Footprints: Recovery from Yolanda

Eastern Visayas, the home of resilient people. Bangon!

Everybody remembers the wrath of super typhoon Yolanda which hit Leyte and Samar on November 8, 2013. In history, it was the most powerful and deadliest super typhoon ever recorded. It was indeed a remarkable disastrous event in the world that no one could ever imagine that it ended thousands of lives, left people homeless, mourning and hungry. Millions of properties were lost including their main source of livelihood.

NIA Regional Office 8—The newly restored Hiluctogan-Canlampay Communal Irrigation System (CIS), funded by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program-Irrigation Component (CARP-IC) was inaugurated and turned-over to the Hiluctogan Canlampay Utap Farmers Irrigators Association (HICAUFIA) on February 21, 2019. This project, amounting to P8,000,000.00, will irrigate 120 hectares of farmlands in Brgy. Canlampay, Carigara, Leyte, benefitting seventy-five (75) farmers.

Hingatungan IA: Working together towards success

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. –Henry Ford.