Marcos declares Jan 6 Natl Community Development Day

The Manila Times

Marcos declares Jan 6 Natl Community Development Day  Marcos rallies barangay officials in a nationwide clean-up of roads, canals, markets and schools as he declares Jan. 6, 2024 National Community Development Day in a video message on Friday, January 5.   Video Courtesy Of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s Facebook Page  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes  #tmtnews  #pbbm  #environment

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00:00 This is Bongbong Marcos of Barangay Lakub, Batac, Ilocos Norte.

00:05 To all Filipinos like me, who are part of a barangay,

00:10 I invite you all to join the movements, gatherings,

00:16 and celebrations of National Community Development Day,

00:21 which will be held on January 6.

00:24 That day is neither new nor novel.

00:27 Three presidents before me have issued a proclamation

00:30 encouraging our people to market in ways that best underscore

00:35 the timeless ideals that community development hopes to achieve.

00:39 The reason why we held the National Community Development Day

00:44 is because of the leaders of our barangays.

00:48 And I heed them to honor the kind of governance I not only preach, but practice.

00:53 That programs are developed from the ground up and supported by government at every level.

00:59 That government funds should not slowly drip to the communities which deserve them best,

01:04 and neither must economic progress trickle down to the people who need them most.

01:09 Quite the opposite.

01:11 The last and the least of society, those who have been left out and left behind,

01:16 should get the most first.

01:18 And that, my fellow Filipinos, is what defines and drives Build Better More.

01:24 The timing of Community Development Day is also good.

01:28 It was held on the first Sunday of the new year,

01:31 a time of vigorous celebration of the challenges that will come,

01:36 the challenges that we are sure to overcome.

01:39 My friends, let us see in our barangay the changes we want for our nation.

01:45 Let our barangays be the laboratory of workable ideas,

01:49 a showcase of what we can achieve together,

01:52 and proof that the basic government unit, the barangay, teams with best practices.

01:59 Let us start with cleanliness and order.

02:02 Filipinos do not deserve dirty, dingy, or dark communities.

02:07 That is why we move to make our surroundings clean and organized.

02:13 There should be no place for dirt, dirt and darkness in our communities.

02:19 Our rivers should not be polluted, and our seas should not be filled with dirt.

02:26 Our rivers are not sewers through which trash flows out to seas that have become cesspools of our waste.

02:32 Because of plastic, they have become dead pools of marine life.

02:36 Cellophane choking corals to death, microplastics ending up in the fish that we eat.

02:42 The government will do as much as it can, but it can only do so much.

02:47 We cannot deploy sweepers who will follow each citizen around and pick up every trash that is thrown.

02:54 We cannot spend tens of billions a year collecting garbage whose volume could have been reduced

02:59 through individual daily reuse and recycling.

03:03 At the end of the day, it is not only modern equipment that will win the war against waste.

03:09 It will be won by citizens equipped with a habit not to litter,

03:13 and whose allegiance to a clean and green community has become second nature to them.

03:19 When it comes to cleanliness, believe me, constructive action will always be better than any app.

03:26 Solid waste infrastructure to work must be founded on solid will,

03:31 not just by the government, but most importantly, by the people.

03:35 In this discussion, I order the relevant agencies to include cleanliness in the performance guarantees of local governments.

03:46 The distribution of greater prizes and incentives to LGUs that are based on cleanliness,

03:54 the national test for vegetables in the barangay,

03:58 the use of motor vehicles' users' charge for lighting roads and waterways,

04:05 the campaign to fight single-use plastic,

04:11 and the surrender to the so-called "pollution" of the use of tarpaulin.

04:15 But community development encompasses not just cleanliness of our surroundings,

04:19 but embraces a long to-do list that makes a village viable, livable,

04:25 the best place to raise a family, to retire happily, because body and soul are both cared for well.

04:32 It includes children's welfare, crime prevention, climate change adaptation,

04:38 capacitating institutions to resolve local disputes, community health and nutrition, commerce, and trade.

04:45 The people in the barangay are the frontliners of the government.

04:49 They are the forward detachments of government service.

04:52 They are the first responders to people in distress.

04:55 So if they have no place to rest,

04:58 community development should not be held just once a year.

05:05 Every day must be community development day.

05:08 And that is the principle of Build Better More,

05:13 so that we can build a new Philippines and its future to be prosperous, peaceful, and prosperous for all.

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