On September 26, Davao City was given the Presidential award for the fifth time since 1998 as the Most Child-friendly City, but Maria Luisa Bermudo, chief of the City Social Service and Development Office says that the award was a product of the efforts of the city’s various departments, civil society organizations, people’s organizations, and barangay councils.(Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Digna Salmasan of the City Health Office says that the dengue cases in the city have gone down through the efforts of the community down to the barangay level. The decreased number of dengue cases is good news not just to the patients and their families, but to the personnel of the CHO as well. Mayor Sara Duterte had earlier threatened to sack CHO officials if the number of dengue cases, which had reached more than 4,000 since January, would not decrease. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)
Julius Oxales, office-in –charge of City Cooperative Office said they are currently assisting 158 micro-cooperatives in the city, many of them have assets under P3 million.
