Pride in building destroyed homes

TRAILS UP NORTH
Glo Abaeo Tuazon

BAGUIO CITY -- The Igorot Global Organization in its thrust to help people afflicted by recent calamities has done efforts to raise funds from their members abroad, either through personal donations or fund raising events.

At most, help and aid tended by other organizations and agencies came in the form of food, clothes, medicines and other stuff. IGO officers and members decided it wise to give some 15 beneficiaries a little reprieve by hiring them to work in rehabilitation of destroyed facilities or other community services.

Each beneficiary-worker will work 22 days at a rate of 300 per day (right hours daily) to give them a total of P6,600 honorarium at the end of the program date. The 15 beneficiaries were chosen and identified by the local municipal government unit and the names submitted to the IGO project coordinator in the person of Ryan Dale O. Mangusan.

The work and place of work were identified by local government unit and commenced in La Trinidad last Nov. 16 to end on Dec. 16. In Kayan, Tadian work started Nov. 23 and will end Dec. 23.

As counterpart, the municipality was tasked to provide free meals during the work days of the beneficiaries so that at the end of the 22-day program they could bring home the whole amount to their families.

The rationale of the program is to help some of the victims, those who are most in need of funds because of the loss of their properties or family members. This would give the people a way to vent out their trauma by helping rehabilitate the places destroyed by the typhoon and defeat the idea of just giving dole-outs which are good for immediate help. Making people earn the money will also give them back their pride. -- Email: twilight_glo@yahoo.com