Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program beneficiaries in Ubay. Bohol, spared five pesos from their conditional cash transfer grants to be given to Negros earthquake victims.
Department of Social Welfare & Development region 7 information officer Aileen Lariba said Ubayanons donated around P30,000 and some assorted used clothing hoping to ease the suffering of their neighbors in Negros Oriental.
It can be recalled that a 6.9 magnitude earthquake affected Pantawid Pamilya beneficiary communities in Negros Oriental.
As people started to rebuild their lives, Joel Otero, a beneficiary from barangay San Pascual, Ubay said he certainly feels the pain of all Negros’ poor who have to crawl their way out of poverty.
Otero, along with other beneficiaries in town said they are still poor but they will give money for Negros, even if that would deprive them of a few pesos.
The Negrenses Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries have been our models, they admitted.
According to Lariba, Ubayanons were all inspired by the Negrense examples when implementing the said program.
“We understand their pains and we want to help,” said Lucresia Cadorniga of Barangay Benaliw, Ubay Bohol.
Otero, Cadorniga and the rest of the beneficiaries started dropping P5 in a plastic bag passed around to help their fellow beneficiaries in Negros Oriental as their way of saying “All is not lost”.
P5 is a small amount but if all of us are united in giving, we know it would go a long way in alleviating a mother or a family’s need, Ubay 4P beneficiaries said.
At the latest pay-out of cash grants for Ubay, Bohol, the P5 and some used clothing for children of affected families came and everyone was certain that the P5 would be a seed of hope to grow in the hearts of the Negrense victims.
