4P's benefits 2T families - City Government of Ormoc

(top) After receiving their ATM Cards, beneficiaries of the 4Pswithdraw their money at Landbank’s Automated Teller Machinelocated outside the Ormoc City Superdome, where the distributionof the ATM cards was held. (leftt) A beneficiary fills up a form for herATM card requirement from Landbank personnel.4Ps Benefits from p. 1their health, nutrition and educationparticularly children aged 0-14.Its dual objectives are SocialAssistance- to provide cash grantto the poor to alleviate their needson a short term poverty alleviationand Social Development- to breakthe intergenerational poverty cyclethrough investments in humancapital.4P’s helps to fulfill thecountry’s commitment to meet theMillennium Development Goals,namely; Eradicate Extreme Povertyand Hunger, Achieve UniversalPrimary Education, Promote GenderEquality, Reduce Child Moralityand Improve Maternal Health.The beneficiaries were assessedif they are the residents of the poorestmunicipalities based on 2003 SmallArea Estimates or SAE; householdwhose economic condition isequal to or below the provincialpoverty threshold; household thathave children 0-14 years old and/or women pregnant at the time ofassessment; and household thatagree to meet conditions specifiedin the program.Last April 30 of this year, 1,873families received conditional cashgrants at Cogon Gym, this city.They received cash allotted for theperiod of 2 months. This week,almost 2,000 beneficiaries obtainedATM cards from Land Bank fromwhich beneficiaries can get theircash assistance by using their ATMcard once in every two monthsBarangay Rescue Team from p. 1the organization of BART which isinitially composed of 30 persons in18 barangays. Leading the seminarare the three major components ofthe emergency force of the localCDRRMC lead by the Rescuegroup lead by Dominic Eamiguel,the Information and Education(IAE) group lead by CiriacoTolibao Jr., and Elsie Jaca, of theHealth Emergency ManagementSystem (HEMS). The three teamsaccording to Councilor Alfarojoined together to lecture BARTmembers of their basic rules anda lecture in teaching BLS or theBasic Life Support. Accordingto Alfaro 3 years ago then CityDisaster Coordinating Councilconducted a Participatory DisasterRisk Assessments (PDRA) andasked the barangays what are thefrequent disaster that occur intheir localities. The said meetingidentified 21 barangays as mostprone to flooding that’s why thesebarangays are taught to knowthe different meanings of signalsCouncilor Alfaro pointed out.He added that the people in thebarangay knows what to do whenthis signal is aired adding thatthey also provided bells to eachbarangays for the said purpose.Alfaro disclosed that in anoccurrence of a disaster the first torespond is the rescuer and the firstaider. While the second responderwhich will follow after 24 hours arethe HEMS.City Health Officer Dr. NelitaNavales pointed out that the HMESwill monitor the safety of theoperation at the evacuation center.The HEMS headed by sentinelnurse Elsie Jaca will focus on theoperation like water sanitation,hygiene, food safety, potable water,toilet, waste disposal, vermin, andthe elimination of all crawlingcreatures for the proper health andsanitation of the center and theevacuees.“Tingali unya og ang tawomalibre sa baha, malibre sa linogpero mamatay didto sa evacuationcenter sa sakit kay unsanitary angoperation.” Alfaro stressed.4AngOrmocanonwww.ormoc.gov.ph