The Mud Crab (Kinis) Festival, Rosario, October 5

The Kinis Festival is an event held to showcase Rosario as ‘the Kinis (mud crab) Capital of Northern Samar’. Nortehanons are encouraged to join this exciting and entertaining celebration.

The Festival will be a full-day event commencing 8am Monday, October 5, 2009. Previous years have been a marketplace for traders only, this year we are expanding the program to include cultural performances, Kinis Competitions, a marketplace of local dishes and hand crafts and mangrove replanting.

The event is jointly hosted by the Municipality of Rosario and local NGO, Sentro ha Pagpauswag ha Panginabuhi (SPPI). SPPI supports the local economy through livelihood and enterprise development in sustainable agriculture and coastal resource management. The event is also supported by the local mud crab farmers of the Mangrove Crab Producer Association of Rosario (MCPAR) who are generously donating their product for various Kinis Festival events. Event details and programme will be posted on this blog closer to the event.


If you wish to sponsor and become involved, please email Rowe Acibar our Enterprise Program Specialist, at rowe_acibar22@yahoo.com

Welcome to SPPI

SPPI is two years old on 17 September 2009; and like any two year olds, it is still in its formative years. Although we can say it is growing pretty sensibly, it needs to solidify its foundation for growth.

In the process, SPPI has implemented its Local Economy Development Program (LEDP) on a phased manner, assessed the relevance of its vision, its mission, and its five pillars for local economy development.

In the midst of SPPI assessment and re-design is the timely transfer of our office; timely because this spells, for us, a fresh start. SPPI now has a new logo, a new brochure, even a revised mission statement.

And, SPPI’s new address is:

Sentro ha Pagpauswag ha Panginabuhi, Inc.
(SPPI or Center for Local Economy Dvelopment)
San Roque St., Brgy Cawayan
Catarman 6400 Northern Samar

The building is hard to miss as it has the SPPI logo-in bold, huge letters-proudly displayed along its side. Look for the red gate then allow us to say, WELCOME TO SPPI!

Be careful not to bump your head on the way up, though, if you are over 5’2” in height : }