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Task Force Tawi-Tawi hold 3-day youth summit Posted: 01 Apr 2021 02:55 AM PDT THE Joint Task Force Tawi-Tawi, in partnership with the Tawi-Tawi Provincial Government, spearheaded a three-day youth leadership summit to educate them for their role in nation building. The summit, which reeled off Thursday, April 1, and will run until Saturday, April 3, is being held at the headquarters of the 2nd Marine Brigade in Sanga-Sanga, Bongao, the capital of Tawi-Tawi, and is being attended by 150 youth aged 14 to 20 from the different island municipalities of the province. "We initiated this activity to train and educate young leaders for their role in nation building. We want to provide them with a good perspective of the current gaps we are in and their roles in filling those gaps," said Brigadier General Arturo Rojas, 2nd Marine Brigade commander. "I would like to personally thank the provincial local government units, Norwegian Embassy, International Organization for Migration, and Office of MP Al-Syed Sali for supporting us in this endeavor," Rojas added. The three-day summit dubbed as -Engage, Recreate, and Influence is filled with lectures and team-building activities. "This is a very good venue to mold the morals and harness the potentials of our future leaders," said Lieutenant General Corleto Vinluan Jr., commander of the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom). "The youths are among the most vulnerable sector of the society so we must empower them to keep them away from the deceit of the enemies of the state," Vinluan added. Strict implementation of the minimum health standards is observed during the conduct of the activity, according to Rojas. (SunStar Zamboanga) This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

DOST grants financial aid to researcher Posted: 01 Apr 2021 02:55 AM PDT THE Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has released a P715,503 financial grant to a local researcher to develop studies on the active food packaging films from Calamansi peels and Cacao pods. DOST Regional Director Martin Wee said the recipient of the financial grant is Julienne Stephanie Agapin, a graduate of Master of Science in Chemistry in 2016 from the University of the Philippines-Visayas (UPV) and a product of the same institution with a degree of Chemistry. Wee sad the grant will be utilized to obtain the necessary provisions, supplies and materials, and chemical reagents for extraction of essential oils and production of active packaging films. Wee said the study is expected to optimize cacao-calamansi mixtures for the production of active packaging films and to develop active food packaging films from cacao and calamansi loaded with encapsulated lemon grass oil and calamansi oil within the course of one year. Wee said essential oils, which are known to exhibit both antioxidant and antimicrobial properties, are added to packaging films in order to convert the films into active packaging. He said active packaging was defined as packaging materials made by incorporating the active components for food preservation such as antioxidants and antimicrobial agents to the packaging material, rather than a direct application of these components into food. He said the grant was awarded by the DOST-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development through the Zamboanga Consortium for Health Research and Development-Regional Research Fund. (SunStar Zamboanga) This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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