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Ambassador Visits Bohol to Promote Ecotourism and Midwife Clinic Opening

During her September 6th visit to Bohol, Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney assisted with the handing over of U.S. government funded projects to local organizations in the areas of environment and health. She also visited some key tourist attractions including the Corella Tarsier Habitat Conservation Project and the Chocolate Hills. Pictured is Ambassador Kenney at the Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Fund. Ambassador along with Bill and Aida Graner, former Peace Corps volunteers, hand over the "key" to the local Bilar staff symbolically signifying the transfer of U.S. government assistance to them to continue running the program of preserving biodiversity among the forests on Bohol.
Ambassador Kenney, with the assistance of Aida Graner, plants a rare dipterocarp tree in the forest preserve. Ambassador Kenney visited the Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Fund facilities learning about their activities in waste management and recycling efforts. She enjoyed a tour of the facilities and then planted a tree to mark the visit.
Ambassador Kenney launches the "Going Green" ecotourism along with David O. Valdes (far left), President of World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The "Going Green" program is a specially designed toolkit for the local tourism operators, developed by WWF-Philippines and USAID. Governor Erico B. Aumentado (second from right) and Congressman Edgar Chatto, Bohol 1st District and Chairman of the House Tourism Committee (far right) receive the toolkit. Governor Aumentado highlighted his commitment to preserving the spectacular biodiversity on Bohol for future generations. Ambassador Kenney also participated with Governor Aumentado in a signing a Memorandum of Understanding between public and private sector health partners, local government institutions and a USAID-funded tuberculosis project to establish the first province-wide Childhood Tuberculosis Control Program in the Philippines
Ambassador Kenney cuts the ribbon along with Congressman Edgar Chatto (Bohol 1st District and Chairman of the House Tourism Committee) inaugurating the third mid-wife clinic on Bohol. The clinic was established through a partnership between USAID and the Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines-Bohol. The clinic works to improve the quality of and expand access to maternal and child health services in the private sector. Ambassador Kenney took a tour of the new facility and then joined a buntis (pregnancy) party for approximately two dozen local women. Ambassador Kenney read questions from the clinic's trivia cards designed to provide accurate maternal and child health information to expectant mothers.

Last Update :: 09/13/2007

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