Sunday, December 6, 2020

Peace housing project due for completion this Christmas

From the Philippine Information Agency (Dec 6, 2020): Peace housing project due for completion this Christmas (By Jeanevive Duron Abangan)


Peace Housing Project in Talaingod

DAVAO DEL NORTE (PIA) - With hands of the police and the soldiers working at it, the Peace Housing Project in Sitio Tibucag in Barangay Dagohoy in Talaingod is due for completion this Christmas month of December.

Davao del Norte Provincial Governor Edwin I. Jubahib told the Philippine Information Agency that regional and police forces of the Philippine National Police and troopers of the 56th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine have been deployed to fast track the construction of some 120 housing units prioritized for those who have come back from Haran.

Jubahib expected Secretary Carlito Galvez of the Office of the Presidential Assistant on the Peace Process (OPAPP) to come back and inaugurate the project. Galvez was first flown to the hinterlands of Sitio Tibucag in September to attend the ground-breaking ceremony of the project.

As the funding source, OPAPP calls such project as Peace Housing Project but Jubahib calls it “Kaagapay sa bagong panimala para sa kahapsay ug kalinaw. (Support to Building of New Homes for Peace and Development)."

“Padayon nga nagbayanihan ang atong mga kasundaluhan ug kapulisan ug nakita nato ang diwa sa pagtinabangay,” he said referring to united efforts of the provincial and municipal governments with the police and the military to complete the project.

Police Col. Ranie Hachuela of Davao del Norte Provincial Police Office (DNPPO) runs the management of police personnel from various provinces deployed for the housing construction in sitio Tibucag, Jubahib said.

Jubahib is also expecting the housing project completion in Sitio Mondol (Barangay Gupitan in the Municipality of Kapalong) where the Tapayanon community is due to transfer from the foot of Pantaron Range at the borders of the provinces of Davao del Norte, Agusan del Sur and Bukidnon.

The Provincial Engineering Office of Davao del Norte and the Municipal Engineering Office of Talaingod have also been sent to meet due schedules to open up the housing projects.

Jubahid noted that for so long a time, indigenous peoples especially in far-flung hinterland communities have been sleeping on tree barks and on tree branches but he said they will soon be sleeping on marine plywood with metaplas roofings

“Grabe ang ilang kalipay. (They are overjoyed),” he said while also noting the positive impact of housing projects in IP communities to the campaign of the national government to end the local communist armed conflict (ELCAC). (PIA XI/ Jeanevive Duron Abangan)

https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1060952

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