MAASIM, Sarangani (January 25, 2011) – A tourist takes a look at the Sarangani Bay early morning from Lemlunay Dive Resort’s infinity pool. (Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION)
Sarangani Bay view
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Kris dance
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MALUNGON, Sarangani (January 25, 2011) – A lovely biya (princess) of the Tagakaolo tribe dances the Lepang, a kris dance or warrior dance. Even women of the tribe must know how to defend themselves in times of danger or when an aging tribal leader needs to be defended. (Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Coco White Sand Beach
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GUMASA (January 25, 2011) – As summer is about to begin, Capitol employees play volleyball at the beachfront of Coco White Sand Beach on a weekend while the sun is about to take a dip at the horizon. Huge clouds like these reflect the sun’s colors dramatically contrasting the blue water and flakes below. (Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Support for sustainable fish exports
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Workers of Zampen Marine Aqua Venture check on grouper fingerlings stocked in floating fish cages in Baliangao, Misamis Oriental. Under its Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries Effort (SAFE), USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program provided Zampen Marine with training on sustainable fish-farming, and linked it with a Zamboanga Sibugay-based buyer which will purchase the high-value grouper for the export market once these have grown to marketable size. Since 2008, the GEM Program has helped approximately 800 growers, mostly in the Zamboanga peninsula and the island-provinces of the Sulu Archipelago, to source and stock more than 320,000 grouper juveniles. The GEM Program is implemented under the oversight of the Mindanao Development Authority. GEM
Sun-Soaked harvests bring in higher income
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A member of the Tinaguman Farmers’ Association dries corn on a 240-square-meter solar drier built by USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) under its Barangay Infrastructure Project (BIP), in Alamada, North Cotabato. Without the convenience of a solar drier, farmers generally resort to drying their grain harvests on plastic mats and sacks along roadsides, which results in longer drying periods and grain loss. This drier, built by GEM in partnership with the municipal government, has helped local growers reduce their post-harvest losses, and thereby increase their incomes. The GEM Program has completed 1,170 such “BIPs”—which also include water systems, boat landings, trading centers, and bridge and roadway upgrades—throughout conflict-affected areas in Mindanao, under the oversight of the Mindanao Development Authority. GEM
PMSNC pediatrician
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ALABEL, Sarangani (January 21, 2011) – Dr. Ramon Ortaliz, a pediatrician from Philippine Medical Society of Northern California (PMSNC), checks a child during the Grand Surgical–Medical Mission, assisted by volunteer-students from General Santos Doctors Medical School Foundation Inc. at the Provincial Capitol Monday, January 17. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Ritchie Tongo)
Mission beneficiaries
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ALABEL, Sarangani (January 21, 2011) – Vice Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon greets the beneficiaries who were availing of the free surgical–medical services of the Grand Surgical–Medical Mission at the Provincial Capitol. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Ritchie Tongo)
Hospital visit
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (January 21, 2011) – Vice Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon wears a surgical gown together with some US Army personnel in preparing to visit the operating room of SokSarGen County Hospital where major surgeries are conducted for the Grand Surgical–Medical Mission in partnership with the Philippine Medical Society of Northern California, Provincial Government of Sarangani, Maharlika Charity Foundation, Inc. and other local partners. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Ritchie Tongo)
Volunteer nurse
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ALABEL, Sarangani (January 21, 2011) – A volunteer nursing student from Brokenshire College of SocSkSarGen, Inc. checks the vital signs of a patient due for surgery at Kasfala Hall, Capitol. Nursing departments of Notre Dame of Dadiangas University and General Santos Doctors Medical School Foundation Inc., also joined the Grand Surgical–Medical Mission. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Ritchie Tongo)
Surgical–Medical Mission
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ALABEL, Sarangani (January 21, 2011) – Vice Governor Steve Chiongbian Solon checks the condition of a patient after a surgical operation at Capitol gym during the five-day Grand Surgical–Medical Mission at the Provincial Capitol and SocSarGen County Hospital. (SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE/Ritchie Tongo)
