TAGUM CITY, June 8, 2015 - 28 families who are
members of the city’s Indigenous Cultural Communities/ Indigenous Peoples were
recently made the beneficiaries of the Shelter Assistance Program of the Department
of Social Welfare and Development and the City Government of Tagum.
Implemented through the city’s Social Welfare
and Development Office under the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting Process, the
program is jointly carried out by the DSWD and the local government to provide
homes to the 28 families of Indigenous Peoples whose houses were destroyed,
either partially or totally, during the onslaught of Typhoon Pablo in 2012.
The joint undertaking, which is pegged at ₱2.6
million, with the City of Tagum pledging the amount of ₱400,000 as its
counterpart, is in accordance with the policy of the State to provide shelter
to the families/victims whose houses are destroyed by natural or man-made disasters
and calamities, and is in line with the City Government’s developmental thrust
on Social Services.
Each IP family/beneficiary of the program is
estimated to complete the ₱70,000- worth shelter unit within ten days after the
implementation of the project and will also be paid the amount of P22,600.00 in
exchange for their services or involvement during an 8-hour, 10-day
construction work on the aforementioned shelter unit.
The beneficiaries who are all members of the
Mansaka tribe from the city’s 4 flood-prone barangays of Pagsabangan, Mankilam,
San Miguel and Canocotan were identified and selected by the Datus and Bias of
their respective barangays.
The program was implemented during a ground
breaking ceremony on May 28, 2015 at the city’s resettlement area at RTU
Village, Purok 2, Apokon, Tagum City and was participated in by Tagum City
Mayor Allan L. Rellon, DPA, PhD., Hon. Macario Bermudez, Hon. Allan Zulueta,
Hon. Francisco Remitar, Indigenous Peoples Mandatory Representative Damiano
Cipro, City ENRO Engr. Elias Ragos, City Engineer Roosevelt Corporal, Local
Housing Board’s Engr. Bernardo Castor, Acting City PDO Arturo
Manigo, Acting City GSO Roger Dompol, CSWDO Nora C. Lupiba, RSW, and Brgy.
Apokon Captain Bryan Kim Samuel Angoy. (Richi D. Gulle/CIO Tagum)
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