Multivitamins distribution as among our community projects in Eastwood Residences Phase 2

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We wanted to come up with community projects that will benefit our community, and so we decided to begin as early as January starting off with the seeds and fertilizers distribution to vegetable gardening enthusiasts or just about anybody wishing to participate in the Grow Our Own Food project, an effort to encourage or inspire everyone to plant veggies as a productive way to spend their time instead of being totally dependent on buying food commercially. Planting is also a good way to keep ourselves busy and counter the stress we are experiencing especially during the pandemic.

Sponsored by Villar Sipag, many members of our community received the various seeds and a sack of fertilizer to start them on their vegetable gardening journey.

This was for the month of January, and for the follow month of February, we decided to give out multivitamins. Taking multivitamins is one way of boosting our bodies immune system against sickness or disease especially that we're experiencing the dreaded Coronavirus or Covid-19 virus pandemic.

So that's an advance Valentine's Day, or should I say Vitamins Day, treat for the senior citizens that we added on our list that we got from both residents and senior citizens of Phase 2. Since we can't give out every single one of our 500+ homes of our community, we needed to select the most needing...and that is the seniors who are more prone to weakness making them susceptible to virus infections.

On February 12, we distributed tablets of multivitamins and  capsules of Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) per senior citizen within our community.

Multivitamins distribution for our community because we believe in strengthening our immune system via multivitamins intake.

In partnership with Dr. Zen's, we will be distributing BioComplete (Vitamins + Herbs + Minerals + Probiotics) tablets, prioritizing the senior citizens, of Eastwood Residences Phase 2 here in Baranggay San Isidro Montalban, Rizal.

We got a few Ascorbic Acid  (more popularly known as Vitamin C) capsules to be given out too.

We Identified the most needing recipients but we told members of our community to please also reach out to us to make us aware of their conditions needing multivitamins assistance so we could distribute appropriately. Thus there were also non-senior citizens who received multivitamins.

Thank you, Dr. Zen's for the generous donation to our community.

We're happy that we were able to somehow help out the senior citizens and non-senior citizens of our community thanks to our generous sponsors.

Especially glad to be able to give out to even the often excluded due to various reasons. 

We have to remember that everyone was affected by this pandemic, whatever status in life, and to discriminate is not a pleasing discovery.

Multivitamins distribution at our community in Eastwood Residences Phase 2 in Montalban, Rizal is in coordination with our Team Pagbabago, a group we supposedly created to run as part of the homeowners Board of Directors...but we decided to still hold projects eventhough we don't have positions in the homeowners association.

Ang dami palang senior citizens sa community namin. Seeing their happy faces receiving free multivitamins and ascorbic acid is rewarding enough.

Please help us think of our next community project for March and the coming months that would be greatly beneficial. Small or big, it doesn't matter dahil mas ok if we could have projects every month but still continuing or sustaining our ongoing projects.

Thank you very much, Dr. Zen's . Their products are available at all Mercury Drug branches, and also on online shopping portals Lazada and Shopee. You could also get them through me to get a promotional bonus.

DepEd to expand integration of inclusivity, global citizenship topics in K to 12 curriculum

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The Department of Education (DepEd) is eyeing to advance more topics on inclusivity and global citizenship in the intended curriculum for basic education.

For years, DepEd, through the Bureau of Curriculum Development (BCD), has been updating and recalibrating its curriculum to be up to par with international curriculums, including the integration of global citizenship education.

UNESCO describes global citizenship education as one that aims to equip learners of all ages with those values, knowledge, and skills that are based on and instill respect for human rights, social justice, diversity, gender equality, and environmental sustainability and that empowers learners to be responsible global citizens.

“I am happy to share that Philippine Basic Education has gone quite far in terms of advocating GCED in the curriculum. The last three years have been very vital in establishing the structural mechanisms and support relative to the GCED at various governance levels,” BCD Director Jocelyn Andaya stated.

“With these outputs, the GCED advocacy will likely reach 27 million learners. Though much is needed to be done, the Department of Education, through the Bureau of Curriculum Development, is committed to advancing the courses of GCED in the intended curriculum. As such, may we all be challenged to push all the boundaries that limit us in optimizing the premises and possibilities of GCED,” Director Andaya added.

DepEd, through the International Cooperation Office (ICO), has been in touch with different organizations from different parts of the world to take note of their best practices, their initiatives, and projects that will help in the integration of gender sensitivity and responsiveness, cultural appreciation, and inclusivity to the DepEd curriculum.

