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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''LGU-SoLeyte provides cash assistance to 777 distressed persons'''
'''2012 funds for R8 for release this month -- DPWH'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=72861
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r08&id=73060
*Tuesday, January 17, 2012
*Wednesday, January 18, 2012
:by  ES Gorne
:by  Bong Pedalino




MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte (PIA) -- A total of 777 distressed persons availed of the Assistance for Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS) of the local government of Southern Leyte; this is designed to provide relief to needy individuals and their families particularly in times of crises.
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Jan. 18 (PIA) -- At the beginning of this year, the District Engineering Office of Southern Leyte will get its entire 2012 funding, the first time it will happen, because in previous years, funding would be released after six months.
Together with the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of the Southern Leyte Congressional District and the PAGCOR, the assistance for individuals in crisis situations totaled P 1.294 million, Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) Social Welfare assistant Amelia Malazarte reported to PIA.
This is a nationwide strategy designed to pump-prime the economy as money will circulate nationwide with the implementation of various public works projects, Carlos Veloso, district engineer, said during a press conference.
Malazarte said the provincial government gave P 956,800; PDAF P 290,500; and PAGCOR P 47,300 for its social services last year.
Last year, critics assailed DPWH for not releasing enough infra funds that could have stimulated the economy.
She added that said cash assistance are intended for the purchase of medicines, burial assistance, educational assistance, transportation needs, emergency food, laboratory examinations, CT scan, confirmatory test, vitamins, heart examinations, among other needs.
This year, DPWH will reverse that picture by releasing funds early, right on the first month of the year, Veloso explained.
Meanwhile a relief augmentation in the amount of P720,000 was released to at least 1,000 families in the municipalities of Hinundayan, Sogod, St. Bernard, and Bontoc who were evacuated in early 2011 due to flooding.
He said that a total of P 145,432,000 is due for release anytime this month for the Southern Leyte Engineering District's (SLED), specific infra projects.
The assistance came in the form of rice, canned goods, and mineral waters, she added. (PIA SoLeyte/esg)
The amount is for five projects, four of which had already been bid out, like the widening of the national road Tomas Oppus street in Maasin City for P 5.456 million, San Ricardo-Bil-atan road for P 5 million, and improvements along Daang Mahalika road for P 10,976,000.
Slated to be bid next month will be the completion of Subang Daku bridge in Sogod for P124,000,000.
Should there be any excess amount, it would be used to improve three old bridges in barangays Combado and Tunga-tunga in Maasin City, and one in San Roque, Macrohon. (PIA-Southern Leyte/bong)
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==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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