CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / May 14, 2014) – Philippine indigenous people have benefited from a health care program launched by the United Nations Population Fund and the Indigenous Peoples Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health and Nutrition Project-Mindanao.
The tribesmen in the village of Sinuda in Bukidnon’s Kitaotao town were provided basic health services and among the highlights of Tuesday’s health fair was the turn-over of medical equipment to the local health center by United Nations Population Fund Country Representative Klaus Beck and European Union Programme Officer Emily Mercado.
More than 200 hygiene kits were also distributed to the women in the village, according to the organizers.
The project is funded by the European Union and implemented by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and manage by the United Nations Population Fund.
Among those who attended the event were United Nations Population Fund Assistant Country Representative Florence Tayzon and the officers and members of the Federation of Matigsalog and Manobo Tribal Council; and Kitaotao Mayor Lorenzo Gawilan, Jr. and Regional Director Roberto Almonte of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples, and the Chief of the Bukidnon Provincial Health Office Dr. Ricardo Reyes.
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