Metamorphosis_Kalahi-CIDSS Compendium 2015
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Long wait is over<br />
In 2014, however, their longtime ordeal finally ended when their village became a beneficiary<br />
of the KapitBisig-Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social<br />
Services (<strong>Kalahi</strong>-<strong>CIDSS</strong>) which is being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare<br />
and Development (DSWD).<br />
<strong>Kalahi</strong>-<strong>CIDSS</strong> is a poverty alleviation program that provides citizens the opportunity to<br />
identify and implement community projects that would address their basic needs. In most<br />
cases, the chosen projects come in the form of small-scale infrastructures such as school<br />
buildings, day care centers, health stations, pathways, farm-to-market roads, and irrigation<br />
systems, among others.<br />
The village received a funding support amounting to P1, 266, 166.74 from Millennium<br />
Challenge Corporation (MCC) through KALAHI-<strong>CIDSS</strong> and P243, 115.72 from the<br />
Municipal Local Government Unit of La Paz totaling to P1, 509, 282.46 for the concreting<br />
of the road from Sitio Salindeg to Malabbaga Elemtary School.<br />
Of children and education.<br />
While a concreted<br />
road means faster<br />
transportation, for<br />
school children it<br />
gives them safe and<br />
comfortable access to<br />
education. This is true in<br />
the case of Malabbaga<br />
pupils wherein the<br />
concreting of the road in<br />
their community allowed<br />
them to wear shoes and<br />
enjoy being children.<br />
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