Video: Agri-Lakaran

Children and Children's Rights

This video is taken during the seminar on Rights of Children.

Give a child a chance in life..

With a population of more than 97 million, the Philippines has enormous social problems. The divide between rich and poor is very wide; 30% of the population live below the poverty line (i.e. on less than $1 a day). For many Filipino children, the conditions are desperate. City slums are constantly growing, child labour is widespread and, according to a 2000 UNICEF estimate, more than 200,000 children live on the streets. The UN has identified the Philippines as one of the worst Asian countries for child trafficking, stemming from poverty, family breakdown, poor educational and employment opportunities, among other things.

 The International Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children have a right to receive care, protection and respect.

The Philippines has signed and ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, however, many government policies and practices still do not include or recognize children.

Some Barangay Staffs - 2012

Smile!  These barangay staffs take time to have a picture taking from their work during
the light a tree contest at the barangay plaza.

Barangay Cannery Site Got an Award

Cannery Site officials with Board Member Honey Lumayag Matti and husband (extreme right)
during the ABC Night at the Polomolok gymnasium.

Child-Friendly Barangay

Police Officer giving an input
on how to apprehend a child

Rule No. 2:  MANNER OF APPREHENDING-
Don not attract public attention.
Do not use handcuffs unless absolutely necessary.
Do not inflict injury on the child.

Rule No. 3:  SPEAKING TO THE CHILD
Speak in a language/dialect understood by the child.
Tell the child the reason why you apprehend him/her.

Rule No. 4:  PROTECTING THE CHILD
Do not expose the child to the media.
Do not expose the child to any party familiar with the case
Protect the child from possible public humiliation or outrage.

Rule No. 5: DOCUMENTING THE INCIDENT
Accomplish the intake form and secure
necessary information from the child.

Rule No. 6: PROHIBITION AGAINST LOCK-UP
Do not lock up the child in a police cell.

Rule No. 7:  CICL IN THE COMPANY OF ADULT OFFENDER
For cases involving 15 years old and under who committed offense in complicity with or in company of an adult/s, guardian/s, stranger/s, etc. refer to the Police Station for filing of the appropriate case against the adult.
(CICL means Children In Conflict with the Law.)

Day Care Teachers: video

These are photos during the 17th Annual Provincial Day Care Teachers Convention 2012

A day care teacher is one of the first guardians of the mind of a child.

Daycare teachers work primarily with children who are too young to start preschool, from infants to 5-year-olds. You’ll be nurturing the young, impressionable minds of the future, stimulating their physical, emotional, intellectual and social growth.

A daycare teacher is a type of preschool teacher who provides child care and education to children who are too young to attend elementary school.

Cannery Day Care Teachers Provincial Convention-2012

The Day Care teachers, the molders of young minds.
The wrapped thing in the middle is a baby.  A daycare-
teacher mom brings her baby just to attend the 17th  Daycare
 Teacher Provincial Convention -2012.

In spite of being tired and sleepy, they are all smiles.

Culinary And Pastry Contest

Please, click the video below.

5th Pinyahan Festival Barangay Cannery Site Beauties

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. 
John Keats 

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. 
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. 

Mother Teresa 

Float Contestant

Float contestant of barangay Cannery Site to Flomlok Festival

Barangay Captain "Nono" Octavio
with family aboard the float.

HRDC HALL

This is the Human Resource Development Centerl Building.  The second floor  is the social hall and engineering office and below are the different offices.

Agri-Lakaran Sa Gulayan

Organic food

Organic foods are foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticidesand chemical fertilizers. Organic foods are also not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or chemical food additives. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )

Bgy. Kag. Esposado, encharge of Committee on Agriculture- 2012

I came over this site, it's worth reflecting.

Organic foods: Are they safer? More nutritious?

Discover the real difference between organic foods and their traditionally grown counterparts when it comes to nutrition, safety and price.

Bahay Pamahalaan

Barangay Cannery Site (Backspace in Time )

The back portion of the barangay hall

Way back in the mid-fifties 50’s when I was yet a boy I have a hazy memory of a place.  Seemingly uninteresting land with big stones, that looked from a distance as if carabaos were lying on their sides resting, or grazing.  “Sida-sida” grasses, as they were called ( If I’m not be mistaken), occupied a vast portion of it.  They usually grew after the area was harvested with some cash crops like potatoes, corn, palay, and others like leaf onions. These grasses when flowering made the scenery awesome because at an early stage its flower turns from yellowish to pinkish then red on maturity.  They were good playing grounds and hiding places for quails that abound in the place.  Quails were a good catch for food. 

