Capitol to give P2.5 M for cooperatives, POs

TO spur its poverty reduction program further, Bohol Provincial Capitol, through governor Erico Aumentado is giving out a total of P 2.5 million worth of checks as financial assistance to 25 cooperatives and People's Organizations (PO) on December 18, 2006 at Acacia Garden, Capitol grounds. The Bohol Poverty Reduction Management Office (BPRMO) recommended the Capitol assistance and forms an early Christmas package, which the receiving organization can immediately use to prop up its projects.

The checks, each amounting to P 100T will be distributed by Aumentado and BPRMO head Antonieto Pernia to heads of cooperatives and presidents of beneficiary groups to finance their identified priority projects in a ceremony after the flag raising rites of the provincial government's employees. Set to get the financial aid are Rural Economic Development Venture Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MPC), Subayon Upland Farmers MPC, Rizal MPC and Yanaya CARP Beneficiaries Irrigators MPC of Bilar.

Maria Rosario Small Farmers Association and Riverside Small Farmers Association of Inabanga; Malitbog Agrarian Farmer Beneficiaries MPC, Candelaria MPC and San Vicente Livelihood MPC of Dagohoy. San Roque Wavers MPC, Sagbayan Sur MPC, San Vicente Sur MPC and San Antonio MPC of Sagbayan; Abucay Sur MPC, New Life MPC, Can-agong MPC and Abucay Norte MPC of Sikatuna. United Agustinian MPC of Albur; Saint Vincent Farmers MPC and United Farmers of Tabok MPC of Danao; Camapatod MPC of Loon; Malinao East MPC and Jambawan MPC of Lila. San Isidro United Farmers MPC of Trinidad as well as the Farmers and Women's MPC of Alicia are also slated to receive the said checks.

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