Companies, officials give aid to residents

CEBU, Philippines — Cebu Sixth district residents continue to get aid from their officials and private companies.

Cebu Sixth District Provincial Board Members Thadeo “Jonkie” Ouano and Glenn Soco have just completed the distribution of sacks of imported rice and other relief goods to different barangays in Mandaue City, Consolacon and Cordova.

Ouano and Soco personally supervised the distribution and advised the barangay officials, so the goods will really reach the intended beneficiaries.

Ouano said they allocated P5 million from their legislative assistance fund, wherein P4 million will be spent for the purchase of rice, while P1 million will be used to buy alcohol, noodles, and canned goods.

In addition to rice and canned goods, Cebu Sixth District Representative Emmarie “Lolypop” Ouano Dizon, together with her younger brother, PB Ouano, has facilitated the distribution of 2,000 fresh chicken meat to the same barangays last May 22 and 23.

In the municipality of Cordova, Mayor Teche Sitoy-Cho, in partnership with IMPACT, Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), ECONNEXT, Sunpride and IPI, distributed relief goods to the 500 families in Gilutungan Island last Saturday.

The municipality, in their Facebook page, said that around 500 families received a food basket comprised of vegetables, rice, soap from IPI and canned goods from Sunpride. Also, around 120 mothers were given milk, while their children were given vitamins.

Mayor Sitoy-Cho, together with IMPACT President Evelyn Nacario Castro, her husband Manny, Karen Pañares- Gatus and her husband Joey, Maricel Wong and Roland Salazar of Sunpride, Maria Celeste Wong of IPI, led the distribution.

Castro said that prior to their relief goods distribution in Cordova, they have completed the distribution to close to 7,000 families in 32 barangays in the cities of Cebu, Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu and Talisay.

In Lapu-Lapu City, spa therapists in the barangays of Maribago, Agus, Buaya and Mactan also received relief goods from the city’s Tourism, Cultural and Heritage Affairs Commission and Waterfront Airport Hotel and Casino, as these workers were not able to work yet as tourist-related businesses remained closed.

Members of the Lapu-Lapu Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce also donated personal protective equipment (PPE) and thousands of facemasks to Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan last week. GAN (FREEMAN)