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Globe, ABS-CBN reach out to Benguet LGUs

BAGUIO CITY (July 29) — Some 40 barangay leaders from five barangays in Tuba and Itogon towns in Benguet joined Globe and ABS-CBN’s leadership and business development training as part of Globe’s Bridging Communities Program (BridgeCom) BridgeCom sa BAYAN.

The two-day training for LGU representatives at the Pine View Hotel along Legarda Road here included barangays Ucab (Itogon), Taloy, Bumasgao, Kennon Road and Poblacion, all in Tuba.

Globe Community Relations Officer Jeffrey Tarayao said that the training is part of the tele-communication company’s gratitude package for communities where it operates. He announced that the Benguet training is the 11th of its kind in the country, having done similar trainings in Bataan, Negros Occidental, Occidental Mindoro, Davao Oriental, Compostela Valley, Laguna, Ilo-ilo, Batangas and Zambales.

Next week, the trainings will be in Tarlac and Pangasinan. Globe plans to reach out to the Ilocos and Cagayan Valley provinces as well.

Aside from barangay officials, BridgeCom also targets families of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and other individual entrepreneurs.

ABS-CBN’s Irma Cassico explained that BridgeCom offers micro-financing to individual entrepreneurs to support business initiatives of trainees. Capitalization for small business starts with a P2,000 individual loan, which earns a 3% interest monthly.

Tarayao admitted that when a company initiates community projects, its customer base expands. He did not discount the fact that there are hesitant communities and that his company is actively addressing community issues as they occur.

There are around 4,000 Globe cell sites all over the country, 24 of these are in Benguet and 32 more are in the Cordillera. People’s fears on cancer-causing emissions from these cell sites are yet to be proven, said Tarayao. Nevertheless, he said, Globe is exerting precautionary measures like building 35-40 feet-tall towers. # Lyn V. Ramo for NORDIS

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