DAVAO CITY and Presidential daughter Sara Carpio was also praises to her “Big Sister” Mayor Beng Climaco when she narrated how the Zamboanga City chief executive treated her during their time together.
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| Davao City Mayor Sara Carpio and Zamboanga City Mayor Beng Climaco show the sisterhood accord. (Giana Andrion) |
“I see her now as a Big Sister because she always takes care of me when we are together,” Carpio said of Climaco following the signing of the sisterhood agreement between Davao and Zamboanga cities at City Hall.
Carpio and her team,
together with House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and Davao Oriental Governor
Claude Bautista travelled all the way to Zamboanga City for the sisterhood
accord. Carpio and Climaco shared their moments together, reminiscing the time
they both had been invited last year by Washington to attend the “Strong Cities, Strong Partnerships: A Comprehensive Approach
to Preventing Terrorism in Southeast Asia” under the auspices of the International
Visitor Leadership Program of the U.S. Department of State.
The signing of the sisterhood accord on July 15 came six years after Climaco and then Davao City Mayor and now President Rodrigo Duterte pledged to the agreement. The accord intends to create and fortify an open communicative atmosphere to induce a heightened exchange of ideas, particularly in the fields of tourism and culture, agriculture and trade and commerce.
The event was limited to representatives and assistants of both Climaco and Carpio due to the strict health protocols in Zamboanga City.
“Individually, our two cities are strong, but we are stronger when we are together,” Carpio told Climaco. The Zamboanga mayor has all praises too for Carpio, citing her assistance to Zamboanga’s Covid-19 efforts, saying “Davao has been a Sister City, always ready to help and assist Zamboanga, even before the sisterhood pact was formalized.”
“In God’s perfect timing, we finally signed the sisterhood agreement which began in the time of Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte when Zamboanga City officials were invited to Davao. It has been close to 6 years. Mayor Sara has been helping Zamboanga City since the early part of the pandemic through the provision of testing equipment such as the RT-PCR machines were donated to the Zamboanga City Medical Center and the City Government,” Climaco said.
“Our technologists were sent to RITM (Research Institute for Tropical Medicine) Davao for training and have passed the proficiency for the operation our own City Modular Laboratory. Mayor Sara has facilitated a mercy mission by sending a team of Davao burn specialists and experts in psycho-social debriefing to assist the C-130 (crash) victims from Jolo. Victims with severe burns were transferred to Davao for further treatment. Davao social workers are in Zamboanga City to provide needed therapy to the remaining crash victims,” she added.
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| Davao City Mayor Sara Carpio and Zamboanga City Mayor Beng Climaco during their visit to the C-130 plane crash victims at the Zamboanga City Medical Center. They were assisted by the Chief of Hospital Dr. Afdal Kunting. (Giana Andrion) |
Climaco also recalled her U.S. trip with Carpio and said “I and Mayor Sara have been blessed to be part of the U.S. Government’s International Visitors Leadership Program prior to pandemic and as a result, we continue to respond to security and health and learn from each other to respond to crisis and emergencies. Davao’s (emergency hotline) 911 is a template for Zamboanga City and other local governments in the country. We are learning from each other in responding to man-made and natural disasters. With two daughters of Mindanao serving our Cities of Davao and Zamboanga, we carry on our Fathers’ dedication of public service,” the mayor said.
During Carpio’s stay, she and Climaco along with Velaso and Bautista visited the Fort Pilar Shrine and the newly rehabilitated R.T. Lim Boulevard to showcase their historical value and significance to Zamboanga City. They also visited the soldiers wounded in the plane crash at the Zamboanga City Medical Center and spoke to them. The Chief of Hospital, Dr. Afdal Kunting assisted the two influential mayors.
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| Davao City Mayor Sara Carpio and Zamboanga City Mayor Beng Climaco enjoy a chat at the R.T. Lim Boulevard. (Bong Serondo) |
Before leaving Zamboanga, Carpio thanked Climaco for the warm reception and hospitality and invited her to visit Davao City again. Climaco also praised Carpio for her simplicity, kindness, and humility.
The sisterhood agreement is the 4th
for Zamboanga City under the Climaco administration. The other sister cities
are Guigang in China which was signed on October 24, 2016; Puerto Princesa City
signed on October 11, 2018 and Isabela City in Basilan province on October 11,
2017. Zamboanga City is also set to sign similar agreements with Dezhou City in
China and Manado City in Indonesia. (Zamboanga Post)
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