Programs and Activities of Barbaza

Programs and Activities

How to Improve Your Business and Livelihood

The Philippine Livelihood Program: The Philippine government provides several programs to enhance the livelihood of the Filipino people. The department of Science and Technology through its Technology Research Center (TRC) regurlarly conducts various types of hands-on and personalized training programs.

• DOST 
• UPLiFT stands for Urban Program for Livelihood Finance and Training. -
• DSWD Pro-poor and Livelihood Programs 

• Guaranteed within ten (10) years, The Philippines will be luxuriant with vegetation again

  • Click to read year of 2015 message of DENR Secretary Ramon J.P. Paje : The DENR made progress in 2015. However, they are still skirting the issue of re-foresting the Philippines the "mother nature" way. Maintaining nurseries is a great supplement but is the immediate solution to the problem. The letter of Sect. Paje did not touch the issue of polluted rivers in the Philippines.
  • Note: July 6, 2012:

  I was in a meeting with the congressman (3rd district of Zamboanga del Norte) Cesar G. Jalosjos at his residence in Liloy. We were talking about the Tour de Zamboanga. There were DENR people there and the conversation led to the planting of trees. The DENR said that they sowed seeds via helicopter about five years back (2007) but the results were very poor. I was curious and I asked, how poor? He replied that after one year only about 10% survived. So they gave up on the project after doing it only once. The DENR said that lack of shelter killed most of the young sprouting trees.

  I quipped by saying, the experiment was not a failure. It was a success! You had 10% wherein for years you had 0%. So I thought to myself: Now if they had continued the following year, the 10% growth would have provided more shelter for the following years sowing. Within the span of just 10 short years, had the DENR contiuned on that project of sowing seeds, the entire Philippines would be reforested.

  
  

  Some Examples of Trees

  • Gemelina (Gmelina) - The tree is very sturdy. You can cut it down (from the trunk) and it will come back with a vengeance. Excellent for planting on hills to prevent erosion. The fruit of the gemilina tree is round and about 1 inch in diameter. Not great for a tree plantation because you have to pull out the stump in order to plant new trees. The gemelina stump will continue to grow but you won't be able to get a good trunk out of it. Fantastic for the prevention of erosion. Small seeds.
  • Mahogany - The seeds are harvested from the pods. The seeds are also pod shaped and have extended wing like fan. Shape like bolo with a big handle. The extended fan is just natures way of helping move the seeds around.
  • Rubber tree - I was taking siesta and I heard a pop and then another one. I was alone in the payak then I heard and saw another rubber tree seed pop. I laughed.
  • Hanakdung - The seeds are so tiny. Like mustard seeds. The trunk of the tree can be 24 inches thick and the tree can be over 40 feet tall in less than 6 years. The wood is soft. And like the malangbuaya the tree will die within 12 years.
  • Malangbuaya tree - the seeds look like berries. Small, the size of a pea. The tree grows to about 30 feet and dies at about 12 years. Great lumber. The bats love to eat the fruits.
  • Ilang Ilang - seeds are flat (16th of an inch thick) and about an 8th of an inch in diameter. Very fast growing. The trunk of an ilang tree can be 10 inches in diameter within 8 years.
  • Jatropha - Seeds are the size of almonds. The locals call it tangan-tangan.

  
  

  Some Activities are;

  The Barbaza Multi-Purpose Cooperative had a REST and RECREATION activities, It allows the participants to heightened staff understanding on current trends and issues build up skills and potentials, provides venue for interaction with other people and most importantly to develop a deeper sense of personal awareness. It   broaden our experiences and give us new scenery in which to gain new perspective. It gives us a break from work which is very important to our well-being. Among the many benefits of rest and recreation time is something vital that we often don’t attend to: the need to break up patterns of stress in our lives.

  It is a 2-day activity on Aug 30-31 .The 1st day started with personality test followed by team building activity facilitated by Armie Ann Sapalo and in the evening is our victory party for Gawad Pitak Award and ended with a band.The second day was spent for a Thanks Giving Mass by Rev. Fr. Joseph Bańa and a spiritual retreat facilitated by Mr. Antonio Donguines.

  The objective of rest and recreation for employees and staff is to engage them in delightful activities that can bring happiness and enjoyment. Recreational activities can give us a platform to socialize. Recreation is important for building and maintaining of relationships, and thus for enriching your social life and relationship with co - employees.