BONTOC, Mountain Province — The City government of Davao has given financial assistance to this province, one of the hard-hit provinces during the onslaught of super typhoon Lawin recently.
Davao City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office Officer in-Charge Emmanuel Jaldon, Lyndon Leovee Ancajas of the same office and Virgilio San Pedro of the Davao City Treasurer’s Office, travelled to Mountain Province to personally hand over the financial aid.
On hand to receive the check worth P350,000.00 at the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office Operation Center here were Governor Bonifacio Lacwasan Jr. and PDRRMO personnel led by PDRRM officer lawyer Edward Chumawar, Jr.
Lacwasan expressed the province’s gratitude to the city government of Davao for their concern saying their financial assistance is a great help for the province to cope with the losses and restore those damaged by super typhoon Lawin.
Mountain Province was devastated by Lawin with major roads to and from the province closed to vehicular traffic for several days due to road washouts, landslides, damaged bridges, toppled electric poles and felled trees along the roads.
The province had no electricity for almost a week due to toppled electric posts/poles of both the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines and the Mountain Province Electric Cooperative.
Aside from damage on infrastructure, the province also incurred almost a hundred million pesos worth of damage in agriculture mostly in the agricultural municipalities of Bauko and Paracelis. Lawin also left almost 700 houses partially damaged and about 30 houses totally destroyed.
Mtn. Province and four other CAR provinces are placed under a state of calamity. **By Andrew Doga-ong
