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Showing posts with label Clarita Carlos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clarita Carlos. Show all posts
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Philippine Army to train Sulu ‘Bantay Dagat’ task force members
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Close to 400 government militias in the southern Philippine province of Sulu are set to undergo military training as part of a security task force that will help protect marine environment and enforce coastal laws.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
OPINION: Bong Go wins a top endorser by Jun Ledesma
THEY DO NOT know each other but they have heard of each other. They have not even met but each knew what they do in their respective endeavors. Bong Go, the most trusted man of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte when it comes to performing the tasks in the corporate social responsibility program of the Executive Office, confesses he looks to UP Prof. Clarita “Claire” Carlos with awe. In turn she admires what the former Special Assistant to the President had been doing not only as confidant of the Chief Executive but in implementing the social outreach projects of his boss.
Bong Go as we know, does not put his name on the countless package of assistance he extends to the needy. He does not even ask if one is in the opposite side of the political spectrum. He does not ask whether you are pro- Aquino or a Romualdez in dispensing aid to typhoon or fire victims or a patient needing medical assistance. (Get my drift?)
Professor Carlos heard of the President Duterte’s Malasakit Center program. Before he bowed out as SAP when he files his candidacy for Senator, Bong had already established several centers all over the country. His name is synonymous to Malasakit Center. This is similar to Davao City ‘s “Lingap Center” which caters to poor patients. Bong Go was in-charge of the program when he was still executive assistant to then Mayor Duterte, ergo he is no stranger to what the centers are for.
The UP Professor and the SAP had an accidental encounter. The driver of Carlos had a stroke and has to be rushed to a hospital. Being a retired soldier, he was brought to the Veterans Hospital which turned out lacked the facilities to attend to a stroke victim. Next option was the Philippine Heart Center where he was admitted and treated. Bills were mounting and the poor driver and Claire’s financial resource were getting thin. When it was time to leave and settle the bills, they were told that everything had been paid for.
Here is Prof. Carlos post on my FB wall: “Serafin Ledesma Jr, Thank you for that note re my rant vs this hospital for our retired military. Just to update: he is recovering well and quick, too, with a combined laser and acupuncture therapy! After just 1 1/2 months, he can now walk slowly and no longer slurs! Monumental changes really!
The best part is that, after crowd funding for his huge hospital bill, there was a fairly big amount still left to be paid at the PhilHeart Center. Thru a former student, I reached out to former SAP, who did not know me, and in no time at all, he paid all the bills outstanding!
Wow! In turn, I offered my consulting services to him, pro bono, on defense and foreign policy matters. He has not responded ... what a kind person!! Thank you!” End of message.
Like Bong I have not met the professor but we are friends on Facebook. I read all her posts since her brilliant discourse on varied subjects under the sun are priceless. I posted a story about one of Bong Go’s advocacy for the youths and she has this to say: “Serafin Ledesma Jr, what a laudable plan for our young!
I hope former SAP Go will also think of helping set up public libraries which will have facilities for all age groups including the old people like me, who will soon reach 10% of our total population. Our young people cannot just be malling all the time! These public libraries can double as community centers where the youth are trained on disaster mitigation and adaptation and training for all aspects of leadership, too!
Mabuhay ka, former SAP Go! I hope you will soon be a decision maker to make things happen! Saludo!’’
Some candidates can indeed be lucky if not blessed. But this is not just blessing, it is also significant considering that the support comes from a respected professor not only from the University of the Philippines but from the academe.
Bong Go has something going way ahead of election day. (Jun Ledesma)
Bong Go as we know, does not put his name on the countless package of assistance he extends to the needy. He does not even ask if one is in the opposite side of the political spectrum. He does not ask whether you are pro- Aquino or a Romualdez in dispensing aid to typhoon or fire victims or a patient needing medical assistance. (Get my drift?)
Professor Carlos heard of the President Duterte’s Malasakit Center program. Before he bowed out as SAP when he files his candidacy for Senator, Bong had already established several centers all over the country. His name is synonymous to Malasakit Center. This is similar to Davao City ‘s “Lingap Center” which caters to poor patients. Bong Go was in-charge of the program when he was still executive assistant to then Mayor Duterte, ergo he is no stranger to what the centers are for.
