TACLOBAN CITY, March 18 (PNA) -- Hundreds of families living in
bunkhouses will be transferred to their new homes, but they are not certain of
what the future holds.
About 268 families or 1,466 individuals from Kalipayan bunkhouses will
be relocated soon to Ridgeview Park, one of the housing sites in the northern
part of the city.
Ritchie Cablao, internally displaced persons (IDP) leader of Kalipayan
bunkhouse said that families who will be transferred, will start paying PHP200
monthly for the house and lot after five years.
Jessa (not her real name as she requested for anonymity), a young
mother, has been widowed for two months. She is left alone to support her five
children.
She is appealing to the government to provide livelihood opportunities
for a single mother like her.
She has a 10-month old baby, who is always sick because of the pollution
at the bunkhouse. Another kid has been suffering goiter. The other three
children are studying.
Jessa is one of the many who are concerned of their livelihood in
relocation sites.
The Kalipayan temporary shelter houses almost 300 families from 25
different villages, whose houses were washed out by super typhoon Yolanda.
JMC/SQM/LIZBETH ANN A. ABELLA/EGR
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