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| Residents of Albay in evacuation centers / photo from PAGCOR (ctto) |
Manila, Philippines – On Wednesday, the Department of Social
Welfare and Development has reported that a total of P81.09 million worth of
assistance has been extended to the affected families made by series of eruptions
of Mayon volcano.
Out of the said amount, P18.93 was sourced from the
department, then P2.85 million from local government units (LGUs), then
P532,626 from non-government organizations (NGOs), and P58.78 million from other humanitarian aid providers.
This report was issued on January 31 by the Disaster
Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center (DROMIC).
According to DSWD Officer-in-Charge Emmanuel Leyco said that
the department and its provincial office in Bicol region are helping LGUs meet
the needs of the evacuated residents in Albay.
“Based on our consultations with DSWD Field Office 5
(Bicol), we have enough provisions to augment the supplies we already
prepositioned with the LGUs. We maintain a daily inventory of said supplies,
and we closely monitor them to ensure that we can immediately send more from
our warehouses in Pasay and Cebu,” Leyco said in a statement.
Albay’s provincial action teams have distributed food packs to
displaced families from Barangay Matanag, Legazpi City who are staying at the
Albay Central School, and also to evacuees at the Buraguis Elementary School,
Legazpi as of Tuesday.
The food packs contain 6kg of rice, four cans of sardines,
four cans of corned beef, and 6 packs of coffee.
The DSWD also coordinated with the Office of the Civil
Defense to talk about President Rodrgo Duterte’s instruction to construct additional
toilets, and temporary learning spaces in evacuation centers.
Furthermore, for the affected areas, DSWD has waived the conditions
for beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
“We have already met with officials of our regional office
in Bicol and we decided that we will call for the suspension of the
conditionalities for 4Ps so that our beneficiaries can receive their cash
grants without having to meet the conditions for the program,” Leyco said.
“We will make our cash-for-work payouts more frequently so
that the beneficiaries would be able to receive the cash as they need them,” he
added, this applies to all affected beneficiaries staying in evacuation
centers.
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