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Saturday, November 8, 2014

DLSU-D 1st Pinoy school in global sustainable group



A Filipino university has finally been admitted to the world network of top colleges and universities employing sustainable principles and measures in their educational institutions.
De La Salle University-Dasmariňas (DLSU-D) in Cavite province, Philippines joins over 60 members from 26 countries including Harvard University, Yale University, ETH Zurich and National University of Singapore, all top-notch educational institutions which have bonded as the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) since 2007 to create and maintain conditions where humans and nature can exist in productive harmony.
DLSU-D takes pride in practicing what it preaches. Students learn about and apply environmentalism right in their own campus and not just from books and within the classroom. The academic community nests amid a 27-hectare campus teeming with greens, a lake, a botanical garden and a 13,000 strong student body with 400 employees which practice measures to reduce their carbon footprint with the use of electric vehicles, reduce wastes, conserve energy and water, and campaign for awareness and affirmative action.
ISCN compels members to measure sustainability targets and efforts and submit charter reports based on standards set by ISCN members. As an ISCN member, DLSU-D has also pledged support for the Sustainable Campus Charter developed by ISCN in collaboration with the World Economic Forum’s Global University Leaders Forum (GULF).
DLSU-D is also the first academic institution in the Philippines be accepted in the International Association of Universities – Higher Education for Sustainable Development (IAU-HESD) , a portal service providing access to inspirational actions and initiatives developed around the world.
DLSU-D was also recently included in the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking for institutions combating global climate change.


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Honest Filipino Airport Police returns 400K to owner

A Manila airport employee has once again affirmed the unique Filipino hospitality and honesty.
For Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) airport police Pablito Morales, he was just doing his job of securing passengers and their belongings. For Filipino-British Liwayway Navarro, Morales represented the best face of the Philippines.

Passenger Navarro and her husband were bound for Hong Kong and about to board their flight when she realized her trolley bag was missing. The couple then decided to voluntarily offload themselves to look for the bag which contained jewellery and other personal effects with an estimated value at PhP 400,000 or about USD 9,300.
Navarro sought the help of NAIA Terminal 2 airport cop Morales to find her lost trolley bag at the NAIA’s pre-departure area. Morales coordinated with the Bureau of Immigration and the airline for the couple’s voluntary offloading. He then personally searched the entire terminal until he spotted a luggage left at the passenger’s exit area. Navarro confirmed the luggage was hers.

Morales has been an airport cop for 23 years and says it’s the fourth time he was able to return items
left behind by owners. He actually felt relieved he was instrumental in returning the belongings of Navarro and the other airport passengers. He says he believes “good karma” awaits him and his family every time he is able to help find lost items.
Morales reveals he gets to bring home to his four children only PhP 2,000 every payday as the rest of his PhP 23k pay check goes to loan payments. Morales is the sole breadwinner of his family.
Morales is one of the 35 airport personnel recently awarded by Manila International Airport Authority with certificates of commendation for acts of goodness in helping passengers.


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Typhoon Yolanda survivors rebuilding lives, a year on

Coconut farmer Pacalan Wenefredo has taken to growing rice.

Fisherman Napoleon Caramol is planning to raise pigs.
Housewife Felipa Balbuana, a mother of four, has signed up for her first job in years, sewing backpacks.
Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), the strongest storm on record to hit land when it slammed the Philippines on Nov. 8 last year, have had to adapt in a bid to rebuild their lives in the wake of the storm that killed or left missing about 7,000 people.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimates 5.6 million workers in a nation of about 100 million saw their means of earning a living ruined or seriously impaired by the disaster – and about a third of those affected were already poor.
Crops were destroyed, boats ripped apart, and houses flattened as the typhoon powered across the central Philippines, packing winds of up to 315 km an hour (195 miles) and causing seven metre (23 feet) storm surges.
Wenefredo, 59, had worked for 20 years on land held for generations in his family in the inland village of Cancaiyas in central Philippines to produce copra, the dried kernel used for making coconut oil but Haiyan destroyed 80 percent of his trees.
The Philippines is one of the world’s largest producers of coconuts, with exports averaging $1.5 billion annually in recent years and the government estimates the damage cost $38 million which is a fortune for many small scale farmers.
Aware it could take six to eight years for newly replanted coconut trees to reach maturity and return to full production Wenefredo turned to rice farming using cash assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
It is much less profitable but Wenefredo said he had no choice. He has just sold his first harvest, halving his income, but he needs money to repay debts incurred before the storm.
“We will continue with the rice farming. It is our only source of living at the moment,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation, sitting on a bench in the stiflingly hot living room of fellow coconut-farmer-turned-rice-farmer Gerry Baclayo, 44.

