“Kanang kwarta para sa pamilya, para sa bata,” this is one of the many reminders President Rodrigo Roa Duterte said in his speech at the Poblacion Evacuation Center in Bais City and New Market in Manjuyod, Negros Oriental, on December 29, 2021.

With the President are DSWD Secretary Rolando Joselito Bautista, Assistant Secretary for Disaster Response Management Group Rodolfo Encabo, and DSWD 7 Regional Director Rebecca P. Geamala.

DSWD Region 7 has started giving out the P5,000 Assistance for Individuals in Crisis (AICS) to displaced families and those who have casualties due to Typhoon Odette in Bais City and the municipalities of Manjuyod, Mabinay, and Bindoy.

Initial numbers of Family Food Packs were also released simultaneously on the same day at the abovementioned areas.

The President also informed the affected families in the province that the national government, through DSWD, will give out trapal and kitchen sets to help them start anew.

Secretary Bautista also inspected the modular tents being used by the evacuees inside Bais Evacuation Center.

Director Geamala visited the payout venues in Bais, Manjuyod, and Mabinay to ensure that the services and assistance were provided to the beneficiaries.

Geamala and Encabo also met with Congresswoman Jocelyn Limkaichong and the province’s first district mayors to discuss other necessary needs of the affected families. ###

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