DBP extends P8.5-billion in rehabilitation and recovery financing

09/17/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — State-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) has approved P8.5-billion in funding support for the rehabilitation efforts of both public and private institutions adversely affected by the current public health crisis, a top…

Victims’ plea: Let us rebuild our homes

Morexette Marie B. Erram 12/06/2018

RESIDENTS of Barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu City, displaced by the fire are now appealing to the city government to allow them to reconstruct their houses even if the property is owned by the University of the Philippines Cebu…

Victims may be allowed to rebuild their homes

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 11/12/2018

BARANGAY PAJO FIRE OWNERS of the 47 houses that were burned during a fire last Sunday in Barangay Pajo, Lapu-Lapu City, will be allowed to rebuild their homes. Pajo Barangay Captain Junard “Abong” Chan gave this assurance…

Greeks rebuild lives after debt crisis wrecked dreams

AFP 08/19/2018

In 2010, Panagiota Kalliakmani had just secured her chemistry degree and dreamed of going into research. Then the Greek economic crisis struck. With the cash-strapped state forced into massive spending cuts, the plug was pulled on myriad…

40 fire victims may not be allowed to rebuild homes

USJ-R Journalism Intern 08/09/2018

At least 10 families or 40 victims of last August 4’s Barangay Kamputhaw fire may not be able to return and rebuild their burnt homes. This developed after the City Hall’s Division of the Welfare of the…

Only settlers under 93-1 allowed to rebuild homes

Morexette Marie B. Erram and USJ-R Intern Zena Magto. 08/06/2018

Only families identified as beneficiaries of the 93-1 land swap deal signed last week between Cebu City Hall and the provincial government may be allowed to rebuild their homes in Purok 3, Barangay Camputhaw, Cebu City. Genevieve…

DWUP: ‘Only 93-1 beneficiaries may rebuild homes’

Morexette B. Erram 08/06/2018

Only 93-1 beneficiaries will be allowed to rebuild their homes in Barangay Kamputhaw, Cebu City. Genevieve Alcoseba, operations officer of the Cebu City Government’s Department of Welfare and the Urban Poor (DWUP), said informal settlers who lost…

Kamputhaw settlers to rebuild after reblocking

Rosalie O. Abatayo and Benjie B. Talisic 08/05/2018

ALORA Barco kept watch over her sleeping one-month-old daughter when her seven-year-old son rushed inside their house and shouted “Fire!” before 4 p.m. last Saturday. Barco, a 27-year-old mother of four, immediately took her children out of…

Fire victims told: Return to Paradise, rebuild your homes

Norman V. Mendoza 03/23/2018

Hundreds of fire victims in Barangay Pajo, who are staying at evacuation centers, are advised to return to Sitio Paradise and start to rebuild their houses there. Pajo Barangay Captain Junard Chan said that they would allow…

Calero fire victims can go back, rebuild homes

Nestle L. Semilla 02/03/2018

MOST of the 944 fire victims displaced by Thursday’s Sawang Calero fire can return and rebuild their destroyed houses in the nearly a hectare Block 4 of Sitio Kanipaan. Sawang Calero Barangay Captain Ariel Yburan told Cebu…

P10B needed to rebuild Marawi

Inquirer.net 10/19/2017

MARAWI CITY — Now that President Rodrigo Duterte has declared this city free from terrorists, the government will need P10 billion to rebuild Marawi, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said. Lorenzana, in an interview here on Monday, said…

Mandaue folk relocated

Norman V. Mendoza 10/01/2017

Instead of rebuilding their homes, about 17 households that were displaced by last Friday afternoon’s landslide in Barangay Cabancalan, Mandaue City, were transferred to a shelter at a compound owned by their employer. About 60 people packed…

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