You plan to move to the Philippines? Wollen Sie auf den Philippinen leben?

There are REALLY TONS of websites telling us how, why, maybe why not and when you'll be able to move to the Philippines. I only love to tell and explain some things "between the lines". Enjoy reading, be informed, have fun and be entertained too!

Ja, es gibt tonnenweise Webseiten, die Ihnen sagen wie, warum, vielleicht warum nicht und wann Sie am besten auf die Philippinen auswandern könnten. Ich möchte Ihnen in Zukunft "zwischen den Zeilen" einige zusätzlichen Dinge berichten und erzählen. Viel Spass beim Lesen und Gute Unterhaltung!


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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Masterpiece - Dragon Boat Team Qatar in Davao City soon



ABOUT US

MASTERPIECE DRAGON BOAT TEAM QATAR (“MDBT OR MP”) is a non-profit organization that has been initiated primarily to encourage and inspire the Overseas Filipino Community to enhance human potential by promoting the importance of good health by means of exercise, support, friendship and fun through the sport of dragon boat. The team was formed in June 2016 with 11 pioneer paddlers and has since grown steadily in terms of its members and supporters. At the present the team comprises 70 members. MP strives to build a core squad who will train and paddle together. The team aspires to compete successfully in the local and international front; hence, its members continue to dedicate themselves to a rigorous training regime that focuses not only on the technical and endurance aspects of the sport but also on the collective team work. For the love of the sport, MP fosters its players to develop its competitive edge, whilst maintaining the spirit of camaraderie among the entire dragon boat community. Fueled by their relentless passion to train, fully ignited by their unyielding desire to win, this never-say-die team shall continue to dominate over the world class talent of Filipinos.

MP is an official member of Qatar Dragon Boat Federation which is the specific governing body for the sport of dragon boat racing in Qatar.         

Masterpiece is COMPETITIVE TEAM. This means that we take training seriously. We demand from each member of the team their time to attend training sessions whether boat, pool and land. Attendance is key. We ask the members for their commitment and sacrifice to be strongest team in the league. We train hard, we push ourselves to the limit that is why we are champions.

MP aims to provide support assisting unfortunate and distressed OFWs and the general Filipino Community both here in Qatar and in our home country, The Republic of the Philippines. The team was recently awarded a Certificate of Recognition last 25 January 2017 making them a Bonafede member of the United Filipino Organizations in Qatar (UFOQ).

The team is also a member of H.E.R.O Qatar (HELPING, EMPOWERING, RECOGNIZING OFWs Qatar). Another social group that envisions to build a strong group and solid foundation for OFW’s in Qatar which is inline with UFOQ’s Mission and Vision.


CALENDAR YEAR 2016 – 2018


A.   RAK AUTUMN REGATTA 2016
Date: November 2016
Race Venue: Ras Al Khaima, United Arab Emirates
Brief Description:
       It was the first international exposure for most of its players who valiantly fought a good fight against UAE’s toughest and well-experienced clubs.

B.   QATAR DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL 2017
Date: 10 March 2017
Race Venue: Grand Hyatt Hotels and Residences Doha, Qatar
Awards:
1.    Premiere League – Standard Boat 200 Meters OPEN Category – Champion
2.    Premiere League – Standard Boat 200 Meters MIXED Category – 1st Runner Up

C.   7TH KOREA OPEN BUSAN INTERNATIONAL DRAGONBOAT FESTIVAL
Date: 03September 2017
Race Venue: Busan, Korea

D.   SARACEN WINTER DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL 2017
Date: 24 November 2017
Race Venue: Grand Hyatt Hotels and Residences Doha, Qatar
Awards:
1.    Premiere League – Standard Boat 200 Meters WOMENS Category – Champion
2.    Premiere League – Standard Boat 200 Meters OPEN Category – 1st Runner Up
3.    Premiere League – Standard Boat 200 Meters MIXED Category – 1st Runner Up

E.    VICTORY PARTY / YEAR END PARTY
Date: 18 December 2017
Place: Doha Qatar

F.    MASTERPIECE NEWLY REQUIRED DRAGON BOAT “KAMANDAG”
Date: 01 January 2018
Place: Katara Beach, Doha, Qatar








G.   QATAR NATIONAL SPORTS DAY – MOCK RACE
Date: 13 February 2018
Mock Race Venue: Katara Beach, Doha Qatar
Brief Description: QDBA held a mock race in Katara Beach

H.   ONSLAUGHT 2ND MOCK DRAGON BOAT RACE
Date: 31 August 2018
Race Venue: Katara Beach, Doha, Qatar
Brief Description: Onslaught Dragon Boat Team Qatar organized the mock race.
Awards:
1.    Small Boat 200 Meters WOMENS Category – 1st Runner Up
2.    Standard Boat 200 Meters OPEN Category – 2ndRunner Up
3.    Standard Boat 200 Meters MIXED Category – 1st Runner Up


Our team will be joining Davao International Dragon Boat Festival to be held from 30th November till 2nd of December 2018.  We will be competing in the first Davao International Dragon Boat Festival.




Thank you very much and looking forward to meeting you soon with the team.


Comval Gov delivers Local State of the Children's Report


Compostela Valley Province---  ”What we do now will surely make or break our children. There is no other choice but to ensure that the environment they live in is an environment that fosters hope, nurtures their talent and encourages growth,” this was part of the message of Governor Jayvee Tyron L. Uy during the celebration of the 26th National Children’s Month (NCM) 2018 at the Provincial Capitol Lobby, Cabidianan, Nabunturan Comval on November 5, 2018.

This year’s NCM theme is “Isulong: Tamang Pag-aaruga, Para sa Lahat ng Bata.”

Highlights of the Celebration are the Local State of the Children’s Report of Governor Uy and the kick-off ceremony.



