BACO Organizes Urban Container Gardening for Green Communities

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The  BIDA (Barangay Integration for Development  and Action)Program of the Barangay Affairs  Coordinating Office   headed by the City Vice-Mayor Glenda Rabat Gayta organized  a two-day  Urban Container Gardening Workshop for their integrators.

Held last October 17-18 at the BGR Garden Place the seminar is designed to  demonstrate  UCG as a system, technology for ecological waste  and home-based livelihood mechanism as entry point for organizing green communities.

Glenda Rabat-Gayta said that “The Integrators who will be completing the course Integrators Processing Workshop are projecting  as “Laging Handa” for barangay development”.

Meanwhile, internationally recognized Agriculturist Perfecto Jojo Rom is the resource speaker of the workshop. “UCG  produces savings , especially, the food intake as an income and  it directs  the gardener to join social enterprise”, he said.

BACO is under the City Mayor’s program administration in the 26 Barangays. This particular program  shall substantially produce selected  “Integrators”  to act  as the trainers, organizers,  bridge of development interaction within their respective barangays with a support system emanating from the key offices of the City Health Office, City Environment Office, City Agri Office, City Social Welfare and Development, City Housing and Resettlement Office, City Planning Office.