As we end the year 2017, each of us reminisces and remember all of the opportunities that we have received for the year, and take the lesson from the bad memories. 2017 can be memorable for some and is surely a learning experience for most of us.

Mine’s significant event would be the chance to be of public service to the people of Iloilo city. Joining the City Planning and Development office has opened a new but unfamiliar environment. It was foreign for me to perform the functions and had difficulty understanding each of the attended seminars, workshops and meetings. It also became a challenge for me to cope up and that was started with self-studying and later on enrolling in an urban planning course. As I learn each planning step, I am hoping to reiterate the knowledge and contribute to the office in the formulation and development of the plans and programs for the city’s progress and the betterment of the Ilonggos.

Cheers to 2018. Happy to serve you.

It is already past two weeks since we conducted the community risk assessment of the barangays here in Iloilo City. The office formed two teams to do the data gathering and we were part of the total of ten teams that the City Government deployed to cover the 180 barangays of Iloilo City. Yep, that is alot of barangays for such a regularly-sized city. This is in preparation for the seminar that will be conducted in Boracay starting this week. Also, this will be the basis of the info that will build the Barangay Disaster Risk Reduction Management Plan of each individual Barangay.

So far we have done around 15 barangays as of this posting in which the recent was Brgy. Javellana, Jaro which I conducted just this afternoon. There are 7 sets of questions or forms that will build up the CBRA, and each Barangay will have at least 15 participants including senior citizens, children and PWDs along with the barangay officials. 

I was in-charge of documenting and taking pictures and here are a few shots so far: