PBSP, Angelo King boost productivity of So. Leyte farmers with new center

Press Release
October 10, 2013

CEBU CITY – More than 1,000 farmers and fisherfolk of Southern Leyte will now have improved access to productivity with a new building project for livelihood and community development.

Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), Angelo King Foundation, Inc. (AKFI) recently turned over a multi-purpose center for South Pacific Integrated Area Development Foundation, Inc. (SPIADFI) in Hinunangan, Southern Leyte.

The turnover event was led by Hinunangan Mayor Evelyn Tee with PBSP Regional Program Coordinator for Livelihood Cecilia Ang and SPIADFI Executive Director Beverly Capeña and the Foundation's Board of Trustees.

SPIADFI is one of the province's non-government organizations currently implementing programs on community-resource management, sustainable agriculture, women health and safe motherhood, and enterprise development in more than 45 barangays from six municipalities.

Shortage of training venues due to lack of funding, however, led SPIADFI to use small offices for training venues. With the new center, SPIADFI will have its own venue for its conferences and trainings.

The multi-purpose center, worth P500,000 contains a conference and comfort room and display and storage areas and will be used for conducting trainings and providing technical assistance to the SPIADFI's assisted organizations.

The center will also be expanded into a two-storey building so the foundation can cater live-in seminars to their community beneficiaries.