DAGUPAN CITY, May 14 (PNA) — Instead of giving cash, the Dagupan City government gave construction materials to 11 families displaced by a fire that razed their houses in the afternoon of May 4 along Amado St. in Dagupan City.
Mayor Belen Fernandez sustained her earlier promise to help the fire victims rebuild their houses when she distributed housing materials to them last May 13.
Each of the 11 families who lost their houses received five galvanized iron sheets, 10 pieces of marine plywood, five pieces of good lumber, umbrella nails, common wire nails and 50 pieces of hollow blocks.
Their labor to build their houses will be their own counterpart to the project.
At the same time, Fernandez instructed City Social Welfare and Development Officer Leah L. Aquino to assist the fire victims acquire some livelihood skills through the city’s Project B.E.L.E.N., organize the community and look after the well-being of the children and include them among the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries if they are qualified.
“There is an ongoing class session on cosmetology and commercial cooking where we can immediately enroll the mothers so that they can provide their families especially their children with food to eat,” Fernandez said.
Aquino said that the names of the fire victims will be submitted to the enumerators of the Department of Social Welfare and Development who will evaluate them and if they are qualified, will be included in the list of 4Ps beneficiaries.
Fernandez also instructed City Engineer Virginia V. Rosario to cause the repair of the community’s existing deep well so that the fire victims will have clean water and to clean their surroundings as well as trim grasses near them to prevent grass fire.
“We should hurry in providing services to them as we know they really need help,” Fernandez said. (PNA)