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Housing units given for dam-affected families
« on: January 18, 2017, 12:50:52 PM »
Housing units given for dam-affected families
Published: December 03, 2006 by The Bohol Standard

Thirty-five (35) housing units at the Couples for Christ (CFC) Gawad-Kalinga (GK) Housing Project in Barangay Bayongan, San Miguel town were inaugurated last Friday.

Dubbed as the PGMA & Gov. Erico B. Aumentado GK Village, the project is the epitome of the governor’s convergence strategy. It solved what could be a potential social problem that Engr. Modesto Membreve of the Project Management Office (PMO) in Barangay Bulilis in Ubay town of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) admits he encountered in the implementation of the Bohol Irrigation Project Stage 2 (BHIP 2).

Rev. Fr. Eutemio Espina officiated at the blessing rites.

“President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may not be here but I talked with her over the phone earlier this afternoon and she conveys her congratulations to the new homeowners, saying that attending to the needs of the poor and the depressed is always top priority in her agenda,” Aumentado told the homeowners headed by Demetrio Carnice Sr.

Aumentado assisted by Membreve, Provincial GK Head Mario Ramir Yu and his wife, Resource Generation Head of GK-Bohol and of CFC Jose Ong and San Miguel Mayor Silvino Evangelista distributed the certificates of occupancy to the homeowners as GK Site Coordinator Rod Gonzalez read off their names.

Convergence

To note, President Arroyo allocated P500,000 for the project as counterpart to the Provincial Government’s P1.5 million. It is also keeping in a trust account at least P500,000 for the livelihood projects of the beneficiaries.

“I have ordered my executive assistant for financial management to prepare the check so that I can turn it over to CFC and GK on Monday after the flag ceremony,” Aumentado said.

The CFC and GK gathered volunteers to help build the houses and inculcate Christian values into the families. They will also conduct skills training and enhancement seminars to ensure that the money allotted for such will be used accordingly and not diverted to other needs otherwise it will defeat the purpose.

While conducting civil works on the Bayongan Dam, NIA-BHIP 2 also effected the land preparation for the GK project site and provided water for its waterworks system.

The Bohol Electric Cooperative (Boheco) under Engr. Carlos Itable provided the power and the electrical lines and poles that attend to it. The local office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) then under PENRO Arius Ilano provided the lumber and fletches for the trusses and beams from those in their custody confiscated for being transported without the necessary documents.

The Department of Agrarian Reform under Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer Johnson Sinco provided the land with clean titles to the beneficiaries.

Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Co., Ltd. under Yung Qu Park provided the sand and gravel for the house construction and improved the road leading to the housing site.

The Office of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development under Constancia Tuñacao provided food for the families as they built the houses under its Food for Work Program. This took away the worries of the beneficiaries as to food for their families as they suspended all other livelihood while constructing their houses.

The houses are constructed on 280-square-meter lots so that the farmers still have areas to develop as gardens. NIA BHIP 2 also absorbed most heads of the beneficiary families as workers, depending on their skills.

The 35 are part of the 101 families whose houses and lands they used to till will be submerged with the completion of the Bayongan Dam that will irrigate 5,300 hectares more of rice lands in San Miguel, Ubay and Trinidad towns.

Witnessing the turnover were Barangay Captains Demetrio Carnice Jr. of Los Angeles , Ubay who is also a beneficiary, Rogelio Cutillas of Bayongan and Fausto Bustillos of Camanaga both of San Miguel.

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