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Agusan del Sur municipalities hold MDGF 1919 postcard-making contest
by Mary Christine Anthonette M. Salise
Agusan Del Sur (2 November 2010) -- With the themes "Water is Life to Me" and "Water for the Poor and By the Poor," Municipalities of La Paz, Loreto and Sibagat conducted the MDGF 1919 Postcard making contest participated by elementary and secondary students of their respective towns. The contest was designed to promote children's awareness on the importance of water and to provide them a venue to express their artistry to demonstrate the present water conditions of their municipalities.

The contest themes encourage young minds to do their share of responsibility to improve the present water condition of their areas. The contest was conducted primarily in waterless recipient-municipalities of the MDGF 1919 project.

Elementary and Secondary students showed their artistry using crayons, water colors and oil pastels as they painted their masterpieces in A4 size bond papers. Participants as young as seven compete with all other elementary levels in the contest.

The contest criteria include: impact, relevance and interpretation with regards to the theme, artistic merit, composition and originality. The panel of judges based their rating on how the students illustrated the importance of water in the lives of waterless communities.

A Waterless community is defined as "a community with more than 50 percent of its residents have no access to safe, clean and potable water". La Paz and Sibagat, all of the province of Agusan del Sur, have been classified as waterless municipalities.

Trento and Prosperidad are scheduled to conduct their postcard making contests on November 3 and 4, respectively.

MDGF 1919: Enhancing Access to and Provision of Water Services with the Active Participation of the Poor is a joint programme of the United Nations, the Government of the Philippines and the Government of Spain designed to provide capacity building components to projects under the Presidents Priority Program on Water (P3W) to recipient-waterless municipalities. (DILG-13/PIA-Caraga)

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