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Outstanding Congressman Award 2013

THE BUTIL FARMERS PARTY, KKK and the BUTIL
its participation in Committee Affairs Farmers Party

Honorable Agapito H. Guanlao is currently the Chairman Outside the halls of Congress, the BUTIL Farmers Party,
of the Special Committee on Food Security as well as the Vice- through the Office of Honorable Agapito H. Guanlao implements
Chairman ng Committee on Good Government and Public scoio-economic projects for its beneficiaries – the small farmers
Accountability. He is an active and hardworking member of other and fisherfolk, their families and their communities.
committees: Agriculture and Food, Agrarian Reform, Cooperatives
Development, Labor and Employment, Human Rights, Government Included here are infrastructures that focus on the
Enterprises and Privatization, Banks and Financial Intermediaries construction of farm to market roads, multi-purpose centers,
and Special Committee on Bases Conversion. and the like.

There are also projects that fall under the Karunungan,
Kalusugan at Kabuhayan. Under the Karunungan projects are
scholarships for college students and distribution of school
supplies before the start of every school year.
Medical and dental missions, as well as distribution
of medicines are part of the BUTIL Farmers Party’s
Kalusuan project.
Kabuhayan projects are livelihood projects that include
the establishment of community-based gardens or GULAyANs,
distribution of seedlings and farm equipment, livelihood carts
or NEGO-CARTs, and dispersal of farm animals among others.

with the continuous onslaught of typhoons and flooding,
BUTIL Farmers Party has formulated its KALIKASAN project
that include the distribution of relief goods immediately, and
rehabilitation initiatives.

THUS the .BUTIL Farmers Party’s community-based
projects now fall under the umbrella of the KKKK para
sa Kaunlaran

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