Fire victims get aid
By Michelle Joy PadayhagThe Visayan Electric Company (Veco) through its Labor Management Cooperative and Veco Employees Union, distributed relief goods to the 462 families affected by the fire in barangay Ermita, Cebu City.
The Visayan Electric Company (Veco) through its Labor Management Cooperative and Veco Employees Union, distributed relief goods to the 462 families affected by the fire in barangay Ermita, Cebu City.
A number of civil society groups in Mindanao have expressed support for Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman and the Department of Social Welfare and Development following last week’s raid on the DSWD regional office in Davao City by typhoon victims demanding relief goods.
A three-day protest “occupation” outside the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) regional office in Davao City might have ended on a reconciliatory note on Wednesday night, but Secretary Corazon Soliman is haling the agitators and looters to court.
Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman denied that the bunkhouses that her agency is building in typhoon-devastated areas are overpriced.
Hundreds of residents complaining of the uneven distribution of relief goods ended their occupation of a highway here that blocked vehicular traffic for a few hours on Tuesday.
Davao Oriental Gov. Corazon Malanyaon on Sunday denied reports provincial government employees and residents of the least affected area of Mati had been benefiting from relief assistance meant for victims of Typhoon “Pablo” in the province.
FINANCIAL and material assistance were provided yesterday by Capitol officials in three southern Cebu towns that were hit hardest by typhoon Pablo two weeks ago.
The more than 3,000 Mandaue City employees will be divided into 10 groups as part of the city’s efforts to donate relief goods to typhoon Pablo victims in Mindanao and Central Visayas. Each group will pool their resources to come up with relief goods to be donated to the affected residents. “May they [...]
The Bosconian International Chamber of Commerce Cebu (BICC Cebu) turned over donations raised from the “Tabang Luzon for Flood Victims” relief program.
Relief goods have to be quick and easy to cook, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be healthy as well.
Some roads in far-flung barangays in Negros Oriental are blocked and not passable making it difficult to deliver relief goods there.
Gov. Roel Degamo of Negros Oriental has no shame. He put his name on the relief goods for earthquake victims donated by charitable organizations.
A PUMPBOAT sent to deliver relief goods to the quake-struck town of La Libertad, Negros Oriental, almost sank but reached its destination after being rescued by pumpboat operators and military choppers yesterday afternoon.
