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Hapinoy, Xavier University light up Cagayan de Oro village with solar energy 02/26/2012

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Hapinoy, Xavier University light up Cagayan de Oro village with solar energy

02/26/2012
The Hapinoy program has launched another community-oriented project in partnership with Xavier University of Cagayan de Oro City that benefited more than 500 families in the Xavier Ecoville village in the city who were among the victims of tropical storm “Sendong.” The project involved the distribution of eco-friendly solar lamps that lighted up the streets in the community.

Ecoville is a resettlement project for victims of Sendong which killed over a thousand people and destroyed billions of pesos worth of crops and property.

The lamps were provided by the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development-Business Development Services (CARD-BDS) and are powered by charging the lamp batteries with solar energy during the day..... MORE
SourceThe Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20120226nat6.html

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Xavier University's actions are really respectable toward Sendong Victims. They take part to so many different projects and have even given lots, it's in hard times like this that you see son real good people/organizations.

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