AGMRMFI Comes To Maasin, Iloilo Spreading Its Wings To New Frontier

Mothers of Maasin working in dyads to learn charting of fertility symptoms.

Pat Miado, Maasin Project Team Leader briefing mothers on proper breastfeeding and Lactation Amenorrhea, nature’s way of spacing births.

Natural Family Planning practitioners with former AGMRMF staff Patricia Miado mentoring their younger counterparts on the MOM.

After 35 years of operating in Aklan the Archbishop Gabriel M. Reyes Memorial Foundation, Inc. (AGMRMFI) has spread its wings to bring the good name of the  first Filipino archbishop of Cebu and Manila, the late Gabriel Martelino Reyes of Kalibo to Iloilo province where he  served as a young priest in the 1920’s.

Mayor Mariano M. Malones of Maasin, Iloilo is pleased that his municipality is chosen by the AGMRMFI as pilot site in Iloilo province for its community based Responsible Parenting  and Natural Family Planning Project starting this year 2013.

Maasin has 50 barangays, mostly depressed, half of it is now being served through empowering couples to decide for their families and their future. 

Implementing its project, some 130 couples were trained on the Mucus Ovulation Method (MOM). As of this period, all grantees of the 4Ps project of the DSWD aimed at reducing poverty and improving maternal and child health.

Gender issues and the value of voluntarism are integrated in this community based project. The long term goal is to “teach people how to fish” and share their knowledge and skills with the rest  of the community.

The Project is being supported by the Philippine government through the Commission on Population, Region VI, Western Visayas and the Iloilo Provincial Population Office. (by Weng Tamayo) /MP