GESTURE OF SOLIDARITY: CHINA GIVES Php 3M ASSISTANCE TO THE CITY’S POST EARTHQUAKE REHAB EFFORTS

NEWS | 2020/02/09 | LKRO

GESTURE OF SOLIDARITY: CHINA GIVES Php 3M ASSISTANCE TO THE CITY’S POST EARTHQUAKE REHAB EFFORTS

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China donated Php 3, 087,142.00 cash assistance for the post-earthquake rehabilitation efforts being undertaken by the City Government.

The assistance was coursed through the Department of the Interior and Local Government to aid earthquake damaged local government units.

The turn-over of the said assistance is through a Memorandum of Agreement signed between the DILG Regional Office XII and the affected Local Government Units.

The MOA was signed on February 6, 2020 at the City Hall Mayor’s Conference Room.

“ We are very thankful to the People’s Republic of China and the DILG for the assistance. Surely this will help our affected families and communities recover from the recent earthquakes.”, City Mayor Joseph Evangelista said.

Kidapawan City is one of the recipients of the PROC cash assistance together with the Municipalities of Makilala, M’lang and Tulunan in the Province of Cotabato and three other Local Government Units in the neighboring province of Davao DeL Sur that were badly hit by the recent earthquakes.
Signing the MOA in behalf of the DILG is SOCCSKSARGEN Regional Director Josephine Cabrido – Leysa, CESO III and Mayor Evangelista for Kidapawan City.

Also signing their respective MOA’s with the DILG XII are Makilala Mayor Armando Quibod, M’lang Mayor Atty. Russel Abonado and Tulunan Mayor Reuel Limbungan. ##(CIO/LKOASAY)

Photo caption – PROC extends cash assistance to earthquake affected LGU’s: The Peoples Republic of China through the Department of Interior and Local Government donates cash assistance to aid in the recovery efforts of recent earthquake damaged Local Government Units.Signing the MOA are(from left) Tulunan Mayor Reuel Limbungan, Kidapawan City mayor Joseph Evangelista, DILG XII Regional Director Josephine Cabrido – Leysa, CESO III, M’lang Mayor Atty. Russel Abonado, and Makilala Mayor Armando Quibod.(cio photo)