Davao gives typhoon aid to Mt. Province

By Andrew Doga-ong       

BONTOC, Mountain Province -- The city government of Davao has given financial assistance to this province, one of the hardest-hit provinces  by super typhoon Lawin recently.

Davao City disaster risk reduction and management office head Emmanuel Jaldon, Lyndon Leovee Ancajas of the same office and Virgilio San Pedro of the Davao City treasurer’s office, travelled to Mountain Province to personally hand over the financial aid.

On hand to receive the check worth P350,000 at the PDRRMO center here were Gov. Bonifacio Lacwasan, Jr. and personnel led by PDRRM officer lawyer Edward Chumawar, Jr.

Lacwasan  expressed the province’s gratitude to the city government of Davao for their concern saying their financial assistance would be a great help for the province to cope with losses and restore damages wrought by super typhoon Lawin.

Mountain Province was devastated by Lawin with major roads closed to vehicular traffic for several days due to washouts, landslides, damaged bridges, toppled electric poles and felled trees. 

The province had no electricity for almost a week due to toppled electric posts/poles of both National Grid Corp. of the Philippines and the Mt. Province Electric Cooperative. 

Aside from damages on infrastructure, the province also incurred almost a P100 million worth of damages in agriculture mostly in agricultural municipalities of Bauko and Paracelis.  

        Lawin also left almost 700 houses partially damaged and about 30 houses totally destroyed.

        Mt. Province and four other Cordillera provinces were placed under state of calamity.