Wednesday, 6 November 2019
Daily Tribune
No need for SOS,
r
Ct NDRRMC
qy kbtlna Uaralit
r Therc is no need to send an S0S to the
international conmunity iust yet to address
rbscue, relief and rehabilitation efforts in
quakehit areas of Mindanao, the National
Iiisaster Risk Reduction and Management
oouncil OTDRRMC) said yesterday.
I.IDRRMC Executive Director and ofllce
df Civil Defense (oCD) Undersecretary
govemment
Sica,rdo Jalad said tle national
has enough resources to tend to ihe needs
of those deeply affected by the series of
tremblors that hit the region last x/eek,
Jalad assured that the agency has enough
trnds for relief supplies for Mindanan wlth
tire Departnent of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) and oCD steering
the distdbution of relief goods.
trotrse, IGU prwide a.id
lhe Ho.use of Representatives has staxted
raising furds and collecting donations for the
thousards of victirns of ihestrongearthqual€s
that struck C,ot€bato trovince and other pafts
of Minda.nao last rnonth.
Speaker Alan Peter Cayeta.no said about
90 lswmake$ har'e aheady responded to the
call 0f the House leade$hip for donations
as DeDuW Spea.ker Paolo Dutefte made the
rounds in the House last M0nday moming to
seek helD for the victims,
With the conrinuing Earth\ubkes in
Mindanao, Cayetano vowed to rush the
passage of a bill that would create a
department that would focus on disaster
preparedness a.f,d ernergency resporuie.
Some local goyesunent units (tcu) have
also pledged to donate to the earthquake
victims as the Pasig City government and
Cebu province pledged their own donaiions
for lie victims of a series of earthquakes in
Mindanao.
Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto said it will donate
relief goods and P14 million which will go
directly to the cities and municipaliries,
adding that they wi donaie P3 million to
the municipali8 of Makilala a.nd P2 rnillion
each will be Siyen to the municipalities of
T\duna& M'lang ard Kidapawan, all in the
prwince of Cotabato.
Cebu has also pledged to donaJe more
than P30 milion in relief Soods and financial
assistance to the quakestdcken a,rcas as C€bu
Gov. G\ryendob'n Garcia said that the troYince
hs-s allocated P20 rnillion as its frnancial
\ ,oAq.g - Bk5'/
assistanc€ for eiSht torvns in Mindanso tlut
rere hardly hii by tlie e thqual€6, n'hile
Mayor E$gardo Labella alSo said ihat tltey
wiu send assistance to llindanao in form of
relief goods ttorth P10 million.
Pag,:Ibtg' OWWA €xt€trds holp
tuound PbB in calanitY loan fimds ar€
r€aff for Pa€:IBIC nnd membors affectnd by
the shing of devastating eadlquakes thai hit
Mindanao, according to Ssoetary Eduardo
D. del Rosado, Chairman ofthe Houslng and
U$an Devblopment Coordinating Council
0fllDCC) and the PagJBJG FInd Board of
lYustees.
Uderthe lrogrer! qualilied menbels nw
bonow W to 80 per.ent oftheir tot€l Pa8:EIG '
regular savings, which con$st oftheir montry
conb:ibutions, their employeCs conhibutions,
and accumulaied dhiderds eamed. Eligible
borloy/e$ may sYail of the Calanity Loan
within 90 days ftom the declamtion of a state
of calaniw in their area of rcsidence.
Meanflhile, oyerseas Filipino workers
(OFW) a^ffected by the earthquakes could
also avail of financial assistance ftom the
Overseas Workers Welfare Administration
'(owwA).