Thursday, October 14, 2010

Philippine officials praise IDB delegations, humanitarian projects in Lanao Sur




Photo 1 - Photo shows Islamic Development Bank delegations from Saudi Arabia headed by Engineers Essam Noor Fadel Al-Shanqiti, Chief of the Special Assistance Division and Hossam Baghat, Country Project Officer, with Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay and IDB focal persons Edward Blah Lim and Dr Potri Disomimba-Ali, chairperson of Datu Palawan Disomimba Development Foundation Inc. in Lanao del Sur, shortly after the visitors’ arrival in Manila on September 28, 2010.

Photo 4 - Photo shows Dr Potri Disomimba-Ali, chairperson of Datu Palawan Disomimba Development Foundation Inc. presents an architectural miniature of the 10-year Comprehensive Health Integrated Community Development Plan for Lanao Center of Health and Wellness to IDB Engineers Essam Noor Fadel Al-Shanqiti, Chief of the Special Assistance Division and Hossam Baghat, Country Project Officer.

Photo 7 - Islamic Development Bank delegations headed by Engineers Essam Noor Fadel Al-Shanqiti, Chief of the Special Assistance Division and Hossam Baghat, Country Project Officer, pose with Tamparan Medical Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors with Dr Potri Disomimba-Ali and Edward Lim, the IDB Philippine contact person.

Photo 8 - Photo shows Islamic Development Bank delegations from Saudi Arabia headed by Engineers Essam Noor Fadel Al-Shanqiti, Chief of the Special Assistance Division and Hossam Baghat, Country Project Officer, with Dr Potri Disomimba-Ali and Edward Lim, the IDB Philippine contact person, at a visit in the municipality of Tamparan in Lanao del Sur. Picture also shows the newly completed 2-storey hospital building funded by the IDB which is the first phase of the 10-year Comprehensive Health and Integrated Community Development Plan of the Tamparan Medical Foundation, Inc. (Lanao Center for Health and Wellness).


LANAO DEL SUR, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Oct. 14, 2010) – Philippine government officials praised the Islamic Development Bank delegations from Saudi Arabia who recently visited Muslim communities in Mindanao to inspect various humanitarian projects.

The IDB officials arrived in the country late in September for a mission to participate in programs for alleviating poverty, develop human capital and facilitate sustainable socio-economic benefits in order to improve quality of life for the Muslim communities in non-member countries such as the Philippines, said Dr Potri Disomimba-Ali, the chairperson of Datu Palawan Disomimba Development Foundation Inc.

The guests were welcomed and received in Manila by Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay, who is also the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council chairman.

Bai Omerah Dianalan Lucman and lawyer Hamid Barra, both representing the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos, met the delegations and made courtesy visit to Mamintal Adiong Jr., the governor of Lanao del Sur, one of five provinces under the Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao.

The delegations came to visit and follow-up existing IDB projects and identify new projects to Muslim communities’ partners and for initial clearance of projects as well as responding to the invitations of National Commission on Muslim Filipinos initiated by Bai Omerah Dianalan Lucman last Ramadhan, the Muslim holy month of fasting.

The IDB officials held an ocular inspection of ongoing and other prospective projects, including Tamparan Medical Foundation Rehabilitation Center; other hospitals and integrated schools in different parts of Mindanao such as provinces of Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte , Cotabato and Davao City.

Engineer Essam Noor Fadel Al-Shanqiti, head of the IDB Special Assistance Division, and Engineer Hossam Baghat, IDB Country Project Officer, pronounced their commitment of support to market the 10-year Comprehensive Health Integrated Community Development Plan for Lanao Center of Health and Wellness which was presented by Dr Potri Disomimba-Ali.

“We are really happy and inspired by the visit of the IDB delegations and our people are so thankful to the continuous support and commitment of the IDB in helping us in this benevolent endeavor, in improving the life status of the needy thru long term Education and Health aspect projects. Alhamdolillah, we really appreciated the assistance of the IDB and its global partners in helping the Muslim Ummah in the Philippines,” Dr Potri Disomimba-Ali told the Mindanao Examiner. (Mindanao Examiner)

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