KALAHI cites Tarangnan LGU for its best practice featured in the book “Ringgat”

By NINFA B. QUIRANTE (PIA Samar)
April 24, 2008

CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar  –  Tarangnan LGU is honored that in the whole Samar province, it was the only municipality cited as having done one of the best practices in the project implementation of Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (KALAHI).

Representing Mayor Emmelly Olaje was Ms. Claudette Cabinalan, Tarangnan Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer (MSWDO) who came to Leyte Park with KALAHI community facilitator Belle Villarin and one Barangay Kagawad Francisca who also is a member of the Barangay Management Sub Committee.

The best practice done in Barangay Sugod, Sitio Lana in Tarangnan earned its merit as it is featured in “Ringgat” the book launched at the Leyte Park Hotel, Tacloban City.

With a peculiar tradition following the doctrines of Rizal, barangay folks of Sogod, Tarangnan – the 16 KALAHI steps came in just a breeze as the community always adhere to the accepted norms of conduct.

A chapter in the book “Ringgat” devotes to “Sogod to So Good” where this quaint community opted for a rice mill as their project.

The rice mill situated on top of a hill, beckons the rice farmers from the adjacent barangays to be able to partake too of the Kalahi sub-project entrusted to this unique group of men and women who manage to be different yet earn the respect of the other townsfolk.

That very day, April 18, 2008, DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral came from Manila to witness the book launching, sign most copies and mingle with the men and women who have made the dreams of most barangays become a reality.