BY DANNY B. DANGCALAN

TALISAY City — Ted Victor Lizares Jimenez, who is running for congressman in the 3rd District, vowed to support Bayan-Anihan, a project that aims to counter poverty and hunger in farming communities by making its people self-reliant.

“We should work with the people of farm communities and inculcate in them that there are so many resources in their areas that they could use to fight poverty,” Jimenez said recently at a Bayan-Anihan orientation in Hacienda Sta. Teresita, Dos Hermanas here.

Professor Jethro Dagunan of Bayan-Anihan said their mission is to eradicate hunger in the country by establishing sustainable food sufficiency programs through multi-sectoral partnerships.

One of their projects is called “Goodbye-Gutom” which gathers farming groups and communities to train their members on self- sustaining and self-reliant endeavors to combat hunger and poverty, Dagunan said.

Farmers are taught how to organize themselves and maximize idle lands for organic farming. This will ensure food for every family as long that there is the willingness to develop culture and discipline of productivity, he added.

Jimenez, for his part, stressed that he will support Bayan-Anihan as he believes that its projects need unity of the people, support of the government and the private sector./PN