Peasant organizations and agrarian reform advocacy groups in Negros Occidental are taking part in the campaign to gather three million signatures of farmers to prod legislators to pass a law extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program after it expires in 2008.

The groups involved are the Comprehensive ARB Initiative for Negros Empowerment, Agrarian Reform Advocates-Negros, Sugar Workers Alliance In Negros, Negros Unity Forum on Agrarian Reform, Asosasyon sang Mangunguma sa Industriya sang Kalamay as Negros , Provincial Alliance of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries and Advocates of Negros and AKBAYAN-Negros.

16 th batch of graduates
complete NFSP training

The 220 members of the 16 th batch of the out-of-school trainees of the National Federation of Sugarcane Planters Sugar Workers Foundation yesterday completed their three-month technical and livelihood skills training at the NFSP Training Center in Brgy. Alijis, Bacolod City , NFSP said in a press release.

The graduates were trained for free highly-employable skills in welding, automotive technology, basic electricity, computer operations, and food processing.

Their daily stipend and lodging expenses were shouldered on a fifty-fifty basis by the NFSP Foundation and the sponsoring NFSP member planter association/cooperative.

 

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