UP-Min CommArts students successfully held Lihok Batok Rabies 2015

UP Mindanao Lihok Batok Rabies team with some of the participants

A group of 4^th year BA Communication Arts student-researchers from the University of the Philippines Mindanao successfully held ‘Lihok Batok Rabies 2015,’ a seminar/lecture on rabies awareness and rabies prevention last May 17, 2015. The event took place at the Gymnasium of Barangay Crossing Bayabas, Toril, Davao City.

The seminar/lecture was an admission free event opened to all the residents of Barangay Crossing Bayabas. Residents from adjacent barangays also attended the said rabies awareness event.

The seminar aimed to inform and educate the residents of Barangay Crossing Bayabas about rabies. The student-researchers earlier found out that Barangay Crossing Bayabas is one of the barangays in the city which has a high number of rabies cases and that the residents of the barangay have a lot of misconceptions about rabies.

“We were alarmed by our group’s research and decided to do something in order to address the problem that we discovered in the barangay, and Lihok Batok Rabies 2015 was one of the solutions that we came up with. With how things turned out, it made us really happy that our event served as an avenue for the residents of Barangay Crossing Bayabas in order to become more knowledgeable and more aware about rabies and the things that we could do against it,” Caryl Boliver, the Campaign Head, said.

Lihok Batok Rabies 2015 featured Ms. Ma. Noreen J. Eng, RMT, Acting Head-Research and Laboratory Division, and Dr. Noel Martin, Division Chief-Animal Husbandry and Disease Control Division, from the City Veterinary’s Office as speakers for the said event. “We would really like to thank Dr. Martin and the City Veterinary’s Office for sharing our desire of helping the residents to be more well-informed about rabies. We would also like to thank the residents who actively participated in our event for having the drive and willingness to learn more. We’re also very happy for the success of the event. Together, we continue to hope for a rabies-free Davao City and a rabies-free Philippines by 2017.” Boliver added.

For inquiries and more event details, you may reach us at 0923-614-9339 or through email, kienowenpamosena@ymail.com.

Kien Owen Pamosena, Communications and Public Relations Director, BA Communication Arts, UP Mindanao