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Outstanding Governorship Award 2017Award 2017
Outstanding Governorship

Governor Cherry, through the appropriate agriculture-focused agencies of Meanwhile, the province will also be capitalizing on the benefits of
the Provincial Government, directed efforts at: distributing thousands of seeds Information Technology-supported learning through the EGG project
and plantars such as hybrid rice, corn, cacao, coffee, annatto, fruit trees, of DepEd and Microsoft Philippines. EGG units are self-sustaining and
vegetables, as well as tilapia fingerlings, livestock, poultry, small ruminants, transportable pop-up eClassrooms/eLibraries equipped with IT tools and
insecticides, pesticides, farm tractors and machineries, and African Night data connectivity and can readily be positioned or transported to serve
Crawlers (vermiculture); maintaining demonstration farms and training schools schools in rural areas. These units will boot up IT-education and at the
as well as the Farmers Scientist Training Program; rehabilitating pest-infested same time address the province’s need for functional classrooms in times
farmholdings; promoting organic agriculture; repairing and maintaining small of calamities. This project is already in the initial procurement stages and
agricultural engineering projects such as farm-to-market roads and small is intended to be operational in the third quarter of 2017.
water-impounding facilities; and monitoring the health and condition of farm The provision of health care remains high on Governor Cherry’s
lands. About P10 Million has already been lent out to various farmers in just health agenda which promises free and accessible hospital services to all
the first 100 days of Governor Cherry’s term. Novo Ecijanos. Towards this end, the provincial government is continuing
On education, the provincial government’s support for its current roster to upgrade the facilities and service capabilities of the province’s 10
of around 7,000 scholars continues. This scholarship program has enabled district hospitals. Set to be constructed within the year is the flood-ready
financially-challenged young Novo Ecijanos to pursue higher education thus ELJ Memorial Hospital (ELJMH) building in Cabanatuan City. The biggest
affording them with the key to break the lock of poverty and stagnation. district hospital in terms of capacity, the ELJMH unfortunately sits on high-
The province is also extending assistance to 68 scholars enrolled in varrious flood risk area and was extensively damaged by recent typhoons. Governor
masteral programs. The province’s very own higher education institution, Cherry hopes to transform ELJMH into a model secondary hospital
the ELJ Memorial College, presently has 1,019 scholars. Its recent batch of providing complete and socialized healthcare services to Novo Ecijanos.
graduates include 15 who eventually became Certified Public Accountants
and 115 which passed the licensure examination for secondary and primary
school teachers. About 140 out-of-school youth were also admitted as
freshmen. The provincial government continues to support Deped’s K-12
program. About 220 new classrooms were recently constructed in several
barangays in the four districts of the province.

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