The offices of Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez and Tingog party-list Reps. Yedda Marie Romualdez and Jude Acidre have facilitated the distribution of relief goods and the release of financial aid to 331 families who are victims of two fire incidents that hit separate locations in Quezon City and Mandaluyong City.
The financial aid is under the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Rex Gatchalian.
The recipients were fire victims in Barangay Addition Hills in Mandaluyong City and Barangay Bagbag in Quezon City on June 14 and 15, respectively.
“The financial aid is part of a government program given to distressed individuals. I hope this small amount from the DSWD can help ease the pain of the families who lost their homes to these fire incidents,” Romualdez said.
Financial aid of P10,000 each was given to 206 families who were displaced by the fire that razed through a residential area along Pascual Street in Barangay Bagbag in a simple payout ceremony in Remarville Basketball Court last Saturday.
The same amount of financial assistance was also given to each of the 125 families affected by the fire that gutted a residential area on F. Martinez Street, Barangay Addition.
The total amount of financial aid reached P3.31 million.