EASY access to water has been a dream for community members of barangay Bairan, in Vallehermoso town, Negros Oriental.
Getting water from a source in an upland barangay like Bairan is tiring and time consuming.
People in the village had to walk for more than a kilometer to the next barangay to fetch drinking water.
This is one of the reasons why community members of Bairan validated the construction of a level II water system to address their need for water in one of the barangay assemblies conducted during the social preparation stage of Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan – Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS).
“This water system is the realization of our dream. We can have more time to do other things to augment our income because fetching water would be much easier and more convenient. We are thankful to the Department of Social Welfare and Development for this development,” said community volunteer Anastacia Gutang in Cebuano during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Bairan Level II (RAM pump-driven) water system sub-project held early this month.
The project, which costs P1,526,363, will benefit 110 households in the barangay and its neighboring community.
The water system is one of the three sub-project proposals being prioritized for funding under the Kalahi-CIDSS Project, one of the poverty reduction programs of DSWD. The other projects currently being implemented in Vallehermoso are the farm-to-market road in barangay Guba and water system project in barangay Malangsa.