Re-elected Senator Loren Legarda
today said that working on legislation and programs that will make the lives of
Filipinos better will be her focus on the next six years of her term.
“The focus of my term as a senator is
making the lives of Filipinos better, primarily by ensuring that basic services
reach the poorest sector and building a more humane society,” said Legarda, who
will be serving her third term.
The Senator stressed that issues such
as universal healthcare, education, livelihood, and disaster resilience, which
are all vital to the everyday living of Filipinos, will be her main concern.
Among the priority measures she will
file in the incoming 16th Congress are the Pantawid Tuition
Program, which would fund one college graduate in every poor Filipino family;
the barangay disaster resilience program, which aims to ensure that every
community in the country is prepared when disasters occur; and the Magna Carta
for the Poor.
Other priority bills include: the
Magna Carta for Public School Teachers; increasing subsistence allowance of
soldiers and police; barangay health workers benefits; agricultural extension
workers benefits; anti-ethnic profiling; and creating a folk art museum in
every province.
