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| Photo taken in one of the initial visits of Signpost Intl. representatives. Courtesy of Signpost Philippines. |
Signpost Philippines Inc. will
soon implement another project for the people in Brgy. San Juan in the district
of Molo, Iloilo City. Dubbed as Rain for Growth in San Juan, Philippines, it
will be funded by the Big Lottery International Communities Fund of UK and will
be launched in the latter part of July 2014. This partnership was facilitated by
Signpost International which is also based in UK.
Rain for Growth aims to benefit
the areas of Panot, Punong and Esing which are all located in Zone 2 of Brgy. San
Juan as well as the children of the three elementary schools what can be found
within the San catchment area. It is
expected to directly benefit five thousand four hundred eighty three (5,483) people
including a big percentage of children aged 6-12.
The three-year project would like
to address the concerns of the community such as the lack of access to safe yet
affordable water and sanitation. The four components of the project include the
rainwater harvesting and purification system, a communal toiletblock, the
organization of a community-led water and sanitation committee that would
supervise and monitor a community-led cooperative enterprise and a hygiene
education programme that would promote awareness on water safety and sanitation
as well as improve health practices in the target community and in the schools
in it.
Aside from the Rain for Growth,
Signpost Philippines, Inc., an NGO which aims to alleviate poverty by
empowering people to transform their communities, has other projects such as
child sponsorship, environment protection, livelihood, health, sanitation and
safety, infrastructure, emergency response and community organizing. MMPJ
