Friday, February 10, 2006

UCPB EXTENDS CREDIT TO AKLAN ARBS

The ceremonial turn-over of checks from the United Coconut Planters Bank ( UCPB-CIIF Finance and Development Corporation ) to two agrarian reform cooperatives namely Tag-osip-El Progreso MPC and the Aparicio ARBs MPC was successfully conducted at the session hall of Buruanga, Aklan recently. The program is an offshoot of a microfinance project supported by the UCPB-CIIF Finance and Development Corporation in partnership with the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – Philippines-Australia Technical Support for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (FAO-PATSARRD) and the Local Government Unit of Buruanga, Aklan.

The Tag-osip-El progreso ARBs MPC received the amount of P 250,000.00 through its Chairperson Amado Encinares while Eligene Tayco, Chairperson of the Aparicio ARBs MPC accepted the check worth P250,000.00 for their cooperative. Ms. Ma. Theresa Tumbali, Head of the EDD of UCPB-CIIF with National Experts from FAO-PATSARRD namely Ms. Monet Parado and Mr. Aristeo Portugal were also present during the ceremony. Hon. Benito P. Sualog , the Sangguniang Bayan chair of the committee on Cooperatives also witnessed the event. Mr. Felipe Panganiban, Jr. Buruanga’s Municipal Agrarian Reform Officer and staff from the DAR Provicincial Office facilitated the affair. /MP

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