BACOLOD CITY -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DA) Negros Occidental-South has partnered with the Municipality of Hinoba-an to establish a community-managed Potable Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (CPWASH) Project in the village of San Rafael.
Hinobaan is the southernmost town of the province situated 190 kilometers from Bacolod.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Lucrecia Taberna signed a memorandum of agreement with Mayor Ernesto Estrao and San Rafael Upland Farmers Association chairman Rodolfo Gavan on Thursday.
Taberna said the project will benefit at least 1,300 residents of Barangay San Rafael, including 500 students and teachers of San Rafael Elementary School.
She added the DAR will allocate PHP80,000 as counterpart, including PHP50,000 for the purchase of construction materials and PHP30,000 for the project-related technology trainings in the identified project sites.
Para-engineers will be hired for the construction of the facilities.
For its part, the municipal government will fund PHP50,000 for the labor requirement and livelihood project components.
Last month, the DAR Negros Occidental-South also launched the (CPWASH) Project at Barangay Balicotoc in Ilog town in partnership with the Municipal Government of Ilog and the Balicotoc Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Farmers Association.
About 70 households and 501 students and teachers of Balicotoc Elementary School are benefiting from the project, which includes water and sanitation facilities with biosand filter, iron removal filter, biogas digester, and rain water collector.
The DAR also provided PHP80,000 as its counterpart, including PHP50,000 for the purchase of construction materials and PHP30,000 for project-related technology training.
The local government allocated PHP50,000 for the labor requirement and livelihood project components.(PNA)
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