2,450 IP households in Pampanga benefit from relief drive

CI T Y OF SAN FERNANDO -- About 2,450 Indigenous Peoples households in Pampanga benefitted from the relief drive conducted by various government institutions, which was done in partnership with National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP).

“The NCIP Community Service Center located in the municipality of Floridablanca was able to respond to the emerging needs and situations of the

Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs) within its area of responsibility which covers the municipalities of Floridablanca and Porac and city of Angeles. They coordinated with concerned local government units for the delivery of immediate needs such as food and water amid the COVID-19 pandemic,” NCIP Regional Director Ruben Bastero said.

Moreover, Department of Social Welfare and Development and Clark Development

Corporation distributed food and nonfood items.

“The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office assisted our IPs severely affected by the community quarantine in all their necessary medical and transportation needs,” Bastero added.

Community leaders and Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representatives played a significant role in monitoring and reporting of situations and relevant information to ensure that goods are continuously being delivered to the I CCs.

Resolution No. 41 of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases placed the provinces of Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales as well as the cities of Angeles and Olongapo under General Community Quarantine from June 1-15. --Carlo Lorenzo J. Datu/ PIA3

Bacolor— Don Honorio Ventura State University will start classes on August 24, 2020 for its Laboratory High School (LHS) and Senior High School (SHS) departments.

University President Dr. Enrique G. Baking said this in compliance with the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) approved Department of Education decision on the start of classes.

Baking stated that the classes of the secondary levels of DHVSU shall follow the Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan, mainly focused on blended learning through online m ed i a.

Tertiary level classes, according to Baking, will probably open either in August or the first week of September depending on further instructions from health government offici al s.

The university paper, the Industrialist, reported that there will be “no face-toface classes to be conducted in the opening of the next school year and all methods of instruction will be through online medi a.”

Baking said that additional funding to provide such facilities is currently being drafted and extension campuses’

municipalities are planned to be coordinated to the provision of equipment needed for the new education system.

Meanwhile, university admission is already closed and the basis of the rest of examinees unable to take the admission test will be their grades from their previously attended institutions as mandated by the IATF.

Baking also said that the schedules of enrolment and virtual graduation has been decided and will soon be announced. The complete lists of qualifiers will also be released soon by the respective campuses.