Army’s 702nd Brigade embarks in a livelihood program

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FORT BONIFACIO, Metro Manila – The Philippine Army and the Tarlac Heritage Foundation Inc. (THF) collaborate to conduct the Hardin ng Lunas: Wood, Food, and Income activity graced by the Commanding General, Philippine Army Lt. Gen. Macairog S. Alberto with THF co-founder Dra. Isabel C. Suntay on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, at Camp Tito Abat Manaoag, Pangasinan.

The 702nd Infantry “Defender” Brigade received valuable insights about the effective practices in generating food and income from the environment without exploiting the available resources. The Hardin ng Lunas: Wood, Food, and Income aims to allow the Army and their dependents to secure their food and economic needs. At the same time, the activity serves as an exercise to preserve and maintain the environment’s ecological balance.

In the previous years, various Army camps were introduced to the Hardin ng Lunas as a project under THF which promotes planting of organic vegetables, fruit trees, and medical herbs. The project which was as an action to develop idle camp lands provided skills development to soldiers. THF specialists also taught about fish propagation. Today, the program continue to provide assistance to the community support programs of the Philippine Army in addition to the creation of livelihood projects and sustaining the environment.

CGPA stressed in his remarks that the wide-spread effect of climate change and environmental damages has an intensive harm to the country’s food and agricultural security. “Through sustainable environmental projects such as ‘Wood, Food, and Income’, we promote the responsibility of each individual to respect, protect, and preserve our environment while providing income for our communities and supporting local production,” he added.

The Philippine Army actively coordinates and work with other developmental foundations and its stakeholders to provide its soldiers, and their families, economic security for them to become more motivated and efficient servants of the Filipino people in their exercise of being a world-class Army.#

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