandangan on February 21, 2008. Full Story
Village Island of Tigtabon, Zamboanga City welcomes U.S. Ambassador and Senate Staff Delegation
U.S. Ambassador Kristie Kenney and U.S. Senate Staff delegation were welcomed with no less than the Filipinos’ world-renowned hospitality when the team came to visit the island on January 11, 2008.Congressional delegation head Paul Grove travelled in Tigtabon, an island village in southern city of Zamboanga, Full Story
Residents of New Tuburan in Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur celebrate for the first time with Colors, Sounds and Light on Christmas.
For the first time in their lives, residents of Subanen-dominated village of New Tuburan held a colorful, festive, and bright pre-Christmas celebration on December 12th. Full Story
Solar-powered Christmas tree lights up DoE grounds in celebration of the 12,000 homes lighted by AMORE
Twelve thousand lights simultaneously brightened up the evening as the 25-foot solar-powered Christmas tree, erected on the Department of Energy grounds, was switched on against a background of jovial Christmas carols.Full Story
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Young Students in the South Excel
Students from Kabuling Elementary School, a remote off-grid school in the southern Philippine town of Buluan in Maguindanao recently harvested gold and silver medals in an academic district-wide mathematics and science competition. Full Story
Water facility change lives of Muslims in Southern Philippine town.
The residents of the island municipality of Siasi in Sulu have always lived close to the sea. But now they live even closer to the waters – quite literally – with the construction of a spring-fed potable water system and twenty-one communal tap stands along the stretch of the four contiguous barangays of Siolacan, Bakud, Latung and Duggo. Full Story
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