The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) organized holiday activities for evacuees from Mount Kanlaon in Western and Central Visayas, providing food, gifts, and games.
DSWD Western Visayas field office personnel, in partnership with the Philippine Red Cross, engage children seeking refuge at the La Castellana Municipal Evacuation Center in Negros Occidental in fun games and other activities during the Christmas holidays amid the ongoing unrest of Mount Kanlaon .
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) coordinated with concerned local government units (LGUs) in bringing the spirit of Christmas to Mount Kanlaon evacuees through simultaneous holiday-special activities in evacuation centers across Western and Central Visayas. DSWD Assistant Secretary for Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) Irene Dumlao said food distribution, gift-giving, fun-filled games, among other interactive activities for all ages, were held for the evacuees on December 24 and 25. “We worked together to pool our resources to organize these activities, so that we can bring in the spirit of Christmas to our Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) despite the challenging times,” Dumlao, who is also the DSWD’s spokesperson, said in a statement Thursday. During the holidays, personnel of DSWD Field Offices (FO) 6 – Western Visayas and 7 – Eastern Visayas remained on duty to facilitate unhampered resource augmentation to LGUs and well-coordinated aid for IDPs, according to the DRMG official. “This has been the protocol since Kanlaon erupted and raised its volcanic status to Alert Level 3. We make sure that even on weekends or holidays, our disaster response teams are on full-alert to swiftly address the needs of affected families and individuals,” Dumlao said. The DSWD has already provided humanitarian assistance worth over P52 million to families affected by the volcanic activities of M
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