DA, Munti GAD Office’s women education efforts win International search

The Department of Agriculture and Muntinlupa City’s Gender and Development office’s efforts to educate and empower women was chosen as one of the winners in the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative’s (YSEALI) #LetGirlsLearn search for outstanding endeavours to educate women.

The DA and Muntinlupa City’s GAD Office’s chocolate-making, fish deboning, peanut butter, coco jam and rice cake-making workshop’s won the heart of US First Lady Michelle Obama and was chosen as one of the top four women-education stories in the said search.

YSEALI announced on its Facebook account its search for stories and photos that show efforts to help educate women in support of the First Lady’s trip to Cambodia to promote #LetGirlsLearn, a U.S. government initiative to ensure adolescent girls get the education they deserve, last March 18.

Annray Rivera, Public Relations Officer III of the Office of the Secretary, Department of Agriculture said in her entry, “It is in support of the Honorable First Lady Michelle Obama's trip to Cambodia to promote #LetGirlsLearn that I write to share our humble contributions for the education of the women in our community by teaching them to be an entrepreneurs by helping them add value to agricultural products they can sell as a source of additional income,”

According to Rivera her group were going around Muntinlupa City, Philippines where there is a large numbers of homemakers that need help in their daily subsistence.

First Lady Obama handpicked Rivera’s entry as one of the four best and even flaunted it on her Tweeter account @FLOTUS on March 22.

The American First Lady used the four winning entries in her trip to ASEAN countries promoting #LetGirlsLearn. Launched in 2013, YSEALI is U.S. President Barack Obama’s signature program to strengthen leadership development and networking in ASEAN.

The YSEALI community consists of bright young leaders 18–35 years old from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, Philippines, Laos, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Munti Tourism launches Movie by The Lake

Escape in the busy streets of Metro, connecting in countryside and a Friday movie date in one.

Muntinlupa Cultural and Tourism Development Office invites everyone to come visit Movie by The Lake and rest with nature every Friday, 6pm at Jamboree Lake, NBP Reservation, Muntinlupa City.

Launched last April 23, hundreds of locals enjoyed in the open movie theatre with its opening film “The Night at The Museum 2” at the smallest lake in the country, free of charge.

The City Government of Muntinlupa installed a big screen near lakeshore across a landscape terraces where moviegoers have the comfort of enjoying the free film viewing.

This ingenious presentation of motion pictures thrust to promote Jamboree Lake as one of Muntinlupa’s historical sites and invite tourists to see the beauty of the “Gateway to the Calabarzon.”

Jamboree Lake is located in the premises of National Bilibid Prisons where numerous sites of the city are located such as the Bureau of Corrections Administration Building, Director’s Quarters, Japanese Cemetery and many others.

Mayor Jaime Fresnedi commits to revive and preserve Muntinlupa’s cultural heritage for the constituency.

The Movie by The Lake will be showing Red Riding Hood, from the director of the hit series Twilight Saga this May 15.

Come and join the fun! Bring your mats, snacks and drinks, and movies will always be the treat. Visit Muntinlupa CTDO’s Facebook page, fb.com/tourism.muntinlupa for more details.