BY: ANA-LIZA S. MACATANGAY
NAGA CITY, Sept. 25 (PIA) --- Safe and potable water now finds its way to Bombon town in Camarines Sur following completion of a water system project under the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) program of the government.
Bicol regional director Arnel Garcia of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Office (DSWD), in partnership with the municipal government of Bombon, has implemented the project in 2012 providing this remote area a hefty grant of P1,023,926 from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) that regularly assists to Kalahi-CIDSS program to provide the households with safe and clean drinking water.
Potable water seemed to be a precious commodity in this small municipality long before, with the residents having to get or buy the resource from the neighboring Calabanga town 15 kilometers away and such usually cost them P15 fare and P30-35 charge per water container.
Residents have to negotiate with the 15 kilometer rough road to reach the town’s centro or main area via a motorcycle ride or habal-habal.
Politically subdivided into eight barangays, Bombon is basically an agriculture-dependent area where its more than 15, 437 people rely on farming. Water is nil in most of the areas, particularly in far flung barangays, particularly in the rural Barangay of Pagao, one of the coastal villages in the town of Bombon.
With the available grant, Bombon local government and Barangay Pagao forged a partnership with Calabanga Water District (CAWADI) to providewater services and supply that would help lift the community’s travail of sourcing their drinking water from other towns. This endeavor was fully supported by the DWSD, Kalahi-CIDDS, local government unit of Bombon and the people of Pagao.
Now, not only the 102 households of Pagao now enjoy the 12 water tap stands that provide safe drinking water but also the other 38 households in the adjoining towns of Carigsa and Magarao.
Garcia said DSWD regional office’s Social Marketing Unit reported that in order to ensure the sustainability of the tap stands, two plumbers and one meter reader were chosen from the residents to attend the on-the-job training in CAWADI for free.
Furthermore, CAWADI has helped Pagao in terms of providing technical assistance and capacity building to the volunteers and fabrication of pipes and calibration of water meter during its construction. It also even trained women laborers in pipe laying.
Kalahi-CIDSS is a community-driven development (CDD) program in the Philippines which pushes for the active involvement of local communities in the design and implementation of development projects to address the issue of poverty in the country.
The program is also one of the core social protection programs of DSWD along with Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) which endeavors to solve poverty through convergent efforts in the context of Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2011-2016 pursued by President Benigno Aquino to reduce poverty and empower the poor and the vulnerable.
On October 1, members of the tri-media with the DSWD team will visit the on-going construction of Water Level System Level II in Barangay Pagao to monitor the status of the project and check on the construction of the daycare center in Barangay San Francisco, also in Bombon. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/Camarines Sur)
DSWD, media to check on KALAHI-CIDDS barangay project sites
BY: ANA-LIZA S. MACATANGAY
NAGA CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) --- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Bicol regional office will conduct a media tour on October 1, to check on the status of its ongoing Core Social Protection Programs implemented in various municipalities in Camarines Sur,
Program coordinators of the DSWD and the media will visit and interact with recipient-communities in the municipalities of Gainza and Bombon, two of the 23 municipalities in Camarines Sur where the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDDS).
First stop will be the town of Bombon with the Pagao Water System worth P1,263.742.05 and a Daycare Center in Barangay San Francisco costing P797,490.50 were underway. DSWD is also constructing day care centers in Barangays Sto. Domingo, San Roque; health station in Barangay Sampaloc and drainage canal in Barangay San Jose, also in this town.
A total of 525 children were enrolled at the three day care centers while 280 households will benefit from the constructed water system assured of a safe potable drinking water.
The team will proceed to the municipality of Gainza where five projects were implemented and funded from KALAHI-CIDDS grant and a counterpart from the local government unit.
Part of the projects in the said municipality is the construction of the drainage canals in Barangays Loob and District II covering Zones 2,3 and 4. Total amount cost for the two barangay projects totaled P1,428,456.70. KALAHI-CIDDS grant was P1,040,048.00 while 388,408.75 came from the LGU.
In District 1, the fully covered drainage canal worth P735,541.05 will also be part of the site tour.
A training center for out of school youth (OSY) and mothers was also constructed at Barangay Cagbunga worth P754,105.58 and a Center for handicraft located in Barangay Malbong and is worth P745,030.08.
The said projects are expected to improve the living conditions of the local community and give them ready access to the government’s services. These are also implemented in line with the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program (4Ps) and sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP).
DSWD Bicol regional director Arnel B. Garcia said that the activity will be opened to the media to give them the opportunity to monitor DSWD’s projects at the community level.
The project was first implemented in the eight municipalities in Camarines Sur in 2003. It includes the towns of Garchitorena, Balatan, Del Gallego, Minalabac, Pasacao, Presentacion, Sangay and Siruma and covers 152 barangays. In the project expansion phase which started in 2012, projects were funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) where 15 more municipalities were covered. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/Camarines Sur)
NAGA CITY, Sept. 25 (PIA) --- Safe and potable water now finds its way to Bombon town in Camarines Sur following completion of a water system project under the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) program of the government.
