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Sabangan evacuation center inaugurated

SABANGAN, Mountain Province(PIA) -- The province through the help of the national government continues to build safe spaces for the community especially during government continues to build safe spaces for the community especially during disasters.

Officials of Mountain Province  and the municipality of Sabangan together with  Cordillera Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council Chairperson   and Office of Civil Defense-Cordillera (OCD-CAR)  Regional Director Albert Mogol and   Department of Social Welfare and Development-CAR   Regional Director Leo Quintilla  led the inauguration and blessing of the newly constructed Sabangan Evacuation Center located at Ambango in barangay Data on October 17, 2023.

DSWD-CAR Regional Director and OCD -CAR RD ALbert Mogol with COngressman Maximo Dalog Jr lead the inauguration of the Sabangan Evacuation Cented on October 17, 2023.

The Sabangan Evacuation Center is funded by the OCD  in the amount of 43,777,958.16 , and constructed in a lot donated by Mr. Douglas Paticawen, a private citizen.

 

The evacuation center has a total  area of 1,430 square meters. It features sleeping, eating, and washing areas, and equipped with lighting, other electrical installations and generator, water supply and sanitation facilities , all in accordance with the  Department of Public Works and Highways  standard plan,  DSWD– Mountain Province Assistant District Engineer Esther C. Taynec said.

Quintilla   his message  highlighted  the importance of an evacuation center especially in times of calamities or disaste, and stressed on the importance of camp management training for effective maintenance of the center.


Mogol congratulated the officials and people of Sabangan for accepting and completing the project, which is in in line with
the goal of OCD to provide all municipalities with their own evacuation centers. He praised lot donor Paticawen and all the officials and the community for their unity in this undertaking.


Sabangan is the fifth  out of the ten municipalities of the Mountain Province to have its own evacuation center. The others are Bauko, Bontoc, Paracelis, and Tadian.

Mayor Marcial Lawilao conveyed his heartfelt appreciation to OCD-CAR for   in funding the evacuation center. He also thanked DSWD-CAR for their consistent assistance to the municipality even beyond times of calamity. He urged all I- Sabangans to collaborate in maintaining the evacuation center.


Paticawen, meanwhile, stressed that when it comes to development and progress, one should not be selfish so that the different programs of the government will come to the community.


Also present during the inauguration and shared their message of support. are Congressman Maximo Y. Dalog Jr., and June Pinayakan representing Governor Bonifacio C. Lacwasan, Jr. (JDP/VJLT-PIA CAR, Mt. Province)

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