The UP Professor and the SAP had an accidental encounter. The driver of Carlos had a stroke and has to be rushed to a hospital. Being a retired soldier, he was brought to the Veterans Hospital which turned out lacked the facilities to attend to a stroke victim. Next option was the Philippine Heart Center where he was admitted and treated. Bills were mounting and the poor driver and Claire’s financial resource were getting thin. When it was time to leave and settle the bills, they were told that everything had been paid for.
Here is Prof. Carlos post on my FB wall: “Serafin Ledesma Jr, Thank you for that note re my rant vs this hospital for our retired military. Just to update: he is recovering well and quick, too, with a combined laser and acupuncture therapy! After just 1 1/2 months, he can now walk slowly and no longer slurs! Monumental changes really!
The best part is that, after crowd funding for his huge hospital bill, there was a fairly big amount still left to be paid at the PhilHeart Center. Thru a former student, I reached out to former SAP, who did not know me, and in no time at all, he paid all the bills outstanding!
Wow! In turn, I offered my consulting services to him, pro bono, on defense and foreign policy matters. He has not responded ... what a kind person!! Thank you!” End of message.
Like Bong I have not met the professor but we are friends on Facebook. I read all her posts since her brilliant discourse on varied subjects under the sun are priceless. I posted a story about one of Bong Go’s advocacy for the youths and she has this to say: “Serafin Ledesma Jr, what a laudable plan for our young!
I hope former SAP Go will also think of helping set up public libraries which will have facilities for all age groups including the old people like me, who will soon reach 10% of our total population. Our young people cannot just be malling all the time! These public libraries can double as community centers where the youth are trained on disaster mitigation and adaptation and training for all aspects of leadership, too!
Mabuhay ka, former SAP Go! I hope you will soon be a decision maker to make things happen! Saludo!’’
Some candidates can indeed be lucky if not blessed. But this is not just blessing, it is also significant considering that the support comes from a respected professor not only from the University of the Philippines but from the academe.
Bong Go has something going way ahead of election day. (Jun Ledesma)
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Thursday, November 22, 2018
OPINION: Bong Go’s decided advantage by Jun Ledesma
FORMER SPECIAL Assistant to the President, Sec. Bong Go, may not be aware that his official and now private outreach initiatives to nameless people have significant impact not only in terms of numbers of individuals and communities he helped but also in the deep sense of gratefulness that he might not have even heard at all.
Take it from UP Prof. Clarita Carlos. I am a great fan of this intellectual giant as her postings on Facebook are real gems that one can get gratis et amore. Sometimes last month however she went ballistic when her driver had a stroke and have to be rushed to the Veterans Hospital since he was a soldier retiree. Professor Claire was desperate and furious as the hospital, it turned out, seemingly lacks the necessary facilities needed by the patient. About three days after her last post, the professor appeared to have sobered down and in no time was back to her FB exchanges with her research team with her usual sagacity in varied subjects.
Meantime from my own little nook in Davao, I would post stories about SAP Bong Go’s engagements as a one-man delivery service of his intimate friends to bring assistance to victims of fire, floods and other calamities. I personally know Bong as a very reserve person who is always by the side of the Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and up to the time he became President. He is indispensable to the President before, during and even after his stint as SAP. Bong is his data bank, his answering service, his appointment secretary, e tcetera, et cetera. His body clock adapts with that of the President and wherever he goes Bong will be there too.
It used to be that President Duterte would personally attend to the needs of victims of calamities, armed conflicts and those who need medical assistance. The enormity of the task of the President however had diminished his presence. Thus the poor SAP Bong Go has become his chief implementer of what I’d describe as the President’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program.
Unknown to many, Bong Go is no stranger to what the tasks of CSR demands. In Davao City, then Mayor Duterte set up the “Lingap” project. The intention of the project is to help needy patients avail of the necessary medical attention in government or even private hospitals. Duterte also put up a special clinic for children who are afflicted by cancer. It was the office of Bong Go that was task to assist the beneficiary-patients.
When “Lingap” first started it was meant only for Davao City residents but not a few patients from other provinces who were brought to Davao hospitals and had ran out of funds were extended the necessary assistance. The cancer clinic by the way has become a fully equipped hospital. This now has patients from all over Mindanao and Visayas. Not only the child-patients are given accommodations their parents are provided their own living quarters as well.
Flash floods had occurred in unusual times in Davao City and one of the most devastating rendered one subdivision practically underwater when rampaging waters breached the Davao river bank. It was midnight. Bong Go, who is an ace water ski rider, rushed to the scene and single-handedly saved those who were hopelessly and helplessly perched on the rooftops of houses.
