It’s not only the duty of the government “but you owe it to
yourselves and the future to maintain and safeguard the use of these
facilities,” Goldberg said in his short speech before the barrio folks,
schoolchildren, public school teachers and visitors during his visit here
Friday.
The ambassador inaugurated and met the beneficiaries of a
one-classroom school building sub-project funded by the US government’s $ 434-million Millenium
Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact in the Philippines
It was learned that the barangay people are the ones who
chose the school building sub-project as priority considering that they lack
classrooms “to accommodate the growing number of enrollees in this barangay.
He said that the “participation and sacrifice of community
volunteers in preparing, developing and implementing and monitoring the
sub-projects based on identified needs should be commended.”
Citing the "bayanihan" (teamwork/cooperation) of
the barrio folks, the ambassador said he saw the cooperation and resiliency of
the townsfolk in the completion of the building.
“I have seen Bohol to rise
by the earthquake in 2013. It has changed the lives of Boholanos but what I
have witnessed so far is a kind of change that is transformation and
demonstrates the resilient nature of the people of this province.”
The school building completion was possible under the
Kapit-Bisig laban sa Kahirapan- Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social
Services, a project of the DSWD. The MCC supported the Kalahi-CIDSS through a $
120 million grant supervised by Millenium Challenge Account-Philippines.
MCC has provided a total of Php125,801,639 for Bohol ’s 12 towns with completion of 232 basic
infrastructure sub-projects. These include the farm-to-market roads, water
systems, schools that benefited more than 5,000 households in 22 barangays in
this town, the ambassador said.
Goldberg led the ceremonial unveiling of the school building
marker along with Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman, Governor Edgardo
Chatto, Mayor Ricardo A. Toribio, and other officials.
“Kalahi-CIDSS is a community-driven development project that
aims to strengthen and empower communities by involving them in the entire
project completion process. It allows them to prioritize their community’s
needs and take responsibility for the management of funds, procurement of
resources and completion of a sub-project.”
The ambassador hastened to say: “Kalahi-CIDSS principles
resonate well with the US
A day before, Goldberg witnessed the signing of Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) that picked Tagbilaran City under the Cities Development
Initiative (CDI). City Mayor John Geesnell Yap II and country mission director
Gloria Steele of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
signed the MOU.
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