Bulacan turns over R8-million aid to Marawi

CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan – Help continues to pour in for strife-torn Marawi City.

Upon the arrival of the Regional director of the Office of Civil Defense-III, Edgardo J. Ollet at the Bulacan Sports Complex in Barangay Sta. Isabel in this historical city last Friday afternoon, Governor Wilhelmino M. Sy-Alvarado and Provincial Administrator Eugenio Payongayong handed a check for R4 million as part of the R8-million aid of the provincial government to the people of Marawi.

Alvarado said the cash donations came from the people of Bulacan, local government units (LGUs), teachers, students, and employees, including children who requested their parents to smash their piggy banks to give to displaced families in Marawi.

The six trucks containing 4,000 boxes of foodstuff also left the Bulacan grounds on their way to the headquarters of the Office of Civil Defense as the first phase of the “Tulong Bulakenyo Para sa Marawi”.

“This is our own way of giving back. Every time calamities hit our province, other provinces also sent us help and aids,” Alvarado said.

Yesterday, Ollet said that OCD Director Josie Timoteo, chief of operations Task Force Marawi-OCD, was already in Iligan City to supervise the distribution of the donations from Bulacan.

“This is a big help in our effort to help the people of Marawi,” Ollet said.