“We believe that everyone, our learners, and ourselves included, is a global citizen. We must evolve our curriculum to focus on cultivating values and integrating concepts of global citizenship to help our learners develop into responsive and empowered individuals capable of building and rebuilding peaceful communities in their respective places,” Undersecretary for Curriculum and Instruction Diosdado San Antonio said.

“In our strokes in shaping the curriculum, we not only integrate concepts of Disaster Risk Reduction Management, gender, and cultural sensitivity, but also inclusivity and global citizenship. These are all important in sensitizing our curriculum to ensure that our learners develop holistically and embody being lifelong learners,” he added.

Lacson stands by his record and experience

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Is Sen. Ping Lacson: The most qualified, the most competent, the most experienced candidate?

Senator Panfilo “Ping” has once again proven he is truly the corruption-buster “Mr. Clean” he is touted to be. In recent articles, the presidential candidate known for his strong anti-corruption stance, was recently vindicated for previous crimes he was unjustly accused of during the Arroyo administration. No less than former President Sen. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, in her recently launched memoir entitled “Deus Ex Machina,” admitted that the accusations against Sen Lacson were fake.

“The information that was made public could not be substantiated,” GMA wrote in her memoir.

Years later, Marquez recanted accusations against Sen Lacson and apologized. Corpus also issued a publicly televised apology to Lacson for falsely accusing the senator.

True to form, the magnanimous Lacson did not hurl vindictive comments against his accusers. Instead, he tweeted a forgiving message to his former detractor. “Late is always better than never. To ex-PGMA’s credit, she has the decency and courage to admit that she publicly and unjustly accused me of various crimes based of false information. Whatever, I have already forgiven her a long time ago.”

Even in the thick of the present presidential election, Lacson maintains his nonbelligerent stance, preferring not to say anything about the other candidates wanting to be President of the Philippines because he is also running for the position.

In his recent interview session with Boy Abunda for the television personality’s series 2022 Presidential One-on-One Interviews, Lacson, one of five presidential candidates who were invited to the show, chose to talk instead about what made him best suited for the highest position in the Philippines.

“I am the most qualified, the most competent, the most experienced (candidate),” he told Abunda matter-of-factly without mentioning any of his rivals.

The candidate said it was time for voters to be discerning, to realize that politics was not entertainment and they should not be influenced by dole-outs.

In his campaign sorties, a singing and dancing Lacson would certainly not be on the program. “I won’t sacrifice authenticity,” he said, and would not do anything that had nothing to do with the country’s problems.

“The number one problem is the government, so the solution is the government- good, honest governance,” he said.

Lacson stressed, “Tough problems need tough solutions from the country’s top leaders.” His goal, if elected president, was to leave the country better off than when he started and see a greater respect for government officials.

Although he acknowledged that the qualifications for presidential candidates were so much simpler than those required of job applicants, the senator also pointed out that college degrees do not guarantee outstanding public service.

“Maraming may PhD na mas magaling magnakaw kaysa magsilbi sa bayan (there are many people with doctoral degrees who are very skilled in stealing public funds than in serving the country),” he said.

He would not oppose though some changes in the qualifications, although it would require a constitutional amendment. The job was demanding, he pointed out, and it called for skills in handling crises like the still ongoing corona virus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.

Lacson said he would lead by example if he were elected president. He recalled that he was able to minimize graft and corruption in the Philippine National Police when he was its chief by consistently showing he could not be bribed. It was his leadership by example, he said, that drastically reduced, if not totally eliminated, corruption in the police establishment.

As a senator, he did not collect the pork barrel, or extra funds allocated to legislators ostensibly to finance pet projects. He was able to save the country millions of pesos by carefully and thoroughly reviewing every proposed annual budget of the government, he said.

Lacson would push for digitization and automation in government as president so there would be no human intervention. He said, “Human intervention always resulted in corruption.”

Lacson supported the resumption of mining in the country, “a major industry” of the Philippines, but it should be sustainable and responsible. “It must be data-driven and science-based.”

However, he also expressed concern that corruption would create the same problems as before. “Corruption lets violators get away (with their crimes). Palakasan (pull or influence) allowed people with the right connections to do as they please.”

Lacson’s vice presidential candidate is Senate President Vicente “Tito” C. Sotto III.

For more info on Ping Lacson, follow https://www.facebook.com/PingLacsonOfficial.









Sen Lacson being interviewed by host Boy Abunda