The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process
(OPAPP) and provincial government have provided health insurance and livelihood
assistance to a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) community in this
province.
The beneficiaries of the assistance is the MNLF community in
the “hard-to-reach” Barangay Panganuran, Sibuco municipality.
The town is within the third congressional district of this
province.
Howard Cafugauan, OPAPP assistant secretary for programs,
personally handed over the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth)
cards to 64 MNLF members.
Cafugauan also turned over farm animals that included 15
heads of goats and eight heads of cows to boost the livelihood of the
Panganuran Farmers’ Association.
The association is headed by Hadji Asbirin Kahaluddin, the
MNLF state chairman of this province.
Cafugauan told the Philippines News Agency that the
distribution of health insurance and livelihood assistance are part of OPAPP’s
program through the PAyapa at MAsaganang PamayaNAn (PAMANA) program.
The provincial government also turned over livestock to the
farmers’ association 10 heads of goats and four heads of cows.
Eng’r. Dioscoro Endad, provincial executive assistant IV,
said that assorted vegetable seeds were also given to the association aside
from livestock.
“The given livestock signified the sincerity of Gov. Roberto
Uy to help alleviate the plight to our Muslim brothers,” Endad said.
Last month, 10 heads of high-breed goats were given to the
group of Asbirin as promised by Uy to help them in their livelihood.
OPAPP has identified the barangay of Panganuran in Sibuco
town as among the conflict-affected communities in the Triple “SB” areas.
Aside from Sibuco, the towns of Sirawai, Siocon, and Baliguian
comprise the Triple SB areas.
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