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When super typhoon Yolanda struck parts of Visayas in November 2013, the Rise Mo Women’s Group in Ormoc, Leyte was affected.

The roof of the building housing their Rice-Mongo-Sesame Ready-to-Cook food blend factory was partially damaged, allowing rainwater to enter the facility and destroy their raw materials, particularly the uncooked rice (bigas) and mung beans (mongo).

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The Department of Science and Technology’s Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) is pulling out all stops to increase the number of science scholars in the country, pushing for its “one scholar per municipality” target” in order to achieve this.

Through its program dubbed “Push4Science: Maging DOST Scholar Ka!,” DOST hopes to pluck more scholarship applicants from 71 identified municipalities, including those in far-flung areas, and maintain a wave of high quality human resources who will continue to carry the country’s science and technology activities.

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Maricris B. Huit and husband Calixto used to have three manually operated incubators for their balut processing business in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay which they call Marc’s Balut Processing Facility.

Balut is a local street food – fertilized duck egg with a developing duck embryo inside – eaten right from the eggshell.

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Through the Department of Science and Technology-Region IX’s Community Empowerment Thru Science & Technology (CEST) Project, the Buug Subanen Tribe in Zamboanga Peninsula have a good source of livelihood.

CEST established the Pangase Rice Wine and Coco Water Vinegar Processing Facility for the Buug Subanen Workers Association via funding worth P 679,152. Technology training and equipment were also provided.