Among the perquisites of holding the position of SDAO of Rosario, Batangas is the chance to interact with people who get things done and who decide on what matters most.
Former Lipa City Mayor and now on her second term as Batangas Governor Vilma Santos Recto is a staunch believer in the MBN-CBIS Approach.
Former National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Director General, former Batangas Congressman and currently Philippine Senator Ralph Recto, husband of Governor Vilma Santos, is the proud author of Republic Act No. 8425 also known as the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act.
This law adopts an area-based, sectoral and focused intervention to poverty alleviation wherein every poor Filipino family shall be empowered to meet its minimum basic needs of:
- health, food and nutrition
- water and environmental sanitation
- income security, shelter and decent housing
- peace and order, education and functional literacy
- participation in governance, and
- family care and psycho-social integrity.
With Hon. Dodo Mandanas
Former Batangas Governor and now Congressman Dodo Mandanas showed open support for many social development programs during his three terms as governor.
Professor Emeritus at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines, Executive Director of Punlad Research House, Inc. and multi-awarded author Dr. F Landa Jocano talks about the use of Filipino values for municipal government employees of Rosario, Batangas in providing public service with a smile in this 1996 photo taken at the author's residence.
