Silliman Universiy launches entrepreneurship program
by Rachelle M. Nessia
DUMAGUETE CITY, July 28 (PIA) --- Students majoring in Entrepreneurship at Silliman University (SU) get the chance to test the market with their own creations in a shopping mall environment for one month after SU tied up with Robinsons Mall for the “Entrep Corner” program.
Said program was launched on July 26 at Robinsons Place Dumaguete during which students under SU's Young Entrepreneurs group put up four kiosks inside the mall. “These are managed by groups of graduating Entrepreneurship students,” a press statement from SU said.
The Entrep Corner project aims to develop the entrepreneurial skills of the youth by providing them retail spaces to showcase their products and services rent-free. “This will give them actual retail experience from profitability assessment, productive development, visual merchandizing, packaging, pricing and inventory to marketing,” said Mark Garcia, director of SU's Office of Information and Publications.
The university through Vice President for Academic Affairs and concurrent Acting President Dr. Betsy Joy Tan earlier signed an agreement with Robinsons Land Corporation Corporate Public Relations Manager Roseann Coscolluela-Villegas for SU to implement said project, making it Robinsons' fifth institutional partner and its first outside Luzon. (RMN/PIA NegOr with reports from SU-OIP)
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2,000 Sibulan residents avail of medical mission
by Rachelle M. Nessia
DUMAGUETE CITY, July 27 (PIA) --- Some 2,000 residents of Poblacion, Sibulan availed of the free medical services offered by the government and private doctors composing the Metropolitan Inter-Local Health Zone (MILHZ).
Medicines worth P50,000 have been allocated for the mission to be given for free to the patients, said Sibulan Information Officer Connie Rosales.
The mission started at 8:00 in the morning and ended at 12 nn today.
The mission's doctors led by Dr. Felix Sy, chief of hospital at the Provincial Health Office and chief executive officer of MILHZ, are going around the six local government units covered by MILHZ to extend free medical services to residents.
MILHZ covers the areas of Sibulan, Bacong, Amlan, San Jose, Valencia and Dumaguete City.
Rosales said Sibulan Mayor Marcela Bartoces earlier earmarked P5 million for health services in the municipality. “This amount is the yearly budget of Sibulan for health programs,” she said.
Said allocation is used to finance the salary of health workers and midwives in the total 15 barangays of Sibulan, medicines, laboratory services and implementation of health programs. (RMN/PIA Negros Oriental)