Baby Jane Torion, 15, a girl who has cerebral palsy from barangay Marigondon, is all smiles after receiving her P2,000 cash gift from the Lapu-Lapu City government during yesterday’s distribution of financial aid to senior citizens and people with disabilities at the City Sports Complex. (CDN PHOTO/NORMAN MENDOZA)
THE Lapu-Lapu City government has started the distribution of cash gifts to senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
Mayor Paz Radaza has been going around some of the barangays to help distribute the P2,500 cash gifts to the elderly and P2,000 to the PWDs.
The cash was distributed to senior citizens at the Hoops Dome in barangay Gun-ob.
Tomorrow, she will be in Sta. Rosa, Olango Island for the distribution there and to attend to the turnover of a donation of a church bell.
The senior citizens cash gift distribution started last week while the distribution of cash gift for PWDs started yesterday.
For Christmas, Radaza said she would spend time with her siblings and relatives in her hometown in Daanbantayan, northern Cebu.
“I usually spend my Christmas vacation in my hometown with Aileen and my husband. It’s a sort of tradition that we meet there at Christmas time,” she said.
Her brother, Augusto Corro, is the mayor of Daanbantayan. He lives in the family compound where their ancestral house is situated.
Radaza said she would stay overnight in Daanbantayan then get back to Lapu-Lapu City to be with her other relatives and in-laws for Christmas.
Mayor Radaza said she is thankful that Oponganons can celebrate Christmas after having been spared from calamities this year.
She credited this to the intercessions of the city’s patron saint, Nuestra Señora Virhen de la Regla (Our Lady of the Rule).