‘Balay Silangan’ opens in Jamindan town

By Alex A. Lumaque

 

ROXAS CITY, Capiz – A reformation center for illegal drugs offenders dubbed “Balay Silangan” was inaugurated and blessed on Dec. 7, 2020 in Jamindan town.

The center at the new municipal building is the second in the province of Capiz and the 21^st  in Western Visayas.

“This is a realization of our desire to put up such facility to help in the reformation of drug offenders to become productive members of the community again,” said Jamindan mayor Mac Artur Valdemar.

The activity was also graced by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-6 director Edgar Apalla and members of the Municipal Anti-Drug Abuse Council (MADAC), among others.

“Last month, the 30 barangays in the municipality were also drug-cleared,” Valdemar noted.

“Balay Silangan” is a national drug reformation program which offers temporary refuge to drug surrenderers for reformation towards a self-sufficient, law-abiding and renewed members of society.

General interventions like physical activities, counseling, moral recovery, values formation, personal and life skills, among others, are provided at the center as mandated under the program.

The first drug offenders’ reformation center in the province was put up in Tapaz early in 2019. (PIA)