FORCED INTO POVERTY

Baclayo nodded in agreement.
“Less than half of our needs are covered by the income … we do extra labour work,” he said. “We borrow money, sometimes without interest, sometimes with 10 percent interest, so we can buy fish because it’s hard to eat just rice.”
In its path of destruction, Haiyan damaged about 33 million coconut trees from a national total of about 300 million, and affected the livelihoods of more than a million farmers, according to the Philippines Coconut Authority (PCA).
The ADB estimates Haiyan drove an additional one million people below the poverty line with more than 1.3 million people needing emergency relief in the aftermath of the disaster, according to the ICRC. The typhoon displaced up to 4 million.
A priority now is to clear fallen coconut trees covering swathes of land in areas hit by Haiyan to avoid the threat of pest infestation and clear the way to replant and rebuild homes.
“Our estimate is coconut rehabilitation will take about five to 10 years. We will need about 20 million coconut seedlings,” said Edilberto Nieva, head of the PCA in Eastern Visayas.
“We are telling the farmers to do inter-cropping so they can start making money immediately. This means planting things like young corn and vegetables that they can consume and sell.”
Initial data from the ICRC shows that farming, rearing livestock and setting up local convenience stores are the top three income generators for people given grants to restart.
Pigs, goats, and chickens and produce for convenience stories are among the most popular items bought by survivors.
Fisherman Napoleon Caramol, 44, has planted root vegetables in his garden and is planning to rear pigs with his wife.
His wife Elizabeth was nine months pregnant with their ninth child when Haiyan swept away their rickety home on a coconut farm in Marabut municipality in the central Philippines.
They took refuge with 60 other families in a hillside cave, one of many dotted along the beautiful, winding coastline in Samar province, during the storm. His wife feared for her life but delivered a healthy boy five days later named Cavein Cuevas.
Emerging from the cave, however, they had to rebuild their home and lives, just relieved they had never taken on any debt.
“The typhoon left a big hole in our small paddle boat and destroyed parts of our fishing nets. They’re beyond repair,” said 36-year-old Elizabeth Caramol.
“Now if we do not get fish or cannot buy rice we eat root vegetables … we are planning to raise pigs with the grant from (child health care charity) Terres des hommes and maybe I’ll set up a small grocery stall.”
The ICRC has offered vocational training in sustainable farming, hog rearing, bookkeeping and arithmetic, and advice on how to diversify and grow businesses to help survivors.
Work on rebuilding areas hit by Haiyan is continuing, with President Benigno Aquino only approving a $3.74 billion master plan to rebuild housing, social services and public infrastructure at the end of October 2014.
Many families had to adjust to survive.
Felipa Balbuana had not worked for years and is now one of around 20 typhoon survivors working in a factory in Tacloban, the worst hit city, to produce backpacks and help supplement her husband’s increasingly meager income as a fish vendor.
Members of the Leyte Union of Producers of Agricultural Products, a local farming union, lost their livelihoods and are working with the International Organization of Migration to use lumber from coconut trees to build temporary shelters.
“The fallen and damaged coconut trees are our last resources. We have to use our meagre resources instead of waiting for somebody to help,” said Noel Inot, 39, a coconut farmer and member of the union.
But while survivors of Haiyan work hard to rebuild their lives, the devastation and deaths caused by Haiyan, the deadliest typhoon in the Philippines on record, has left them concerned about their security and that of their children.
“I do worry about our future. A storm like that could happen again and next time we may not survive,” said Elizabeth Caramol.
- See more at: http://www.goodnewspilipinas.com/typhoon-yolanda-survivors-rebuilding-lives-year/#sthash.OeRJBIuz.dpuf