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MATUGUINAO, Samar — Around 300 children benefitted from a feeding and gift-giving program of the Eastern Visayas Media Without Borders held at Brgy. Bag-otan here on Saturday.
Eastern Visayas Media Without Borders President Miriam Desacada-Maderazo led media practitioners from Leyte, Eastern Samar, and Samar in the first feeding and gift giving for this year.
Desacada-Maderazo, a native of Matuguinao, said the activity was her way of giving cheers to the children.
"This is my way of giving back in my own little way what I can give to my birth place and to give joy to the children," said Desacada-Maderazo.
She said the children and residents enjoyed the delicious forage made of local rice. The children also got toys, rice, sardines, noodles, cookies and candies.
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New Barangay Chairman Antony Diaz delivered a welcome message and expressed his thanks to the media organization for choosing his ba-rangay as the beneficiary of the program.
Diaz said the media group was the first ever civic association to visit and give feeding and gift in their barangay.
The town of Matuguinao in Samar is one of the interior municipalities that needs attention from the national government.
Once a hotbed of NPA insurgency, the town which was used to be reached by four to five hours travel by boat from Gandara, is now accessible by road in less than an hour.
