Dream in a box. Pupils of Hingotanan Elem School off Bien Unido receive the gift packs, 200 of them containe school utensils which will become a productive companion for kids who have very limited options for play in an island. The event is an outreach program of IBPAP, Cong Aris Aumentado, BICTC and PCCI. (rac/PIABohol)
HINGOTANAN ISLAND, Bien Unido, Bohol, March 24, (PIA) – Few days into the school breaks for vacation, pupils of Hingotanan in Bien Unido, get their “dreams in a box,” one that could help them spell a colorful summer.
The box are shoe boxes filled with pad paper, notebooks, crayons, pencils, pencil cases, ballpens, erasers, rulers and glue, 200 all of them for indigent kids of Hingotanan Elementary School.
Apart from that, a feeding program gathered the 200 kids in two classrooms for a packed lunch feeding program managed by the teachers, said Hingotanan principal Breeza Padillo.
“It comes to very good use especially when summer approaches and the island offers very limited options for play,” said a school teacher who asked not be named.
“Salamat sa gipanghatag,” 11 years old Marjorie Gudez said, a wide smile pasted on her face. She meekly hid her face however when asked if a photograph could be taken.
Meanwhile, another 11 year old Remie Robin, who did not get any box said he was happy for those who got their shoeboxes. He said more kids need the boxed school items more direly than he does.
A group called Information technology Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP), Congressman Aristotle Aumentado , Bohol Information Communication Technology Council (BICTC) and Philippine Call Center Institute (PCCI) crossed the seas from Ubay to deliver the kids dream boxes.
The concept started in Manila, when kids decided to gather school supplies and share them to kids needing assistance, explained IBPAP’s Raymond Lacdao, who also brought the boxes from Manila for Hingotanan’s kids from financially challenged families.
The event, billed as My dream in a box is solely intended for the 200 kids of Hingotanan, Lacdao said amidst rousing applause.
He shared that when they asked during the coordination, Congressman Aumentado picked Hingotanan, it being severly affected by the storms which ruined the island’s seaweed industry.
The volunteering group composed of Manila, Cebu and Tagbilaran City based information technology advocates handed to the kids the shoeboxes in holiday wrappers shortly after lunch.
Congressman Aris Aumentado, who could not attend the event for a speaking engagement in the city was represented by his chief of staff Dongly Camacho.
Barangay chairmen Junie Sereno and Alex Mabalata also organized barangay tanods to haul the shoeboxes from the port to the school where the events happened. (rac/PIABohol)
Years back, telecom giant Globe laid fiber optic cables around Bohol, promising for information communications technology investors a high speed internet.
This should be enough to make Bohol a new hub for a reliable business processing industry.
That was also when we heard Tagbilaran was among the picked new wave cities, some places to watch because there is a programmed call center related courses in its schools, and has a stack of natural wonders as add-ons.
The celebration has hardly dies down when no less than PLDT bigwigs came to a spectacular switching on of the P600 million Domestic Fiber Optic Network in Bohol.
That event, they said, signals another astounding promise for the largely wonder economy called business process outsourcing.
With two options for acclaimed boosted speeds, the largest processors to render a new image of Bohol way up the poverty thresholds has been installed in the province.
In fact, even with single telecom giant globe in 2013, Bohol could have opened its doors for prospectors when it bade to host the national ICT Convention.
Industry workers said tit should be the perfect show window for investors to check the island which also has history and natural beauty as a value-added benefit.
The earthquake though, proved beneficial for Boholanos who seem to shuffle on the move.
The earthquake offered the perfect excuse for Bohol to lay its ICT plans aside for other pressing matters.
After the earthquake, we should now be seeing results.
And indeed, its shows: Our call center training institutions are not churning out quality workers. Other than the signs that also say Bohol is into IT, putting even the heat in it, not much have been cooking.
This is precisely what we meant when we said Bohol was right when it dreamed of developing its IT industry.
But if the development only happens in dreams, murmuring in our sleep won’t get us the investors who would open up call center seats for us.
In fact, lip service in our sleep could get us in trouble, ask those who have secrets to tell.
Tagbilaran City, Bohol, March 24, (PIA) – May bag-o na nga mga opisyales and Bohol Information Communication Technology Council (BICTC), kini human sa piniliay atul usab sa planning workshop nga nahitabo niadtongunang semana sa Marso, didto sa Panda Tea Garden Resort.
Si Delilah Biliran, kinsa representante sa Alturas Group of Companies, maoy natumbok nga tsirman samant si Engr Jerome Auza sa Auza.net maoy napili nga vice-chair.
Si Ashley Uy, kinsa representante sa TechTalks.ph maoy napili nga kalihim samtang si Amie Rosarie Caballo ang napili nga mamahandi.
Auditor usab si Dahlia Melda T. Magno samtang si Romeo Teruel, kinsa representante sa kagamhanang probinsyal, maoy natugyanan isip Public Relations Officer.
