Word: binamira
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...behind PACD is Ramon P. Binamira, 33, who while still at niversity of the Southern Philippines law school organized 30,000 Filipino students into a poll-watching corps whose vigilance contributed notably to the 1953 clean election of the Philippines' late beloved President Ramon Magsaysay. Once in office, Magsaysay wanted to give Binamira a Cabinet post, but he decided instead to live a while among the barrio people, who constitute the submerged 70% of the Filipino population...
...barrio Binamira chose was a fishing village whose people were starving because commercial trawlers had taken all the fish out of the bay. Binamira led a legal fight to force the trawlers to stay three miles offshore so that the village fishermen in their outriggers would have a chance. He also helped Magsaysay to set up a special office to train idealistic young Filipinos for village service...
...Thin Line. Today some 1,500 young Filipinos work for PACD. The requirements are stiff: out of 100 to apply, only eight pass the written exam, and of these only four, on the average, are selected. To avoid a handout psychology, Binamira gets villagers to contribute up to half the cost of each project, in goods or services. Result: the actual cash spent goes a long way. One village built its own copra-drying plant, used part of the profit to add two classrooms to the local school...
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