Outstanding OFW families in CV cited

USJ-R Intern Patricia Erlaine N. Luardo 09/21/2017

With the aim to promote the success stories of overseas Filipino workers (OFW), the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in Central Visayas (Owwa-7) gave away the 2017 Model OFW of the Year Awards (MOFYA) to the families of…

City Hall: Families can rebuild homes

Benjie B. Talisic, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, USJ-R Intern Rosalie Abatayo 09/19/2017

The 104 families who were displaced by the fire that hit Sitios Sto. Niño and Missionary in Barangay Suba, Cebu City, at past 7 p.m. last Monday will be allowed to return to their respective lots. Meriam…

Relocation site in Mandaue razed by fire

Norman Mendoza 08/23/2017

  AT LEAST 86 two-storey houses were razed by fire in a relocation site in Barangay Paknaan, Mandaue City early morning on Wednesday, August 23. About 100 families were left homeless by the fire that broke out…

City Hall hands cash aid to families of fallen soldiers

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/07/2017

Her son has been dead for almost four months now, but 67-year-old Gaudencia Nazareno continues to wait for him to come home. Gaudencia would sit outside her house in Calape town, Bohol, every Saturday night to await…

Nine families displaced by fire

Norman V. Mendoza 07/31/2017

Two houses owned by one family were destroyed by fire at Sitio Sector 1 Barangay Pagsabungan, Mandaue City at past 1 pm Monday. Rosalia Berdegar, who owns the houses occupied by eight tenants, said one of them…

City Hall readies cash aid for Sirao families

USJ-R Intern Rosalie O. Abatayo 07/11/2017

FAMILIES in Barangay Sirao who lost their homes to series of landslides affecting the mountain barangay will soon be getting P20,000 cash aid from City Hall. Lea Japson, head of the Department of Social Welfare and Services…

City eyeing assistance for Sirao families affected by landslides

Inna Gian Mejia 06/28/2017

The Cebu City Division for the Welfare of the Urban Poor (DWUP) will conduct a consultative meeting tomorrow with the families affected by the landslides in the mountain barangay of Sirao. DWUP head Genevieve Alcoseba said they…

One hurt, 150 families lose homes to dawn fire

Norman V. Mendoza 06/12/2017

A woman was severely burned while 150 families were displaced by a fire that razed 50 houses in Sitio Lower Malibu A at Barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue City, at past 4 a.m. yesterday. Candida Tuston, a food vendor,…

Whirlwind destroys homes, displaces Danao families

Doris C. Bongcac, Inna Gian Mejia, Nestle L. Semillla 06/06/2017

Hundreds of families were displaced as strong winds, which they described as a “tornado”, tore through 16 houses and damaged 60 more in Barangays Suba and Taytay in Danao City at past 8 p.m. last Monday. One…

Release of P500K aid to heroes’ families nears

Inna Gian Mejia 06/05/2017

The prospects of the families of the four fallen heroes in the armed encounters last April with Abu Sayyaf bandits to each receive a P500,000 financial assistance from the Cebu City government have just gotten brighter. This…

Cortes: Protect your families

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 05/08/2017

Strengthen and protect your families amid the culture of death and moral decay. This was the appeal of Bishop Julito Cortes during the 10 a.m. Pontifical Mass in celebration of the feast of St. Joseph in Mandaue…

Families at evacuation center now allowed to go back home

Nestle L. Semilla 04/24/2017

Clarin Abu clash Hundreds of families from different barangays in Clarin town who left their homes because of the clash between Abu Sayyaf terrorists and government troopers, and took temporary shelter in schools and gyms have been…

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