QUEZON CITY Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte has acknowledged the unwavering role of women in sustaining the social, political and economic growth in her state of the city’s women address in celebration of Women’s Month.
She says: “It was high time to give due credit to our female citizens whose motherly nurturing, expertise and willingness to bravely face the challenges of leading the right way for the next generation have reaped for us what the city has today – good citizens who participate positively in the city’s development.”
Because of existing laws that protect the rights of women against violence and their right to equal opportunity, the Philippines ranks fifth in the world economic forum for countries with highest respect for the rights of women. Based on the city’s business permits and licensing office data, women have outnumbered men in terms of business ownership and management on retail, trading, restaurant and other food-service related business by as much as 21%, while 80% of the QC’s Sikap Buhay entrepreneurship and cooperative office (SB ECO) clients who avail of its micro-financing program to start a business are women and set a higher payback rate compared to men.
According to the council’s presiding officer and daughter of former mayor and now House Speaker Sonny Belmonte, the city government should come up with more safeguarding measures and programs that will spare women from any harmful circumstances.
Well that’s it, in spite of these positive turnouts that pose goodwill to local women, she stresses.
NAVOTAS’ CONTINUED SUPPORT
THE two ‘adopted’ towns of super typhoon ‘Yolanda’-ravaged Samar province continue to get more assistance and support from the Navotas City government as Mayor John Rey Tiangco assures that his administration will keep its word to help them rebuild and recover.
Mayor Tiangco issues the statement following a simple ceremony wherein Lawaan Mayor Nida Gabrones and Giporlos Mayor Mark Biong personally received some P2 million from him.
“We have always been sympathizing not only to the towns of Lawaan and Giporlos but its neighboring localities after they were badly hit by the super typhoon and we will not stop from extending help as we understand how to be in such unfortunate situation,” he says.
Extra-gratified by the support, the Lawaan and Giporlos mayors state that the financial assistance their respective towns got from their mother city (Navotas) will surely go a long way as they’ve been exerting more efforts to gradually pull through despite huge losses of lives and property after the super typhoon struck them.
The two Samar towns became Navotas’ ‘adopted’ localities in response to the call of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority which came out with the Adopt-a-City Program to help Visayas areas hugely devastated by the super typhoon in November last year.
Navotas had also established massive housing program in 2010 along with the construction of sea and river wall and several ‘Bombastik’ pumping stations after it was hit by severe storm surge during the past typhoons.
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