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A retired seaman won this year’s grand raffle prize of house and lot at the 9th OFW and Family Summit held recently at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. The name of 62-year-old Elmer Fernandez of Mandaluyong City was drawn by former Senate President Manny Villar assisted by his wife, Senator Cynthia Villar, infront […]
The chairperson of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has backed the recent pronouncement of President Rodrigo Duterte on the possibility of a nationwide ban on the use of plastic. Senator Cynthia Villar said the possible plastic ban is urgent as she cited a 2015 report on plastic pollution by the international group Ocean […]
Senator Cynthia Villar announced the holding of the 9th OFW and Family Summit on November 12 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. In a press conference held at the Tramway Bayview Buffet in Pasay City, Villar said she expects thousands of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their beneficiaries to fill up Hall D […]
Senator Cynthia Villar has welcomed the approval on third reading of the joint resolution directing government agencies to purchase the rice needs of the 4.1 million beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) from local farmers. With a unanimous vote of 21, senators voted to adopt Joint Resolution No. 8, which authorizes the use […]
Senator Cynthia Villar, in scrutinizing the proposed budget of the Department of Agriculture (DA), made sure funding will go to projects, research and application that will help Filipino farmers and fisherfolks. During the second hearing of the finance subcommittee on the P71.8 billion proposed budget of DA for year 2020, Villar reminded DA officials headed […]
Senator Cynthia Villar and Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque led the soft opening of the Las Piñas Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Barangay Ilaya. The facility has a 2-storey building for female occupants with 86-patient capacity and a 3-storey building for male occupants with 158-patient capacity. The Villar family renovated two […]
Four overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including a survivor of the Marawi siege who experienced maltreatment while working abroad received livelihood assistance from Senator Cynthia Villar. In a meeting with Villar at the Senate, the OFWs each received a start-up kit for a sari-sari store (variety store)and financial assistance under the veteran legislator’s program for repatriated […]
Senator Cynthia Villar stressed how the Farm Tourism Development Act of 2016 or Republic Act 10816 helps better the lives of farmers by providing alternative income sources. Speaking during the Department of Tourism’s Farm Tourism Summit, Villar, chairperson of the Senate Agriculture and Food committee, related that farmers earn additional income from their produce; their […]
Senator Cynthia Villar has expressed disappointment over the measly budget the Department of Health (DOH) has been given to address the issue of open defecation. During the Senate subcommittee hearing on the proposed P160.15 billion budget of the DOH for 2020, Villar stressed that the P2 million allocation to build sanitary toilets under Environmental and […]
Another batch of trainers graduate from the Freshwater Aquaculture Training course and will be fielded to teach farmers and fisherfolks in the different parts of the country. Senator Cynthia Villar, director of the Villar Social Institute for Poverty Alleviation and Governance (Villar SIPAG), congratulated the 30 graduates who came from the National Capital Region, Cavite, […]