Housing project for fire victims almost a reality
By Nathaniel R. MelicanThe proposed housing project for hundreds of families who lost their homes in a blaze last month in Valenzuela City has become a step closer to becoming a reality.
The proposed housing project for hundreds of families who lost their homes in a blaze last month in Valenzuela City has become a step closer to becoming a reality.
Three months after Typhoon “Pablo” devastated this town, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is still building bunkhouses for residents who had been rendered homeless by the calamity.
Annaliza Leban gave birth to Charlie, the first of the triplets, in this town on Nov. 27. That same day she was rushed to a hospital in Mati City to deliver, this time by Caesarean section, Charmaine and Charlene.
Informal settlers along a waterway in Manila posted heart-shaped notes on trees expressing their gratitude as they witnessed the groundbreaking rites for a housing project on Thursday.
Coconut farmers in the town of Baganga in Davao Oriental are asking the Philippine Coconut Authority to help them recover from the devastation left by Typhoon Pablo last December by allowing them to sell fallen coconut trees outside the province without having to pay any fees.
Dedon Manufacturing Inc., together with its partners Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation-Integrated Development Center Inc. (JPIC) and Karl Kubel Stiftung (KKS), completed its re-housing project for Umapad scavengers in barangay Bagalnga, Compostela town, northern Cebu. Last Feb. 5, Dedon turned over the houses to the 16 families comprising the third and last batch of [...]
For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia’s wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, like Leung Cho-yin, home is a metal cage.
In the next three months, at least 300 housing units will be constructed here, courtesy of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan’s various companies.
The Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI), together with Vereniging Haarlemermeer Cebu (VHC), recently turned over two quad houses and a multipurpose building to the Badjao community in sitio Puntod, barangay Alaska Mambaling, Cebu City. The multipurpose building was named after a historical symbol in Haarlemmermeer, the Dik Trom Center. Felicito Asamsa, chieftain of the Bajaus [...]
The Department of Agrarian Reform has pledged support for the humanitarian organization Gawad Kalinga (GK) and its army of volunteers in building “new townships” for farmers awarded parcels of land under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
The Department of Agrarian Reform has pledged support for the humanitarian organization Gawad Kalinga (GK) and its army of volunteers in building “new townships” for farmers awarded parcels of land under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
Celebrating the coming of the New Year is the last thing on Wilfredo Dineros III’s mind. Aside from losing a loved one, he and his family were among the more than 7,000 residents who were left homeless on Christmas Day in San Juan City after a blaze that reached the general alarm engulfed hundreds of shanties in Barangays St. Joseph and Isabelita.
About 1,000 families, who live under bridges or along creeks, or who have lost their homes to typhoons and other calamities, are to be provided havens in two resettlement projects here.
