The Bacolod Cares project of the city government has raised P1.388 million as of yesterday, which include the P1.2 million allocation from the city’s Disaster Risk Reduction Management fund, Bacolod Councilor Em Legaspi-Ang said yesterday.
Ang, chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Social Services, yesterday said there is already a big volume of non-cash donations such as water, rice, clothes, blankets, among others, and the biggest donation was from the Fa Tzang Temple that gave 250 boxes of mineral water, 35 sacks of rice, and 1,200 pairs of slippers. She said they will ship the donated goods through Negros Navigation. Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson said that during the executive-legislative caucus Wednesday, they decided that out of the P1.2 million budget, the city will give P500,000 to Iligan, P500,000 to Cagayan de Oro and P200,000 to Dumaguete. Ang said they would like to thank all those who responded to their appeal for contributions. The social workers of the city will continue to accept donations at the city’s collection desks at the government center and City Hall, she said. “I hope, somehow, through this, the typhoon victims will be able to feel the spirit of Christmas inspite of this adversity,” Ang said. Meanwhile, a resolution requesting Mayor Evelio Leonardia to lead various religious denominations in a thanksgiving activity to express gratitude to the Almighty for sparing the City of Bacolod from calamity was approved by the SP Wednesday. Authored by Councilor El Cid Familiaran, the resolution said the previous and recent calamities that had struck the country had damaged government critical infrastructure projects, agricultural and fisheries production and resulted in loss of livelihood, many lives and wastage of billions of pesos. The SP also approved another resolution expressing profound sympathy to the people of Cagayan de Oro City, Iligan City, Negros Oriental and other cities and provinces who suffered as a consequence of the disaster brought by tropical storm Sendong on December 17, 2011. The resolution authored by Ang said Tropical Storm Sendong ravaged Mindanao, slamming it with devastating rains and unleashing flash floods and landslides that have left a horrifying trail of destruction. Media reports said the death toll has reached 653 (1,026, as of Wednesday – ED), there are 245 injured and 807 reported missing. The cities of Cagayan de Oro with 346 deaths and Iligan with 206 deaths were worst hit by Sendong on Friday and Saturday, it said. The national and local government officials of the affected local government units are appealing for immediate cash assistance, food, non-food items, services and prayers for the residents in the cities and provinces affected by Typhoon Sendong, the resolution also said.*CGS CHRYSEE SAMILLANO Visayan Daily Star
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