Antique housing project to benefit victims of ST 'Yolanda'
2024-Jul-31 12:00
GROUNDBREAKING. San Remigio Mayor Margarito Mission Jr. leads the groundbreaking of a housing project in Barangay Cabiawan, San Remigio, Antique on Tuesday (July 30, 2024). Mission said in an interview that 25 families whose houses were damaged by Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013 are recipients of the housing units. (San Remigio LGU)
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – Twenty-five families displaced in this province by Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013 are recipients of a housing project that will be built in Barangay Cabiawan of San Remigio town.
The local government broke ground for the project financed by the National Housing Authority (NHA) on Tuesday.
"After several years, San Remigio's Yolanda displaced families will finally be able to have their needed housing units," Mayor Margarito Mission, Jr., who led the groundbreaking ceremony, said
Each housing unit, costing P500,000, will have complete amenities to make recipient families comfortable. The project is up for completion in one year.
On the other hand, Mission assured assistance to persons with disability during the opening of the Early Intervention Center for Children with Disabilities and the National Disability Week celebration on Tuesday.
"Just let us know what assistance is needed and we will provide it," Mission said.
The Antique Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office, which supervises the Provincial Disability Affairs Office (PDAO), will assist the center.
It will serve as a venue for early intervention services in socialization, self-help, cognition, and communication.
The PDAO physical therapist will visit the center once or twice a month to provide therapy sessions to kids with cerebral palsy, with the assistance of the development workers trained in handling children with developmental delays or disabilities. (PNA)