August 2014
Editor John Alfred Kabalican
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the metro
Is the DSWD a better Naval gives incentives to barangay health workers
builder?
By VBP News Team Leyte
MATAG-OB, Leyte
–– Residents here are
asking if this is the case,
as their core shelter
units built through the
Core Shelter Assistance
Program (CSAP) of the
Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD) stood
the onslaught of super
typhoon Haiyan.
Other public structures like municipal
buildings,
bridges,
gymnasiums, barangay
halls, day care centers,
and school houses built
through congressional
pork barrel funds, and
even concrete paved
roads yielded to the super typ hoon.
“All 80 core shelter
units built as early as
1991 up to 2000 and
2010 in Barangays San
Guillermo,
Cansuso,
San Sebastian, and San
Marcelino stood after
Yolanda while many
houses in the municipality sustained different states of damage”,
Enrique A. Odtuhan,
Matag-ob
Municipal
Social Welfare and
Development
Officer
(MSWDO) said in a
statement.
“The units were built
to really withstand disasters even as strong as
Yolanda”, he said.
Odtuhan, a 24–year
veteran in the delivery
of municipal social services said he witnessed
the actual construction
of all the DSWD core
shelter units in his municipality.
“We are very happy
that these core shelter
units have remained intact and still providing
safety to the family-recipients.
The town has built 70
more recent core shelter
units in the villages of
Bula, Mansahaon and
Naulayan.
Former Mayor and
now Matag-ob Vice
Mayor Michael L. Tore-
villas said the units were
really durable for them
to be able to defy Yolanda’s force. “Yes, they
are standing despite the
heavy blow,” Vice Mayor
Torevillas said.
In Boston, Davao Oriental local officials confirmed that 27 DSWD
core shelter units constructed in their town
also survived another
strong Tyhoon, Pablo.
“In the aftermath of
typhoon Pablo, we noted that the surrounding
structures and coconut
trees were practically
smashed to the ground
yet the core houses in Barangay Carmen basically
remained whole.
“only about ten units
whose roofing materials were slightly damaged was affected by
the storm”, Municipal
Information Officer Judith Castres of Boston
reported.
The DSWD core shelter program is extended
to individuals or families
left homeless by disasters
or poor families living in
hazardous areas.
The program is a community
development
initiative utilizing the
principles of community
organizing, convergence
of services, and capability
building.
Core shelter beneficiaries are organized
into
Neighbourhood
Association for Shelter Assistance (NASA)
and participate in the
actual construction of
their respective units.
The recipients also undergo Values Formation
Orientation and other
capability building sessions to understand their
situation and problems at
hand and intently work
to arrive at solutions.
Having endured powerful typhoons, the core
shelter units proved their
strength and are being
studied as a model housing structure for future
relocation sites for victims of disasters.
By The VBP News Team
Leyte
NAVAL, Biliran Leyte -Naval in Biliran province
will be the first local government unit to give formal benefits and incentives
to barangay health workers. “The incentive which
has been authorized by a
new municipal ordinance
will be given to accredited health workers in the
grassroots level”, disclosed
Naval mayor Susan V. Parilla.
The implementing rules
of Municipal Ordinance 19
otherwise known as “An
Ordinance Granting Benefits and Incentives to Accredited Barangay Health
Workers and for other
purposes” was signed in a
formal ceremony attended
by regional officials of the
Department of Health.
The signing was a momentous occasion for barangay
health workers of 26 barangays in the municipality of Naval, Biliran who
witnessed the event at the
old Sangguniang Bayan
Historic
1999.
Hall.
The old town hall of Naval in Biliran was the seat of the local government until
session hall in this developing town.
“This is the first local
legislation I know that
grants benefits to barangay health workers and we
support it in recognition of
the enormous sacrifice and
contribution of local health
workers to the development of health service delivery in the grassroots level”, said regional director
Jose Llacuna of the Philippine Department of Health.
“Local government units
must begin to consider the
volunteer health workers
whose benefits have largely
been neglected for some
time” Llacuna added.
Naval councilman Gabino S. Velasquez, IV, a medical doctor by profession,
authored the municipal
ordinance which was ap-
proved by the Sangguniang
Bayan with the full support
of the local government
unit which will source out
the funding for the benefits
and incentives mandated
by the ordinance.
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