WHO are THE KEY Decision Makers here? WHY not prioritized say over Pdaf/dap orders, or bulk condom/pills distribution? The national problems are complex and complicated, hence the public leaders MUST be profoundly learned, wise, has mental stamina to tackle these web of entanglements, must have in their brainbank the knowledge data of the laws, histories, all poverties, marketing strategies for multi-networking and fundraising, clean up policies to align and protect homebases. The said politician MUST be compassionate in their intelligence with the inherent honesty, life sacrificing heart for pure service. *** The money is ours, but we go hungry Now they seek support from the House of Representatives and Senate to pass a bill that would create the Coconut Farmers Trust Fund, which would flesh out a plan for the use of the P71-billion (earning interest every day) in coco levy funds being held by the National Treasury and the United Coconut Planters Bank. They also want to dialogue with President Benigno Aquino III to get him to issue an executive order that would have the same effect. “This is a major issue and this is a national issue,” Yu told InterAksyon. As the students were being molded into the nation’s future leaders, it is important for them to listen to the marginalized. “There are things that they need to know, there are voices that they need to hear to become leaders that we want them to be.” Former Ateneo de Manila University President Fr. Bienvenido Nebres echoed the farmers’ sentiments when the school hosted the farmers overnight Thursday. “We cannot understand why the coconut levy, which has always been yours, has not reached you until now,” he told the KM71 farmers during a welcoming program. “I was still a dean at the Ateneo college in the 1970s and already this issue was being fought for then. It is taking so long.” “If we are talking about inclusive growth, if we want to end poverty, this administration should look into and attend to the plight of our coconut farmers,” said former Quezon 4th District Representative Lorenzo “Erin” Tañada III, who had joined part of the Quezon leg of the march. “You can really see how poor they are. Coconut farmers are the poorest of them all, and what they are fighting for now is to be able to say that what is theirs is theirs.” interaksyon/article/99653/ano-pang-dapat-gawin-to-access-p71-billion-coco-levy-fund-farmers-march-and-lobby
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