The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in partnership with the International Office for Migration (IOM) and Army Engineering Brigade will start the construction of bunkhouses at the Mayor Joaquin F. Enriquez, Jr. Memorial Sports Complex in this city.
The sports complex located in Barangay San Jose-Cawa-Cawa, west of this city, is the biggest among the evacuation centers and houses the largest number of families displaced by last month’s standoff.
DSWD Regional Director Zenaida Arevalo said that a total 21 bunkhouses will be constructed at the sports complex.
Arevalo said the bunkhouses can provide temporary shelters to at least 400 families. Each room of the structure could accommodate 10 to 15 persons.
Arevalo said that evacuees “who already have no more place to stay” will be given priority or will be the first ones to be accommodated at the bunkhouses.
She said they will be spending at least P10 million for the construction of the bunkhouses at the sports complex since each unit costs P516,000.
She disclosed that there are still 2,000 families housed at the sports complex, mostly from the adjoining barangays of Sta. Catalina, Sta. Barbara, Rio Hondo and Mariki.
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