ARMM, Maguindanao aid workers extend help to flood victims
COTABATO CITY, July 2 (PNA) -- Relief aid workers in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) are on their way to Sultan sa Barongis and other municipalities inundated by flood water due to low pressure area affecting Mindanao.
Lawyer Kirby Abdullah, focal person of ARMM Humanitarian Emergency Action and Response Team (HEART), told DXMS Radyo Bida thAt aid workers are to extend relief assistance to more than 2,000 families or about 14,500 individuals in 12 villages who were displaced by floods since last week.
Sultan sa Barongis, a town in the borders of Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao provinces, have been placed under state of calamity after the Ala River and Kapingkong River overflowed.
Aside from Sultan sa Barongis, also affected were the towns of Datu Paglas, Paglat, Buluan, Mangudadatu, Pandag, Gen. SK Pendatun and Rajah Buayan, the office of Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Toto Mangudadatu showed.
Regional Gov. Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous REgion in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Wednesday directed Abdullah, his assistant secretary for Maguindanao, to spearhead lead relief operations to Sultan sa Barongis where 14,565 villagers were displaced by floods.
The ARMM relief operation will complement the relief assistance extended by the office of Mangudadatu on Wednesday.
According to Lynette Estandarte, provincial budget chief, said the provincial government has dispersed three tons of food and non-food relief supplies to the affected Sultan sa Barongis residents.
Provincial relief workers also distributed pails, kitchen wares and sleeping mats to evacuees.
Estandarte said classes in flooded communities have been suspended since Monday.
With the rainy season, Estandarte said the provincial government employees are continuously packing food rations, comprised of canned goods, instant noodles and rice for distribution to flood victims in the 11 other flooded towns.
On Wednesday, the provincial relief team also distributed assistance to flood victims in Datu Paglas town where residents were forced to flee by rampaging flood waters from South Cotabato mountains.
Abdullah reported that at least 270 hectares of rice farms and 580 corn fields in the province have been flooded. (PNA)
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