I am not therefore surprised if the ex-SAP really worked hard for the establishment of many Malasakit Centers all over the country shortly before he quit to run for Senator. But while he is now a private citizen he still has the President’s ear, so do not be astonished why Malasakit Centers keep cropping up in many nooks and corners of the country.
Bong Go still instinctively rush to scenes of calamities and handing over relief goods and other form of assistance his friends and supporters would gather for him to dispense for victims and the needy. But like his rank in the surveys of ‘senatoriables’ he has leveled up from 23, when he was perceived to be not in the running, to No. 8 in the recent survey done be radio network dzRH. Moreover, he too has outdone his boss in speaking engagements. And the crowd loves him despite the absence of expletives. This time he is not the photo-bomber he used to be described by media. Bong is now the central figure.
Why? Let me quote, verbatim, Prof. Clarita Carlos in her FB post: “Wow! What a generous soul! I know…because he had also extended help to my driver who had a stroke last month…hope his tribe increases! Thank you, Bong Go!” (Jun Ledesma)
Take it from UP Prof. Clarita Carlos. I am a great fan of this intellectual giant as her postings on Facebook are real gems that one can get gratis et amore. Sometimes last month however she went ballistic when her driver had a stroke and have to be rushed to the Veterans Hospital since he was a soldier retiree. Professor Claire was desperate and furious as the hospital, it turned out, seemingly lacks the necessary facilities needed by the patient. About three days after her last post, the professor appeared to have sobered down and in no time was back to her FB exchanges with her research team with her usual sagacity in varied subjects.
Meantime from my own little nook in Davao, I would post stories about SAP Bong Go’s engagements as a one-man delivery service of his intimate friends to bring assistance to victims of fire, floods and other calamities. I personally know Bong as a very reserve person who is always by the side of the Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and up to the time he became President. He is indispensable to the President before, during and even after his stint as SAP. Bong is his data bank, his answering service, his appointment secretary, e tcetera, et cetera. His body clock adapts with that of the President and wherever he goes Bong will be there too.
It used to be that President Duterte would personally attend to the needs of victims of calamities, armed conflicts and those who need medical assistance. The enormity of the task of the President however had diminished his presence. Thus the poor SAP Bong Go has become his chief implementer of what I’d describe as the President’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program.
Unknown to many, Bong Go is no stranger to what the tasks of CSR demands. In Davao City, then Mayor Duterte set up the “Lingap” project. The intention of the project is to help needy patients avail of the necessary medical attention in government or even private hospitals. Duterte also put up a special clinic for children who are afflicted by cancer. It was the office of Bong Go that was task to assist the beneficiary-patients.
When “Lingap” first started it was meant only for Davao City residents but not a few patients from other provinces who were brought to Davao hospitals and had ran out of funds were extended the necessary assistance. The cancer clinic by the way has become a fully equipped hospital. This now has patients from all over Mindanao and Visayas. Not only the child-patients are given accommodations their parents are provided their own living quarters as well.
Flash floods had occurred in unusual times in Davao City and one of the most devastating rendered one subdivision practically underwater when rampaging waters breached the Davao river bank. It was midnight. Bong Go, who is an ace water ski rider, rushed to the scene and single-handedly saved those who were hopelessly and helplessly perched on the rooftops of houses.
I am not therefore surprised if the ex-SAP really worked hard for the establishment of many Malasakit Centers all over the country shortly before he quit to run for Senator. But while he is now a private citizen he still has the President’s ear, so do not be astonished why Malasakit Centers keep cropping up in many nooks and corners of the country.
Bong Go still instinctively rush to scenes of calamities and handing over relief goods and other form of assistance his friends and supporters would gather for him to dispense for victims and the needy. But like his rank in the surveys of ‘senatoriables’ he has leveled up from 23, when he was perceived to be not in the running, to No. 8 in the recent survey done be radio network dzRH. Moreover, he too has outdone his boss in speaking engagements. And the crowd loves him despite the absence of expletives. This time he is not the photo-bomber he used to be described by media. Bong is now the central figure.
Why? Let me quote, verbatim, Prof. Clarita Carlos in her FB post: “Wow! What a generous soul! I know…because he had also extended help to my driver who had a stroke last month…hope his tribe increases! Thank you, Bong Go!” (Jun Ledesma)
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