GO GIVES SHOES TO FIRE VICTIM
President Duterte’s closest aide, Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, left a fire site in Manila shoeless.
Go, who visited an impoverished area razed by fire in Sta. Cruz, Manila, after arriving from Singapore with the President, traded his shoes for the slippers of one of the fire victims, who lost all their belongings to the blaze.
Noticing the man, Go asked him: “You want what I’m wearing?” pointing at his shoes. “Come, you can have it as long as it fits you.” It did.
Go’s gesture was part of his aid to the fire victims that included clothes from his closet at home in Davao City.
He inspected the site of the fire, a tightly packed community, with top health officials.
Saddened
Addressing the fire victims, Go said the President is saddened each time he hears of people losing homes to fires.
He said that when he arrived home in Davao from Singapore, he immediately looked at his closet and took clothes to give to the fire victims in Sta. Cruz.
“Instead of keeping these, I brought them for you,” Go said of his clothes.
But he sort of apologized that all the clothes were for men.
Go said government agencies were ready to give aid to them.
He said the national gov- ernment, particularly the Department of Social Welfare and Development, was prepared to distribute food packs while the Department of Health would distribute hygiene packs.
Go told some of the fire victims, who are natives of Davao, that the government was ready to help if they wanted to return to their hometowns.—