By PNA
Mayor Sara Duterte’s Food for Work program locally dubbed as “Bayanihan ni Inday sa Barangay†was launched on Monday at SM City Davao, to feed poor Davao townsfolk on condition that they will work.
City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) acting chief Roberto Alabado III said the program is mainly getting rid of the dole-out mentality where government provides and the beneficiaries just receive.
Alabado said the program also kicked off with the coastal clean-up and “Dirt Net Fence†project naming Barangay 23-C as pilot barangay.
He said the indigents who will be identified by the City Social Services Development Office (CSSDO) will have to work before they will be given food in the form of grocery items right after their work. The grocery items have yet to be specified but surely it will include rice, noodles, and sardines.
About 50 identified indigents will work for four hours in the morning and another 50 workers in the afternoon at the 10 puroks of Barangay 23-C. They will collect garbage in the coastal areas of their community and then install the net fence.
The Davao City Food for Work Program is in line with the Davao City’s Environment Enhancement Program that requires barangay participation particularly on drainage clean-up, road and island maintenance, coastal clean-up, urban greening, reforestation and the like. The program which will become a regular activity for the poor will cover 182 barangays including 31 coastal and riverbanks areas and 44 flood-prone barangays in the first phase of implementation.
Alabado said the program is a public private partnership. For the coastal clean-up for instance, a private company provided the nets.
City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) chief Joey Felizarta for his part assured there is sufficient supply of seedlings for the reforestation activity. He said the program is very useful since aside from providing food for the poor it will also augment the protection and preservation of the environment.
Chiefs of offices of key departments of the city government are directly involved in the program. The Office of the City Mayor is the lead agency of the program in coordination with the offices of CENRO, CPDO, CSSDO, City Engineer’s Office and Barangay Cultural Communities Affairs Division, Alabado added. (PNA)
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