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Official says profiling is needed to determine what assistance can be given to the Marawi City evacuees. National Commission on Muslim Filipinos Visayas expects more evacuees from Marawi City to take refuge in Cebu.
The Cebu City Government took the profiles of some 150 refugees from Marawi City, a week after they arrived in the city. “Our profiling will continue in the coming days. This is for the purpose of identifying what help the government should extend to the refugees, particularly on their livelihood,” said Malo Manonggiring, Commission on Muslim Filipinos Visayas director. The refugees arrived in the city on board a ship from Iligan City. Manonggiring said the first batch of refugees are staying in the cities of Cebu, Talisay, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu. The number of evacuees is expected to increase as more people flee the beleaguered city of Marawi.
Some 150 evacuees from Marawi City had their profiles taken by the Cebu City Government, a week after arriving here.
Malo Manonggiring, National Commission on Muslim Filipinos Central Visayas director, said that they finished the profiling last Thursday.
“Our profiling will continue in the coming days. This is for the purpose of identifying what help the government can extend to the refugees, particularly in terms of their livelihood,” Manonggiring told reporters yesterday.
The number of evacuees, he said, is expected to increase in the coming days as more people flee from Marawi.
The 150 evacuees arrived in Cebu City on board a ship from Iligan City last week.
Manonggiring said the first batch of evacuees are now staying in the cities of Cebu, Talisay, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu.
He assured the Cebuanos that the arrival of evacuees will not spark the same armed clash in Marawi.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development 7 is coordinating with its counterparts in Region 10 and the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao in the profiling of the refugees before they are allowed to leave for Cebu. /