Safeguarding Catandunganon women’s livelihood through ‘WE Empower project’: CatSU inks pact with CARE
AdministrationIn a move to increase
Catandunganon women’s economic capability, the Catanduanes State University
(CatSU) and the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE)
International signed an agreement that aims to benefit Catandunganon women to
gain sustainable livelihoods.
Dubbed as Women and Youth
Economic Empowerment (WE Empower) Project, the residents of four barangays in
Bato and four barangays in Virac will be the target beneficiaries of the
program.
“The project focuses on two
commodities: abaca and root crops and [to be] implemented in two municipalities
covering eight barangays,” expressed in the Memorandum of Agreement (MoA).
Held at the university’s
conference room, the joint partnership was signed by CatSU President Dr.
Patrick Alain T. Azanza and witnessed by CARE’s Asia Regional Director, Dr.
Musa Muhammad, together with his staff on Tuesday, September 19.
Present also during the MoA
signing were the newly installed Vice-President for Research, Extension, and
Production Affairs Dr. Rosana S. Abundo, Extension Services Director Dr. Adem
Nalu V. Rubio, and other university’s key officials.
CARE is an international
humanitarian organization that works with women and girls to combat worldwide
poverty and hunger. #ATUgay