Governor Uy reported the child welfare and development agenda that highlights the five core areas: civil rights and freedoms, family environment for care and alternative care, basic health and welfare, basic education, leisure and cultural activities and special protections.

“Under civil rights, we conducted the Provincial Children’s Congress. Annually, we gather our child development workers to tackle the most pressing issues and problems concerning our children. This is also chance for our child development workers to express their concerns and grievances, a chance we hear the sentiments of our frontlines in the field-our child development workers,” said Gov. Uy.



Meanwhile, during the program Provincial Director Noel C. Duarte of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) gives the rationale of the NCM 2018.

He explains that this celebration is for the victims of violence, every country’s culture, social level, abuse, neglect, exploitation, and also for the streets, home, school and institution.

“The celebration is by virtue of Republic Act 10661, an act declaring November every year as NCM. The NCM celebrates successes of children, to campaign to end violence against children and promote their physical, emotional, moral, spiritual and intellectual well-being,” said Duarte.

Attending the program were the provincial officials, employees of the provincial government, students and personnel from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

“As part of the community that believes in the capacity of the young to make positive change, it is our sworn duty and solemn obligation that they access opportunities that they deserve. As governor that belongs to the generation of the young, I vow that I will dedicate every single day in making sure that our children live in an environment that protects their rights and puts their welfare at the center of our priorities,” ended Governor Uy. (Rey Antibo, ID Comval)

Philippines and China set to sign P175 billion railway loan deal


Pia Lee-Brago (The Philippine Star) 
MANILA, Philippines — President Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to sign this month the P175-billion Philippine National Railways (PNR) South Railways project, a 639-kilometer standard gauge railway line between Manila and Bicol.
The project, a component of the PNR Luzon System program, is among the big-ticket infrastructure projects to be funded under an Official Development Assistance (ODA) agreement, a Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) official who asked not to be identified said yesterday.
The official said Xi’s visit will take place after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit from Nov. 12 to 18 in Papua New Guinea.
Albay Rep. Joey Salceda, the project’s original proponent, said the modern railway project would be a major backbone of economic development in Southern Tagalog and Bicol with spillover benefits to other regions of the country.
“The PNR South Railways project, which we have tediously designed as a key that will unlock the economic potentials of the vast Southern Tagalog and Bicol areas, is now finally coming to realization,"  Salceda said.
Once completed, the project will enhance the connectivity between major airports and seaports in Southern Tagalog and the Bicol regions and as well as serve untapped areas along the route, he said.
The PNR South Railway segment is expected to cut Manila-Legazpi travel down to less than five hours. It runs from Manila to Matnog in Sorsogon with nine major stations – Manila, Los Baños, Batangas City, Lucena, Gumaca, Naga City, Legazpi City, Sorsogon City and Matnog.
Its construction is set to start in the second quarter of 2019 and will be partially operational by the second quarter of 2022.
The DFA said the project forms part of the massive “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure program of the Duterte administration. 

Five years after Philippines' strongest typhoon, scores still in harm's way



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(Agence France-Presse) 
TACLOBAN, Philippines — Diofel Llamado fled for his life when Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) devastated the Philippines in 2013, yet today he is back living in the same coastal area – even if it puts him in the crosshairs of a future killer storm.
On the fifth anniversary of the country’s deadliest typhoon on record, his return is emblematic of the struggle in developing nations to move people out of homes in the most disaster-menaced zones.
It is an especially urgent danger as monster storms strike ever more frequently, packing destructive rainfall that experts say is supercharged by climate change.
“You cannot think that you are safe,” Llamado, 55, told AFP. “Even when you are sleeping, you have to think like a soldier: one foot is in the graveyard.”
Yolanda struck in the predawn darkness of Nov. 8, 2013 as the then strongest typhoon to ever hit land, leaving more than 7,360 people dead or missing across the central Philippines.
The wall of seawater the typhoon sent crashing into densely populated areas – known as storm surge – is one of the key reasons it was so deadly.
Many people simply did not understand the term and did not evacuate despite official warnings.
Even some who fled were not spared – Llamado’s two daughters were killed when the rushing water collapsed an evacuation center.
Yet he has returned to live in the same storm surge-threatened area where his family lived before Yolanda.
Llamado says his small business making savory pastries would not survive a move, adding that the government-proposed housing in a safer area doesn’t even have running water and electricity.
“If someone will offer us a means of livelihood, we can live there. But until that happens, how will we survive?” he asked. “No one is going to give you food.”

Lesson not learned

His decision echoes the calculus poor people make in other calamity-prone nations in Asia and Africa, said Moustafa Osman, a Britain-based disaster management expert.
“Everywhere the single most difficult thing to do is to move people from their own village or territory and put them in a strange place,” he said.
“Unless you have a proper plan and a better alternative they won’t go,” he added.
Substandard housing, difficulties in earning a livelihood, no transportation and even conflict with the existing residents of a resettlement area are habitual barriers.
In the Philippines, roughly 15,000 of the poorest families were ordered relocated from the worst-hit city of Tacloban, yet many have not moved and those who have are struggling.
Maria Rosario Felizco, Oxfam country director for the Philippines, said the need to locate communities in areas less vulnerable to disasters has not been fully met.
“That’s the lesson we must learn. We must not wait for... a disaster before we think of that,” she said.
The peril that looms over communities in the Philippines and elsewhere is only expected to grow because of the influence of global warming on extreme weather.
Oxford University climate expert Friederike Otto said there is a clear connection between climate change and heavier, devastating rainfall.
The storms packing these intense rains are expected to get more harmful as the impact of climate change manifests itself, and because so many vulnerable communities live in threatened areas.
“How destructive a storm is crucially depends on who and what is in harm’s way,” Otto said.