Category: 環境保護と世界平和

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2019 Home for the 100th Sheep Daycare Christmas

AWH members attended the Christmas play presentation of “Home for the 100th Sheep” daycare pupils in Dasmarinas, Cavite held on December 12, 2019.

Home for the 100th sheep was founded by Kaloi and Edna as a relocation camp for formerly homeless Manila families and operates and manages several free tuition pre-schools in Dasmarinas, Cavite, Philippines.

Academy of World Healing Foundation (AWH) made a monetary donation to the said daycare through Kaloi and Edna.  In addition AWH also gave 2 sacks of coconut and a box of toothpaste and body soaps from other donors namely Christine and Carmela residing in Brgy. Sicat, Alfonso, Cavite.

Kaloi, Edna and teachers extended their gratefulness to AWH for the annual assistance to the daycare.

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Solid Waste Management Meeting

On July 31, 2019 Brgy. Sicat Captain Arnel called a meeting to discuss about the collection of residual waste from the 13 commercial establishments in the area.

The barangay (village) will revive the residual waste collection again and the residual garbage will be picked up every Tuesday & Friday (at 7:30 AM) of each week starting on August 6, 2019.

At the end of each month the barangay will bill each commercial establishments based on volume of residual wastes collected.

The minimum garbage collection fee is P1,000 and it will be more depending on the volume of garbage collected.

The barangay is also planning to collect from households in the future.

The municipal dump truck is scheduled to pick up from the MRF shed, which was established by Academy of World Healing Foundation (AWH) and Rotary Club of Multinational Manila which composes of many AWH staff, once a month.

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Waste Management for Environment

A MRF (Material Recovery Facility) has been constructed in Barangay Sicat with financial support from RIMM (Rotary International Multinational Manila) in April 2018.

The barangay MRF Fund has been established and it collects monthly dues (P1,000 – P2,000) from commercial establishment in barangay Sicat, Alfonso, Cavite. After several months, Alfonso municipal dumpsite was closed down and MENRO (Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office) has dispatched dump trucks to Laguna dumpsite ever since. As a result, pick up from some barangays were less frequently prioritized and barangay Sicat MRF had accumulated a large volume of garbage inside.

AWH vice president Casey Takayama talked with Engineer Malou Tibayan at Alfonso Municipality and learned the followings:

  • All garbage from Alfonso have been picked up and transported to Laguna dump site at P20,000 per dump.
  • Alfonso Municipality has contracted with a hauler including Laguna dump site fee of P7,500 per dump, gasoline, truck and labor. Other municipalities pay P20,000 – P25,000.
  • Trash pickup is 5 days a week, i.e. every working day, costing P100,000 a week, approx. P6 million a year.
  • Engineer Tibayan is willing to install a heat processor that turns combustible trash into ashes without any smoke nor dioxin with over 1,000 degree Celsius. She mentioned that Silang Municipality is studying to buy a heat processor from India.
  • A year spending of the dumping expense (approx. P6 million) can already purchase a heat processor. AWH will assist in researching about sources of heat processors.

Update December 13, 2018:

Municipality of Alfonso dispatched another empty dump truck (which costs the municipality P20,000) to barangay (unit of a village) Sicat MRF. Barangay Sicat MRF fund paid for four helpers who also brought their children. The dump truck was fully filled up but about a half of the MRF trash still remained.

We noticed that many bags contained recyclable materials which were supposed to be segregated. It needs to be instructed to MRF pickup team to inspect all the trash bags and not to pick up unsegregated trash. Further more, we discovered that one particular commercial establishment (restaurant business) produces more than 30 trash bags per week. Although it pays P2,000/month MRF fund to barangay Sicat, it needs to be either excluded from trash pickup or charged more because of too large volume of waste.

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Local Waste Management Meeting

On August 5, 2018 AWH was invited by our newly elected Barangay Captain Arnel Caisip along with Material Recovery Facility (MRF) Board members and other Barangay officials to attend the MRF meeting at the Sicat Barangay hall.

Most establishments in our barangay have been paying their monthly MRF dues.

The municipal dump truck has been picking up residual wastes at the MRF shed, which has been built with the donations by AWH and RIMM.

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Material Recovery Facility (MRF)

Many barangays (local communities/villages) do not comply with laws pertaining to separation/recycling of garbage and not polluting nearby waterways and groundwater with dumped garbage. AWH officials who are mostly members of Rotary Club of Multinational Manila (RIMM) therefore had met with local and City Health official in their community and had proposed a bi-weekly curb-side residual waste pickup brought to a roadside collection site designated by the community for monthly pick-up by the City’s dump truck. Project start-up, first year and creek clean-up financial assistance would be provided by RIMM in addition to the money collected from 12 commercial facilities including AWH.

However, the project started on the wrong foot with the residual waste collectors picking up all garbage despite the strict order of only picking up residual waste after the garbage had been separated by residents. The wrongly collected garbage immediately caused health concerns as it accumulated along the road designed for residual waste pickup only. AWH, RIMM members and local officials immediately made the garbage pickup rounds with garbage collectors to further educate the public and to assure that only residual waste was picked up. AWH and RIMM donated to build a roofed and dog-proof MRF (Material Recovery Facility) collection site for the temporary storage of residual waste because of public health and safety concerns.

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廃食油で燃料、そしてキャンドル

２００８年にディーゼル車を改造し、使用済みの天ぷら油が燃料として使えるようになってから、はや５年の月日がたちました。いまだにこのバイオ・カーは走っております。
http://www.awhfoundation.org/picture_library/biofuel/0804Conversion/index-j.html

中古で購入した１９８４年のメルセデス・ベンツ３００ＳＤで、もう３０年前のモデルになります。エアコンやタイヤ、サンルーフなど、メンテナンスは大変ですが、廃食油を使っていることによるトラブルはそれほどありません。
日本食レストランから、大豆油の使用済みを購入しておりますが、遠心分離器チェンバー内をクリーニングする際など、どうしても更なる廃棄用油が出てしまいます。この、廃食油の廃棄分ももったいないので、キャンドルにしてみました。日本から油を固める粉を取り寄せて、食紅を入れてたこ糸で芯をつけてできあがりです。フィリピンはまだ停電が多いので、役に立ってくれると思います。

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世界平和公園（御殿場）

だいぶ前に登ったことのある箱根の金時山登山に再び挑戦。今回は仙石原の金時神社からのぼり、乙女峠を経て金時神社に戻る行程で、所要時間４時間ほどの楽なコースでした。あいにくの小雨模様でしたが、かえって空気は澄んでいて、芦ノ湖も眺望でき、富士山もかすかにその大きな容姿を覗かせました。登山後は、乳白色の硫黄酸性泉、仙石原温泉で疲れを癒します。
翌日は、御殿場の平和公園を訪れました。入場料は無料で、誰でも入ることが出来ます。バスで乗り付けていた大勢の観光客は、ほとんどが中国や東南アジアの人たちで、日本人はほとんどいませんでした。更に、そこで世界平和を祈っている人たちは皆無に見えました。
何でも、富を得た御殿場出身の方が、私費を投じて建設したとか。ネパールっぽい建物は、その国の方が寄付されたようです。意図がすばらしかったので立ち寄りました。戦没者を弔う寺院なども裏手にあり、多少未浄化霊の気配もありましたが、３３観音像などもあり、観光名所としての役割を果たしており、平和的なエネルギーでした。微力ながら、世界平和を祈らせていただきました。合掌。