1,300 PWDs get rice, veggies, fish in COVID-19 food packs

LIGAO CITY—More than 1,000 persons with disabilities (PWDs) who were being required to stay at home, too, to heed enhanced community quarantine measures for COVID-19, received food packs in Tabaco City on Tuesday (April 14).

Tabaco Mayor Krisel Lagman-Luistro said 1,300 of the city’s poorest PWDs got rice, vegetables and fish “as a form of assistance.”

In Oas town, residents kept from going out of their houses by the lockdown also got food aid from their local government on Tuesday.

Oas Mayor Domingo Escoto said the residents were each given 5 kg of rice and two pieces of bitter gourd, or ampalaya.

Edited by TSB

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