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Concrete wharf to be constructed in Cuyo, Palawan
- Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=863531
- Saturday, March 5, 2016
- (PNA), JBP/CARF/ATB/PJN
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, March 5 (PNA) -- The long wait for residents for sea access to wherever they want to go will soon be over as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to construct a small concrete wharf in Barangay Funda, Cuyo, Palawan.
Mary Rose Desalon, area coordinator of DSWD, said the construction of the wharf will be through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS), a poverty alleviation program of the national government.
Specifically, the funding will be from the KALAHI-CIDSS’ National Community-Driven Development Project (NCDPP) supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that is helping the Philippines “restore basic social services and rebuild communities devastated by super typhoon Yolanda.
NCDPP helps “build the capacity of communities to identify, prioritize, budget, and implement needed projects.”
Desalon said that for the Funda concrete wharf, PHP900,000 has been set aside. Construction will end in April 2016.
“The barangay cannot afford to construct even just a small wharf, and our problem is that the ones we can build are always easily destroyed by typhoons,” said Funda Barangay Chairman Benjamin Hermoso.
Funda is one of the island barangays of the oldest town in Palawan, the municipality of Cuyo.
Cuyo is a fourth class municipality in the province of Palawan. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 21,847 people. Its territory includes the western half of Cuyo Island, as well as Bisucay, Caponayan, Cauayan, Imalaguan, Lubid, Manamoc, Pamalican, Pandan, Round, and Quiminatin islands, all part of the Cuyo Archipelago.
Cuyo is the oldest town in Palawan which has a culture of its own and was preserved for more than 350 years. During the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, Cuyo became the second capital of Palawan from 1873 to 1903.
From the sea, Cuyo Island's first visible landmark is a lighthouse by the pier. Many of the streets leading to the town have already been cemented but the town has preserved the Hispanic plaza-Iglesia structures.
Dominating the town center is Cuyo's 1860 church, convent, and fort built by the Spanish and finished in 1680.