Friday, September 17, 2010

Aquino bares additional funding for anti-poverty program

 

President Benigno S. Aquino III bared on Thursday that two additional funding sources to increase the coverage of the government's poverty alleviation program, the Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-Cidss) to include 1.3-million more Filipino families.

 

The President said the new funding sources are part of the administration's renewed drive to garner more funding sources through public-private partnerships.

 

Without specifying an amount, the President said the World Bank had agreed to provide fresh funds for the Kalahi-Cidss program, one of three poverty alleviation measures the

government is implementing through the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

 

The other two programs are the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) which allocates conditional cash grants to qualified families provided certain requirements concerning maternal health and the education and health of their children, are met; and the Self Employment Assistance-Kabayan (SEA-K) – a sustainable livelihood project that aims to enhance the socio-economic skills of qualified Filipino families.

 

The President pointed out that the number of additional Filipino families who will get the chance to improve their lives through the anti-poverty program is still far from his target of 4.6-million families.

 

President Aquino added that the Millennium Challenge Corporation, an innovative and independent U.S. foreign aid agency that is helping lead the fight against global poverty will give a total of P5-billion for the Kalahi-Cidss program.  (PCOO/PIA)

 

 

DFA: Beware of fake Israeli hospital

 

Philippine officials in Israel reiterated early this week that there are no job openings for hospital workers in Israel, and job applicants must particularly beware of a fictitious hospital used as decoy by illegal recruiters.

 

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a release citing a report from the Philippine Embassy in Israel that  "this announcement is being issued in response to reports and queries from prospective applicants verifying job opportunities offered to them by certain unscrupulous recruiters to work in various capacities for a 'Jordan Valley Medical Center in Israel."

 

The Embassy confirmed that the "Jordan Valley Medical Center" is "fictitious and no such hospital exists in Israel," the DFA said.

 

It reiterated there are no job openings in Israel for hospital workers such as doctors, nurses, medical technicians, ambulance crew, or drivers, that are available to Filipino applicants.

 

It also reminded that Filipinos are recruited for Israel as caregivers for home care and not in hospitals.  (PIA)


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