The Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Jaime V. Ongpin Foundation, Inc. have signed a memorandum of agreement for the restoration and rehabilitation of mangroves that were severely affected in Siargao Island during the surge of Typhoon Odette.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources official lauded the government of Dumaguete City for putting up the “first MRF in the Philippines” that generates income for waste-pickers.
Workers from Ormoc City benefited from the PHP12.14 million worth of livelihood and emergency employment assistance awarded recently by the Department of Labor and Employment.
On the occasion of National Women's Month, the Nayong Pilipino Foundation organized a tree planting operation within the Entertainment City in Parañaque to establish an urban green space.
A lawmaker urged the secretary of the newly-created Department of Migrant Workers to immediately set up an online database system to track and deliver timely legal and welfare services to overseas Filipino workers.
The government will hold targeted national vaccination days in the Bangsamoro region and Cebu province next week to ramp up the country's inoculation coverage, a health official said.
The Philippines on Saturday received 1.2 million doses of Pfizer vaccine that would be used for pediatric inoculation, the National Task Force against Covid-19 said.