Sida-sida grass

Some parts of the land that were not tilled were territories of cogon grasses and talahibs.  The place was often reached by fogs coming from the very impressive dark green and blue colored Mount Matutum.   Most mornings were cold and foggy.  But daytime can be warm.  Small shallow slopes lined the somewhat rolling terrain where a road from Polomolok Poblacion passed toward far-off farms.  Some part of the road was a little older for a path in size.  Usually, the only clearing of the road was where the wheel of a “vargas” type of “kariton” or wooden cart and pulling cattle usually passed.  The absence of rain for many days would make the road dusty that can be noticed only when it was foot-dragged when walking or the wind blew upon it.

Sida-sida grass

There was no source of water in the neighborhood.  Drinking water was carried usually by wooden carts from the artesian wheel at the center of the Polomolok.  Transporting water with “kariton” would mean carrying enough water for the carabao to drink also.  Bathing the carabao was at the Klinan River almost four kilometers away.  During the dry season, water was handled economically.  Washing dishes needed a basin to hold water for the carabao to drink.  Taking one’s bathe was on top of a basin or some container to hold water; again for the carabao to drink or to splash on it for its bath.  Never forget this large cattle it was a helper of a farmer.  Rainy days were happy days, the time of abundant water.  Galvanized drum acting as the water tank is readied to catch rainwater from an improvised gutter attached to a rust-eaten roof of a hut.  

Farm lots, that seldom have farmhouses, were of twelve hectares.  Neighboring houses that were most of the time is used only during planting and harvesting time, were far from each other.  The sound of twittering quails and the whizzing of the wind were music to the ears of a poor, young boy like me.   We planted cash crops.   I can still remember how, together with my older brother and my widowed mother,  ran to and fro on all corners of our corn field driving away swarms of locusts that were trying to make a landing.  It was nearing twilight and if ever the pests could make their touchdown they will sleep there and it will be goodbye for the corn. 

The place has lots of bittersweet childhood memories for me.  I love this place.  This place is Barangay Cannery Site.

Brief History of Barangay Cannery Site

Brief History

Barangay Demo Farm

Barangay Cannery Site used to be part of the old Poblacion of the Municipality of Polomolok. Farm lots, which were products of the land distribution scheme of the NLSA, dot the rolling landscape of the area. The coming of Dole Philippines, Inc. in the ’60s brought about major change not only in the topographical landscape but also in the arrival of people from as far as the Luzon and Visayas Islands and neighboring provinces who seek greener pastures. Communities flourished and commercial activity in the area improved due to the massive employment campaign of Dole Philippines, Incorporated, bringing in more people from neighboring municipalities who established residence in the area. 

In August 1986, a petition letter, was forwarded to the Barangay Council of Barangay Poblacion chaired by then Barangay Captain Eustaquio F. Candari, Sr. . Resolution no. 33 of the Barangay Council was then forwarded to the Municipal Officials favorably endorsing the petition for the creation of Barangay Cannery Site. In November of the same year, Resolution no.74 series of 1986 of the Sangguniang Bayan was passed and approved giving full status and personality of and for the conversion of Barangay Cannery Site. In December of the same year, resolution no 477 enacting Ordinance no.22 of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of the Province of South Cotabato was passed and approved creating Cannery Site into a regular barangay of the Municipality of Polomolok.

Roberto C. Jimena was a barangay Captain of
 Cannery Site.  He was appointed barangay captain after
  the plebiscite and won succeeding elections hereafter making
him serve the barangay for more than sixteen consecutive years.
http://matutumformunicipalitymovement.blogspot.com
/2008/06/proponent-was-defeated-will-dream.html

By a plebiscite, Cannery Site was officially created into a regular Barangay in September 1991. (Source: Barangay Cannery Site Profile )

SIMULATED ACCIDENT

Barangay Captain Octavio observed
 the red cross simulation of accident. 

 

 It was a clear sunny day when firetruck sirens break the usual monotonous day of barangay Cannery Site.   There's an accident in the crossing.  People who heard flocked to the place of the accident.  Blood covered the sprawling bodies of the mishap victims.  But no cause for fear, it was just a Red Cross simulation of an accident on what to do on such a situation.

It was participated by Cannery Site personnel and residents.  It aims to improved the barangay's preparedness in these cases.

As was described by one of the barangay personnel Hector P. Hilado: "It was a really adrenalin-fueled day for the Barangay Local Government of Cannery Site. . . festival prep the whole day. . .funds sourcing in between. . . Disaster Management and tailored First Aid Training culmination and vehicular accident simulation plus Barangay Fire Fighters' Training and simulation. . . the public was in total shock seeing the simulation. . .the news (text ) brigade of the "accident" at the intersection was viral. . . our apologies for the traffic congestion. . .but then again, congratulations to the participants and to the facilitators. . . ."