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Friday, April 3, 2020

Food packs distributed house-to-house in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The local government continued Friday the house-to-house distribution of food packs to poor residents to augment the relief aid given out by village officials.
Mayor Beng Climaco strictly supervises the repacking and distribution of food packs to the beneficiaries. City councilors and village officials and social workers are leading the distribution of relief assistance.

Each food pack contains rice, canned goods, noodles and even vitamins and residents, particularly senior citizens, thanked Climaco for the ration.
Two elderly residents of Zamboanga City thank Mayor Beng Climaco for the food packs they received. The City Government continues house-to-house distribution of relief aid to poor families. (Zamboanga Post)
The local government’s food assistance program through the City Social Welfare and Development Office began early this week and has already served hundreds of families in different barangays to help augment food packs distributed by barangay officials.
Tetuan Barangay Chairman Walmart Atilano and barangay workers distribute food packs from the City Social Welfare and Development Office. 
(Zamboanga Post)

President Rodrigo Duterte - through the Department of the Interior and Local Government – ordered barangay officials to provide food aid to residents.

Climaco also continues the distribution of personal protective equipment to health and social workers and medical frontliners, including barangay officials to protect them from contracting the coronavirus disease, or Covid-19.

The mayor also expressed appreciation and thanked all those who donated rice and canned goods and other necessities for residents, especially the poor, to augment what the local government is giving out.

And to help residents with their supply of provision, Climaco said the local government through the City Agriculturist Office and the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, and National Food Authority launched the “Kadiwa on Wheels” or Katuwang sa Diwa at Gawa para sa Masaganang Ani at Mataas na Kita where locals can buy fresh fruits and vegetables at farm gate prices.

Climaco said the joint effort is aimed at helping to provide and make basic needs accessible to residents while the enhanced community quarantine is enforced.

The mayor also ordered late Thursday the partial lifting of the lockdown of a neighborhood in village of Tetuan where a 30-year old woman is tested positive for Covid-19 and is now hospital.
The area in Tetuan village where the lockdown is imposed. (Zamboanga Post)

Barangay Chairman Walmart Atilano said portion of the neighborhood will remain under lockdown as part of quarantine efforts to prevent the spread of the deadly respiratory disease. He said only the lockdown along Don Alfaro Street will only be limited to several blocks where the woman’s family lives.

“Mayor Beng (Climaco) has ordered the partial lifting of the lockdown and the area where the woman’s family lives will remain under lockdown. She also issued an executive order wherein all senior citizens and minors are strongly advised to stay inside the house 24/7 because they are most vulnerable to the disease,” Atilano said during the distribution of food packs to residents in the zone. (Zamboanga Post)


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