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Outstanding Governorship Award 2017

EDUCATION

Education must be within the reach of every family, especially
the poor. As we continue to raise our competence in producing more
successful scholars, we concentrated on this scheme by providing the right
financial plan for a scholarship program from which over 2,000 students in
government-owned and private colleges are current beneficiaries.
On the other hand, our yearly Special Program for the Employment of
Students (SPES) summer job package remains to provide a noble benefit
for each poor but deserving student in quest of a better future.

HEALTH

With the purpose of having much improved medical services and
facilities under the principle, “Bringing the Government Closer to the
People,” we established a Capitol branch (Kapitolyo Sa Segundo Distrito)
in an area adjacent to other municipalities of the 2nd District to ease the
burden and efficiently serve the needs of communities living in far-off
localities. Supportive to this endeavor is the Sorsogon Provincial Mobile
and Floating Clinic which consistently carries out our medical and dental
missions in different municipalities all over the province.
December, 2016: Sorsogon was given the Magayagaya Award
Hall of Fame at the 7th Salud Bikolnon Awards as Top Performing
Provincial Government in Bicol Region in the Implementation of Health
Programs, Projects and Activities. The Province was also awarded for
its top performance throughout the region in efficiently and effectively
implementing the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition.

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