Bicol regional director Arnel Garcia of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Office (DSWD), in partnership with the municipal government of Bombon, has implemented the project in 2012 providing this remote area a hefty grant of P1,023,926 from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) that regularly assists to Kalahi-CIDSS program to provide the households with safe and clean drinking water.
Potable water seemed to be a precious commodity in this small municipality long before, with the residents having to get or buy the resource from the neighboring Calabanga town 15 kilometers away and such usually cost them P15 fare and P30-35 charge per water container.
Residents have to negotiate with the 15 kilometer rough road to reach the town’s centro or main area via a motorcycle ride or habal-habal.
Politically subdivided into eight barangays, Bombon is basically an agriculture-dependent area where its more than 15, 437 people rely on farming. Water is nil in most of the areas, particularly in far flung barangays, particularly in the rural Barangay of Pagao, one of the coastal villages in the town of Bombon.
With the available grant, Bombon local government and Barangay Pagao forged a partnership with Calabanga Water District (CAWADI) to providewater services and supply that would help lift the community’s travail of sourcing their drinking water from other towns. This endeavor was fully supported by the DWSD, Kalahi-CIDDS, local government unit of Bombon and the people of Pagao.
Now, not only the 102 households of Pagao now enjoy the 12 water tap stands that provide safe drinking water but also the other 38 households in the adjoining towns of Carigsa and Magarao.
Garcia said DSWD regional office’s Social Marketing Unit reported that in order to ensure the sustainability of the tap stands, two plumbers and one meter reader were chosen from the residents to attend the on-the-job training in CAWADI for free.
Furthermore, CAWADI has helped Pagao in terms of providing technical assistance and capacity building to the volunteers and fabrication of pipes and calibration of water meter during its construction. It also even trained women laborers in pipe laying.
Kalahi-CIDSS is a community-driven development (CDD) program in the Philippines which pushes for the active involvement of local communities in the design and implementation of development projects to address the issue of poverty in the country.
The program is also one of the core social protection programs of DSWD along with Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) which endeavors to solve poverty through convergent efforts in the context of Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2011-2016 pursued by President Benigno Aquino to reduce poverty and empower the poor and the vulnerable.
On October 1, members of the tri-media with the DSWD team will visit the on-going construction of Water Level System Level II in Barangay Pagao to monitor the status of the project and check on the construction of the daycare center in Barangay San Francisco, also in Bombon. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/Camarines Sur)
DSWD, media to check on KALAHI-CIDDS barangay project sites
BY: ANA-LIZA S. MACATANGAY
NAGA CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) --- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Bicol regional office will conduct a media tour on October 1, to check on the status of its ongoing Core Social Protection Programs implemented in various municipalities in Camarines Sur,
Program coordinators of the DSWD and the media will visit and interact with recipient-communities in the municipalities of Gainza and Bombon, two of the 23 municipalities in Camarines Sur where the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDDS).
First stop will be the town of Bombon with the Pagao Water System worth P1,263.742.05 and a Daycare Center in Barangay San Francisco costing P797,490.50 were underway. DSWD is also constructing day care centers in Barangays Sto. Domingo, San Roque; health station in Barangay Sampaloc and drainage canal in Barangay San Jose, also in this town.
A total of 525 children were enrolled at the three day care centers while 280 households will benefit from the constructed water system assured of a safe potable drinking water.
The team will proceed to the municipality of Gainza where five projects were implemented and funded from KALAHI-CIDDS grant and a counterpart from the local government unit.
Part of the projects in the said municipality is the construction of the drainage canals in Barangays Loob and District II covering Zones 2,3 and 4. Total amount cost for the two barangay projects totaled P1,428,456.70. KALAHI-CIDDS grant was P1,040,048.00 while 388,408.75 came from the LGU.
In District 1, the fully covered drainage canal worth P735,541.05 will also be part of the site tour.
A training center for out of school youth (OSY) and mothers was also constructed at Barangay Cagbunga worth P754,105.58 and a Center for handicraft located in Barangay Malbong and is worth P745,030.08.
The said projects are expected to improve the living conditions of the local community and give them ready access to the government’s services. These are also implemented in line with the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino program (4Ps) and sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP).
DSWD Bicol regional director Arnel B. Garcia said that the activity will be opened to the media to give them the opportunity to monitor DSWD’s projects at the community level.
The project was first implemented in the eight municipalities in Camarines Sur in 2003. It includes the towns of Garchitorena, Balatan, Del Gallego, Minalabac, Pasacao, Presentacion, Sangay and Siruma and covers 152 barangays. In the project expansion phase which started in 2012, projects were funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) where 15 more municipalities were covered. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/Camarines Sur)
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