BALANGA CITY – Nacionalista Party-Team PNoy senatorial candidate Cynthia Villar on Friday met with leaders of the 38,000-strong Kabalikat, a women’s organization in 11 towns and one city in Bataan.
The former Las Piñas City congresswoman discussed with the women the importance of education, the creation of livelihood projects and her concern for the environment, among other issues.
“Education is very important. It is one way of uplifting the lives of the poor, so mothers let your children go to school,” she said.
Villar said that after her term as congresswoman, she built 154 livelihood projects. She said this was only 10 percent and her dream was to create livelihood programs in 1,600 towns and cities in the Philippines.
“Magtatagumpay ang pamilya basta may marangal na hanapbuhay,” she said.
The Villar Foundation has two projects in Bataan – converting kitchen wastes into organic fertilizers and producing coco nets from coconut husks. She promised that there will at least be one project in every town and city in the province.
She felt proud of the feat of the wetland in Las Piñas that was voted as one of the most important in the world together with the Tubbataha Reef and the underground river in Palawan and three other areas in the Philippines.
“Our clean-up drive of the wetland in Las Piñas is very successful and we want to maintain it. High school students regularly help in the clean-up every Friday,” Villar said, adding that she just came from the wetland in observance of Earth Day.
She is against the reclamation of Manila Bay. “Kahit wala pa tayo sa Senado, ipinaglalaban na natin na huwag ma-reclaim ang Manila Bay. We have filed with the Court of Appeals a petition for Writ of Kalikasan,” Villar said.
Bataan Gov. Enrique Garcia, wife Vicky, Bataan Tourism Council chair and sons Second District Congressman Albert Garcia and Balanga City Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III joined the women in welcoming Villar.
