Provincial News The 26th Infantry (Ever Onward) Battalion (26IB), Philippine Army led by its commanding officer Lt. Col. Romeo C. Jimenea, in collaboration with the PSWD officer Razel Montemor, assisted the enrollment of the FRs to the E-CLIP, which will cover their reintegration, livelihood, educational and housing benefits. “We are committed to help and assist to the needs of our brothers and sisters who finally returned to the folds of the law and chose to live in harmony together with their families,” Montemor said.
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congratulated the two FRs after receiving the said benefits. “Said cash assistance is just an initial prize for your surrender. There will be more benefits that will be given to you to help you all in starting anew through E-CLIP,” he said. The official also called on the remaining members of the NPA to stop causing conflicts in the communities, and surrender to the government. “Our door remains open in accepting you all back to the folds of the law. We are offering you a way out but if you continue to resist, then it will cause your own ruin,” Jimenea added. (CMO officer, 26IB/PIA-Agusan del Sur)
NGO conducts immersion activities in Dinagat Islands SAN JOSE, Dinagat Islands - The Ateneo Human Rights Center (AHRC) is in Dinagat Islands for the immersion of their interns and to do groundworking activities for the Access to Justice program of the Provincial Legal Office (PLO). The interns will live with host families in the different municipalities of Dinagat Islands to raise their awareness on the issues surrounding the people, in line with the Atenean value of being “persons for others.”
flagship program of the PLO funded by the Canadian Embassy which is the Access to Justice program.
The Access to Justice program seeks to ensure that Dinagatnons are empowered as citizens with knowledge AHRC personnel will also about their rights and legal processes. regularly check on their interns while conducting groundworking activities The program includes seminars at the grassroots level together with on the law, as well as legal aid missions the Provincial Government and other with volunteer lawyers. local government unit partners for the
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