The Ambulant Vendors Association of
Kalibo recently requested the help of Kool Earth when their President Mr.
Johnny Samenio, together with Vice President Ms. Rose Rentillo invited the
organization to attend one of their
meetings. Their aim was for Kool Earth to assist them in informing their group about
the importance of working together, and about how to keep Kalibo a clean and green
environment in which to sell their products.
A
brief talk was delivered by the President of Kool Earth, LTSG Chita de la
Cruz-Heap, PCGA, on how we should not always depend upon our town officials for
their help. She explained that we are all capable of doing our part to make
Kalibo a better place in which to live and work, no matter how small our input
might be. In her talk she emphasized the need to apply the 4 ‘R’s which
represent the ‘Repair’ of repairable
items, the ‘Re-use’ of these in
order to ‘Recycle’ and thus ‘Reduce’ the impact of clogging garbage.
Dr.
Cynthia de la Cruz, founder of Kool Earth, screened a short documentary about
the garbage situation in Kalibo. She discussed ways and means of how to go
about managing the garbage in our area and also made suggestions on how to make
money from waste materials and how to segregate garbage for composting and
other purposes
The
President of SKBK (Samahan ng Kababaihan Bayan ng Kalibo), Mrs. Editha Rubio,
was also present and introduced to the
ambulant vendors their own project of
helping Kool Earth and the municipality of Kalibo to minimize the use of
plastic bags in the market. This they hoped to achieve by introducing their
current product, the old fashioned but reliable ‘tampipi’ for shopping.
This
meeting was held last week at the Independence Church behind Royal Supermarket
where the members of the Ambulant Vendors from various place of Kalibo
convened.
Out
of 93 current ambulant vendors, some eighty seven were able to attend according
to the attendance sheet that secretary Ms. Nancy Firmo compiled.
