ILOILO CITY (PIA) -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Western Visayas has already submitted a proposal for financial assistance for families who will be affected by the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the city and province of Iloilo.

DSWD 6 Regional Information Officer May Castillo, in a recent interview over the PIA Kapihan Regionwide program of the Philippine Information Agency 6, said the proposal was submitted on July 16 and they are now awaiting for the response from the national government.

In case the proposal will be approved, Castillo said they will implement the augmentation support, in partnership with the concerned local government units as DSWD, being a national government agency, only provides technical assistance to augmentation providers such as the LGUs.

Around 6,000 family food packs were released to the Iloilo City government on July 17.

According to Castillo, the Iloilo provincial government has already met with representatives from DSWD 6 regarding their request for augmentation support.

The FPPs from the Visayas Disaster Response Center contain six kilos of rice, five sachets of coffee, five sachets of cereal, four cans of corned beef, four cans of tuna flakes and two cans of sardines.

Castillo assured affected Ilonggos that the DSWD is trying its best to respond to their needed aid during the ECQ and reminded them to continue to observe health protocols and get vaccinated to reduce risk of getting infected with the virus. (JBG/laf/PIA6-Iloilo)