Bayanihan Across the Country
OCCIDENTAL MINDORO VILLAGES RECEIVE P8.2M
Occidental Mindoro Gov. Eduardo Gadiano has distributed cash worth P8.2 million to 164 barangay (villlage) captains after the province declared a state of calamity on Thursday. Each barangay received P50,000 as relief and financial assistance to them. According to Gadiano, more than 2000 registered and accredited barangay health workers and nutrition scholars will receive P2,500 each as financial assistance.
NIKKI DELOS REYES
BOCAUE TRICYCLE DRIVERS GIVEN CASH ASSISTANCE
Some 4,410 members of the Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association ( TODA) in Bocaue, Bulacan have started receiving cash assistance from the local government. Mayor Eleanor Villanueva-Tugna said the cash assistance plus relief food packs were being given to Bocaue residents with the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine.
Each TODA member will receive P500 while 1,002 members of the solo parents town association are also scheduled next to receive the same amount next. “They rely on their day-to- day work as their means of livelihood and were badly affected by the community quarantine,” Villanueva-Tugna noted. Personnel in the different villages of the town were also being provided with regular monthly allowances, she added. The local government of Bocaue will distribute some 11,200 food packs.
FREDERICK SILVERIO
RELIEF PACKS TO INCLUDE LOCAL PRODUCE
COTABATO CITY: North Cotabato Gov. Nancy Catamco on Friday has recommended to the provincial social welfare office the distribution of relief supplies out of the food products that can be bought from the local producers as everyone in her province is experiencing hardship “to make both ends meet” amid the enhanced community quarantine being observed due to the coronavirus disease crisis. Catamco said locally produced food products like meat, fish, vegetables and other farm products should be the top priority in the procurement and should be included in the relief packs needed for distribution. North Cotabato covers 17 towns with Kidapawan City as its capital. “For now we have sufficient supply of livestock and vegetables we can obtain from agricultural areas in the province. We also have an abundance of freshwater fish from the marshes around,” Catamco said.
JULMUNIR I. JANNARAL