Camarines Sur Representative Luis Raymund "LRay" Villafuerte has filed a bill that seeks to further extend the validity and effectivity of the "Bayanihan to Recover as One" Act, or Bayanihan 2 until December 31 this year. Camaarines Sur 2nd District Rep. LRay Villafuerte Villafuerte said this would...
After receiving numerous requests for the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) COVID-19 Care Kits, Vice President Leni Robredo clarified that the kits will only be sent to patients of Bayanihan E-Konsulta upon a doctor’s recommendation. VP Leni Robredo (Mark Balmores/Manila Bulletin) Robredo...
Vice President Leni Robredo is calling on nurses, allied health workers, and medical interns and clerks apart from doctors to volunteer for her initiative, the Bayanihan E-Konsulta free medical teleconsult service for COVID-19 and non-COVID outpatients. Robredo opened the registration for medical...
Vice President Leni Robredo had to spend the last two weeks in quarantine after being exposed to a COVID-19 positive close-in security, but she used her time well. If she was not attending to her office’s various projects, Robredo can be found reading books about women leaders such as former...
Vice President Leni Robredo repeated her call on Monday, April 26, for volunteer doctors, particularly psychiatrists and psychologists, to address the thousands of requests her Bayanihan E-Konsulta initiative has been receiving. A few days after she called for volunteers earlier this month, the...
The Bayanihan spirit that started in Maginhawa St. Quezon City, initiated by Ann Patricia Non, created a ripple effect in less than a week. Thus, it came without a surprise why community pantries or bodega ng bayan sprouted like mushrooms nationwide. But while many organizers set up tables on their...
A resident of Maginhawa expresses her happiness after getting vegetables from the community pantry. (Noel Pabalate) A day after 26-year-old Ann Patricia Non installed the community pantry at 96 Maginhawa St., Diliman, Quezon City, donations such as rice, vegetables, eggs, canned goods, biscuits,...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye I was a young boy studying at the Itaas Elementary School in Muntinlupa, when I first heard the concept of “ bayanihan ”. My social studies teacher used the classic image of neighbors coming together to carry somebody's nipa hut to another patch of farmland to...
Amid an apparent take up of the government micro financing facility, Trade and Industry Secretary Ramon M. Lopez has reiterated his call to all micro small and medium (MSMEs) that wish to restart or to strengthen their business operations to avail of the Bayanihan CARES lending fund....
The Department of Finance (DOF) worked closely with lawmakers last year in providing technical support leading to swift congressional action on legislative measures that aim to rescue businesses, provide emergency assistance to vulnerable sectors and keep the economy afloat amid the crisis arising...
Small Business Corporation or SBCorp., the government’s micro financing arm, has released more than P2 billion or 20 percent yet of the P10 billion allocation under the Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2 for the micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as of the first week of...
The Department of Finance (DOF) assured that the government will practice prudence in granting regulatory relief to projects deemed critical to the Philippines’ economic recovery. In a statement, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the DOF-led committee tasked to identify qualified...
