November 5, 2006
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LC council clarification
DAR joins millennium dev’t campaign

SOME 60 Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)-Ilocos Norte employees, led by Milton P. Pascua, conducted on October 16, 2006, as per directive from Agrarian Reform Sec. Nasser Pangandaman, requesting all DARCO and regional directors, and provincial heads to lead their staff in reciting the “Pledge to Help End Poverty” and in the singing of the Philippine Millennium Development Goals (MDG) theme song “Tayo-tayo Rin,” immediately after the flag-raising ceremony.

As such, DAR joins the world and will “stand up” against poverty by helping attain the MDG such as to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty; to achieve universal primary education; to promote gender quality and empower women; to reduce child mortality; to improve maternal health; to combat HIV, AIDS, malaria and other diseases; and to ensure environmental sustainability and develop a global partnership for development.

Employees were advised to wear white shirts and white wristband, symbolizing the global fight against poverty and hunger.

The white band is also the international symbol to show support in ending global poverty and to demand world leaders to live up to their promises to end poverty.

The campaign was launched in 2002, two years after 189 government leaders from all over the world agreed at the September 2000 Millennium Summit to a set of eight time-bound targets, identified earlier, if and when achieved would stop extreme poverty across the earth.

The aim of the millennium campaign is to create awareness and create political will across the world for the realization and achievement of MDG to support citizens’ efforts to the government for their promise.

The United Nations, through the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has extended an invitation to the Philippine government to participate in this worldwide campaign.

This even has been documented on tri-media and is posted and enrolled in the official Millennium Campaign Philippine Website to be included in the setting of an official Guinness Book of World Record for the greatest number people over to stand up against poverty.

Gertrude G. Albano, Contributor

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