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Article: Samar island villages energized.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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CATBALOGAN CITY, Aug. 1 (PNA) - Several households, mostly agrarian reform beneficiaries, in Majaba and Basiao islands in this city were energized under the solar home system package of the Spanish government-funded Solar Power Technology Support (SPOTS) project of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
Among the beneficiaries were some 70 households within the Pangdan expanded Agrarian Reform Community (ARC).
Samar Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer (PARO) Gregorio Fiel Jr. said the beneficiaries are members of a cooperative in the area that manage the operation and maintenance of the project.
A recipient household pays P420 registration fee ...