Election roadshow
for PWDs on Sept. 6

The Fully-Abled Nation Day national roadshow will be held in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, September 6, by the Foundation for Communication Initiatives Inc.

This is conducted to increase the participation of persons with disabilities in the 2013 elections, a press release from organizers said.

FOCI managing director Criselle Capistrano is urging stakeholders to participate in the activity that will call on the Commission on Elections to ensure the easy access of PWDs to registration and polling precincts. The FAN Day will start with a disability-sensitivity workshop, followed by a media interaction, the press release also said.

Program on propagation of endemic
species of forest trees starts in NegOr
BY MARICAR ARANAS

The Philippine Forestry Education Network and the Negros Oriental State University College of Agriculture Pamplona campus have embarked on a partnership program on the propagation of endemic species of forest trees.

College dean Allan Faburada said the PFEN has released an initial P150,000 to finance the gathering of wildlings from endemic forest trees in Negros Island. He said the university agreed to the partnership as it will help boost the Bachelor of Forestry course it is offering.

Forestry students will have actual orientation on the kinds of endemic forest tree species that can be found in the island, and are presently gathering the wildlings of identified endemic forest trees in the mountains of Negros Oriental.

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