BSP Dumaguete initiates Clean Note Policy ad campaign‘Taking care of money is taking care of the environment, too’
By Rachelle M. Nessia
DUMAGUETE CITY, July 9 (PIA) -- The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Dumaguete Branch initiated the production of two infomercials supporting the BSP’s Clean Note Policy.
The two 60-seconder videos, in English and Cebuano versions, were introduced to the public for the first time during a launching ceremony on July 6 at Robinson’s Place, this city.
The videos were produced by BSP Dumaguete Branch in cooperation with the Silliman University Student Government’s Infomedia Committee.
The committee members volunteered their talents during the production of the infomercials.
The infomercial videos aim to change old ways and convince Filipinos to make it a habit to properly care for their money, said Divina Labitad-Salve of the Economic and Financial Learning Center at the BSP branch here.
Presidential Decree No. 247 prohibits the defacement, mutilation, tearing, burning, or destruction of Philippine bank notes and coins.
This also includes the stapling of notes, a common practice among Filipino consumers, noted Salve.
“Don’t staple your money or fold your bank notes or put them inside coin purses where they will be crumpled. This shortens the lifespan of the notes, making it unfit for circulation,” she said.
Under BSP’s Clean Note Policy, notes and coins that have been badly soiled, mutilated, or marked with writings are considered unfit for circulation. “We destroy these unfit notes and coins and replace them with new ones,” said Salve.
Every month, the central bank retires or takes out of circulation more than one million pieces of bank notes in Negros Oriental alone.
If consumers handle their money properly, they will not only help the government save on production costs involved in printing new money but also help protect the environment.
Salve explained that Philippine money is made of 80% cotton and 20% Philippine abaca.
By taking good care of their money, Salve said consumers will help conserve the country’s natural resources. (RMN-PIA7 Negros Oriental)
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Online registration of PWDs in NegOr ongoing
By Rachelle M. Nessia
DUMAGUETE CITY, July 9 (PIA) -- The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) here is encouraging persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Negros Oriental to be counted and join the ongoing online registration for the differently-abled.
This invitation includes PWD voters’ registration for the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
“We are working on gathering data to capture the number of PWDs in each local government unit in the province,” Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Alice Lagarde told the Philippine Information Agency.
She said they target to finish the registration within this year.
Meanwhile, Lagarde said the province will mark the National Disability and Prevention Week (NDPR) celebration with week-long activities from July 17 to 23.
The celebration will be highlighted by a provincial convention during which nearly 250 differently-abled persons from across the province are expected to participate. (RMN-PIA 7, Negros Oriental)
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Negrense PWD bags 4 trophies in Central Visayas Paralympics 2012
By Rachelle M. Nessia
DUMAGUETE CITY, July 9 (PIA) -- A person with disability (PWD) from Sibulan, Negros Oriental bagged four trophies during the Central Visayas PWD Paralympics Games 2012 hosted by Cebu City held last July 7 to 8.
Ryan Joseph D. Fontelo, 28, from Poblacion, Sibulan town, clinched the championship awards in two games: table tennis singles and badminton doubles. He also landed second place in table tennis doubles and badminton singles.
Aside from Fontelo, Giller Balubar from Tayasan town also bagged 3rd place in two swimming events: freestyle and backstroke.
Fontelo and Balubar were part of the delegation from Negros Oriental who competed in the paralympics games this year at the Cebu City Sports Center upon the invitation of Cebu’s Committee on PWD chaired by Arleigh Jay Sitoy.
The Paralympics featured games like swimming, track and field, table tennis, badminton and wheelchair basketball.
The participation of the PWD delegation from Negros Oriental in the regional PWD games was financed by the provincial government through the PWDs Welfare Development Program administered by the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO).
The provincial government allots P600,000. annually for the PWDs Welfare Development Program, said Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Alice Lagarde.
Lagarde stated that this is the first time the province sent a delegation to the regional PWD games.
Fontelo, in an interview, thanked the provincial government for the privilege of bringing honor to the province. “Without their financial assistance, we would not have been able to compete in the games.”
Fontelo lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident in 2005 and prior to the accident, he was a freshman student of Mass Communications in Foundation University. He was already active in sports, having started playing lawn tennis at the age of 8.
After the accident, Fontelo refused to let his disability deter him from sports. He began to coach a basketball team and trained physically-abled players for volleyball and basketball.
He now sits as the president of the PWDs group in Sibulan. He is also the former vice president of the Ten Outstanding Persons with Disability Alumni Community (TOPDAC) here.
He challenged PWDs in Negros Oriental to come out and join in the activities for differently-abled. “There are many talented PWDs here not just in the field of sports and they should not hide their talents and skills,” said Fontelo. (RMN-PIA7 Negros Oriental)