Trustees sila Ben Skelton (Taguihon Internet Research), Roy Bayonas (PrintBit), Benjie Jamora (B&J Computer Systems), Santino Paredes (ETC Solutions), Maricel Golosino (Globe Telecommunications), Marlis Badiang (Phil. Call Center Institute), Melvin Soldia (BISU) ug si Dalareich Polot (HCIERRD Web and IT Solutions).
Gawas sa Agricultura ug Industriya nga ubay niini ug sa damgo niini nga mamahimong sentro sa eco-cultural tourism nga mga suroyanan, ang Administrasyon ni Gobernador Edgar Chatto, mitumbok na sa information communication technology isip usa sa mga kasaligang makina nga makapa-ugmad sa Bohol ug sa kapid an ka mga Bol-anon.
Tumong usab sa BICTC, nga subay sa damgo sa Administrasyon, nga makapasugod na sa call center ug business proicess outcourcing dinhi sa Bohol.
Gikan karon, hangtud sa sunod tuig, gilaraw na sa BICTC nga maka-agni og mga mamumuhunan sa BPO aron kapugngan na ang mga bag-ong mitapos sa pagtungha sa pagpanggawas sa Bohol aron adto manimpad sa laing lugar.
Mokabat sa 5,000 ka mga seats ang gihimong target sa BICTC alang sa 2016, kini bisan pa nga padayon pagihapon ang mga lakang sa pagsumpay sa Bohol ngadto sa fiber-optic hubs sa Sugbo ug Cagayan de Oro, butyag ni Delailah Biliran, tsirman.
Ang Bohol, ilabi na ang Tagbilaran, usa na sa mga natumbok nga new-wave cities diin gitagna nga magsugod ang milagrosong negosyo sa BPO. (rac/PIABohol)
Bohol, Tagbilaran City.The Department of Trade and Industryheightensits monitoring and enforcement activities on the implementation of the Philippine National Standards (PNS) forconstruction materials such as Ply wood, Steel bars and Galvanized Iron (G. I.) sheets.
DTIs enforcement arm, the Fair Trade and Enforcement Bureau (FTEB) in partnership with DTI-VII,conducted monitoring and enforcement activities herelast March 11, 2015. Two enforcement teams composed of technical experts fromFTEB and DTI-7 offices were fielded to do the actual enforcement ofsix randomly selected Business Establishments (BEs).
The activity is part of DTIs move to tighten its inspection activities for construction materials and clean up the market of uncertified and unmarked Plywoods, Steel bars and G. I. sheets.
Director Aster Caberte of DTI Region 7 said that the agency is closely monitoring standards compliance for consumer products and construction materials, especially during this time that Bohol LGUs are currently undergoing reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts after the October 2013 earthquake.Cabertealso cited provisions of Republic Act 7394 or the Consumer Act of the Philippines, which mandates DTI to conduct monitoring and enforcement activities on the proper marking and labelling of consumer products. “We have notified our field offices in the provinces to increase the frequency of their market visits to check on more products, including electrical supplies,”Caberte concluded.
Among the basic markings that consumers can check on Plywood and G. I. sheets prior to their purchase are the company name, trade name and address of the manufacturer; thickness in millimeter (mm); width in mm and the date of manufacture (month and year). G.I. sheet markings must contain the phrase“For Roofing Use” on its face.
The joint enforcement activity resulted inthe issuance of Notice of Violations to six business establishments in Tagbilaran City and Tubigon, where products did not contain propermarkings and labelling requirements as stipulated under R.A 7394, RA 4109 (Standards Law) and DAO 2, series of 2007. Total estimated value of goods seized during the activity is placed at P 258,326.00.(DTIBohol)
TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, March 23, (PIA) – Consumers should be aware that despite strict monitoring by government agencies tasked to implement product standards, some enterprising businessmen still sell products that could not pass the test of strength needed to construct disaster resilient structures.
This as the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) recently confiscated some P258,326 worth of substandard construction materials already displayed in 6 establishments from Tagbilaran City and in Tubigon town.
The DTI along with a group from the Fair Trade and Enforcement Bureau issued notices of violations to the same stores for selling construction materials that could not pass the Philippine National Standards (PNS), according to the DTI in Bohol.
According to the DTI, so as not to be fooled into buying substandard construction materials especially in plywood, deformed bars and galvanized iron sheets for roofing, consumers must do the following:
Check the basic markings on the plywood and galvanized iron (GI) sheets prior to purchase.
These basic markings include company name, trade name and the address of the manufacturer.
Also, the DTI said consumers must check the thickness in millimeter (mm); width in mm and the date of manufacture (month and year).
G.I. sheet markings must contain the phrase “For Roofing Use” on its face, DTI reminds.
DTI 7 Director Aster Caberte has said the agency is closely monitoring standards compliance for consumer products and construction materials, especially during this time that Bohol LGUs are currently undergoing reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts after the October 2013 earthquake.
She said the DTI dies this according to the mandates of Republic Act 7394 or the Consumer Act of the Philippines
The consumer Act mandates DTI to conduct monitoring and enforcement activities on the proper marking and labelling of consumer products.
“We have notified our field offices in the provinces to increase the frequency of their market visits to check on more products, including electrical supplies,” Caberte concluded. (rac/dti/PIABohol)
