Police in Antique have partnered with a multi-purpose cooperative for a feeding and gift-giving program to benefit families of the Ati indigenous people in the province.
Local government units in Eastern Visayas are being encouraged by the Department of Social Welfare and Development to update their list of struggling families so that they can use it as a basis on who they have assisted and have not assisted yet.
The Negros Occidental provincial government partnered with the Diocese of Bacolod for a tree-growing project that will be carried out by students from various schools in the province.
Bacolod City Health Office advises parents to vaccinate their children against the coronavirus as a precautionary measure before opening classes this August.
Six temporary classrooms are being constructed by parents and locals in the isolated village of Antique as part of the Brigada Eskwela school preparation initiative this school year.