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Children race across the Sta. Maria footbridge in Brgy. Ngan, Compostela, Compostela Valley. Previously, they had to wade through the waist-high waters of the Ngan River in order to get to school. The footbridge is the first barangay infrastructure projec...
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Schoolchildren in Brgy. Ngan, Compostela, Compostela Valley, who a few months ago had to wade through the waist-high waters of the Ngan River to get to school, can now stroll safely across on the footbridge built by USAIDs’ Growth with Equity in Mindana...
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U.S. Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney witnesses abalone juveniles produced by the Tawi-Tawi High-Value Multi-Species Hatchery being turned over to a fish grower’s association, comprised of former combatants of the Moro National Liberation Front. The associa...
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Robert Barnes (2nd from left), USAID economic advisor, Compostela Governor Ray Uy (3rd from left) and Janet Lopoz (far right), executive director of the Mindanao Economic Development Council (MEDCo), led the inauguration of the Sta. Maria footbridge in Br...
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Robert Barnes (4th from right), USAID Economic Growth Advisor, and Brian Doherty (3rd from right), U.S. Economic Counselor, participated in the turn-over of 36,000 books to 50 school libraries in the provinces of Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani and the City of...
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KORONADAL, SOUTH COTABATO—The 18th Mindanao Business Conference opened with a keynote speech by U.S. Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney, who stressed the importance of Mindanao to the national economy and pointed out that many of its products, such as seaweed...
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Allan Yaphockun, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) regional governor for Southern Mindanao, speaks at Davao’s Club 888 about the increasingly global orientation of the region’s private sector, and investment opportunities in trade and...
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Robert Barnes, USAID Economic Growth Advisor, shares a light moment with elementary school students after leading the turn-over of 36,000 books to 50 school libraries located throughout the provinces of Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani, and General Santos. Th...
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This coastal community in Talusan, Zamboanga Sibugay, is gearing up for increased trading and commercial activity following the recent construction of this boat landing by USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program, through its Barangay Infras...
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LAMITAN, BASILAN--Domingo Narciso, the manager of a farming cooperative here, recalls the once-tedious process of getting his co-op’s rubber, coffee and copra harvests to buyers in Zamboanga City. “It was time-consuming and costly, due to the ‘doubl...
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Members of the Tupi Balangon/ Bongulan Banana Growers Association, (TUBAGA) Inc., headed by manager Lito Apuzen (far left), show off the organically-grown bongulan bananas (native Cavendish) they export weekly to Japan, and grown on their farm in Tupi, So...
