BAUKO, Mountain Province – Many families here
affected by calamities like landslides have already been given houses by the
government.
National Economic and
Development Authority-Cordillera regional director Milagros Rimando
recently visited this town and discussed the status of the Core Shelter
Assistance Project (CSAP) of the Department of Social Welfare and
Development with Mayor Abraham Akilit and the Neighborhood Association
for Shelter Assistance (NASA), the organization of the project’s beneficiaries,
represented by Gabriel Pocais.
CSAP aims to grant
indigent families who have been residing in hazardous areas classified by the
Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources, as well as those who may have been afflicted by previous natural
disasters.
There are 355 units
for the said project at Kalimbatawa relocation site in barangay Otucan Sur,
Bauko, of which 200 are already done and were turned over to the beneficiaries.
Sixty five families have already occupied their respective units.
Moreover,
electricity from the Mountain Province Electric Cooperative is delivered
to 35 families. The abandoned water spring rehabilitated by NASA in 2012 now
distributes water to the houses.
The DSWD noted
that there is a strong bayanihan of the families in the site. They undergo
social preparation through meetings and organization of committees.
If the beneficiaries
incur violations for not attending meetings, not joining bayanihan, being late
as well as drinking liquors, penalty is collected and the money goes to the
budget for the pipeline.
According to the
beneficiaries, they feel safe and are not worried to sleep in their new
homes even if there is a typhoon.
The
beneficiaries are those whose houses are located within the sinking area
in Otucan, Bauko.
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