The provincial government here recently inaugurated the P1.7 million half-way house for rebel returnees funded by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP).
The facility was designed to provide enabling services for “total rehabilitation and development of former rebels,” Governor Corazon Malanyaon said.
The half-way house is located in Sitio Magay at the compound of the Provincial Agriculture in Barangay Don Martin Marundan,
Aside from providing temporary shelter for rebel returnees, the facility is packed with other services such as counseling,. psychological and psychiatric services, spiritual enrichment services, educational, health and employment services.
It will also provide livelihood assistance and will conduct sports development and therapy sessions and workshops.
“Beyond the facility, the half-way house will facilitate the development of a site which will serve as incubation area of rebel returnees for livelihood projects and related skills,” Malanyaon said.
To meet this objective, Malanyaon saw the importance of convergence of agency programs such as crop production, livestock-raising, fish culture of the provincial agriculture office and the Department of Agriculture (DA), skills development of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA);techno-transfer and value adding of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), entrepreneurship of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI); and other related services of the departments of agrarian reform, and of labor and employment among other agencies of the government.
Once these government services are pooled together to serve rebel returnees, Malanyaon envisioned the half-way house to “provide an environment for total healing and preparation of rebel returnees for complete integration in mainstream society.”
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