DENR-6 donates over ₱4M worth of relief goods, PPEs

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Region 6 has donated over P4 million worth in relief operations and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in support of the frontliners against the COVID-19 pandemic

₱4,088,921.95 worth of relief goods (consisting of food packs, groceries, sanitation products, cash assistance), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (such as face shields and facemasks) were distributed by DENR-6 to its beneficiaries.

The beneficiaries are low-income households, laborers, farmers, forest rangers, bantay-dagat, Persons with Disabilties (PWD), Senior Citizens, medical frontliners of different hospitals in Western Visayas, local government unit (LGU) frontliners, checkpoint frontliners, Peoples Organization (POs) and DENR offices’ skeleton workforce who are economically challenged but continue to render their services despite the health risk brought by the pandemic.

DENR-6 regional office, its extended bureaus and field offices accumulated cash donations for the relief operation during the Enhanced Community Quarantine.

The donations were broken down as follows:

-DENR-6 regional office and DENR Multi-purpose Cooperative (DEMCO), ₱150,900;

-Environmental Management Bureau, ₱352,658;

-Mines and Geosciences Bureau, ₱2,841,636.75;

-PENRO Aklan and CENRO Boracay, ₱113,035;

-PENRO Antique, CENRO Belison and Culasi, ₱278,642.20;

-PENRO Capiz and CENRO Mambusao, ₱43,700;

-PENRO Iloilo, CENRO Guimbal, Barotac Nuevo and Sara, ₱79,000;

-PENRO Guimaras, ₱39,500;

-PENRO Negros Occidental, CENRO Bago City, Cadiz City and Kabankalan City, ₱189,850.

The relief operation was conducted simultaneously for the beneficiaries who are affected by the two-month lockdown.

The medical, checkpoint and LGUs’ frontliners from different hospitals, towns and cities in Western Visayas were given PPE, sanitation products and food packs to cope with the risk and effects of COVID-19.

The regional office’s skeleton workforces with blue-collar jobs and contractual workers who rendered their time and services during the Enhanced Community Quarantine were given of the assistance.

Facemasks were also provided to DENR personnel as a safety and preventive measures against COVID-19.

This effort is in support to the Republic Act no. 11469 or the “Bayanihan Heal as One Act” declaring a Public Health Emergency throughout the country due to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

 

“I would like to extend my utmost gratitude to the people behind these series of bayanihan act; the contributed support of DENR personnel. These relief operations had helped a lot of families here in Western Visayas in this time of pandemic. In these trying times, a small act of generosity could go a long way to ease the affliction caused by the pandemic but with self-discipline to follow the safety measures and protocols to prevent the spreading of COVID-19, we could help the whole nation contain the virus. Stay safe everyone,” DENR-6 Regional Executive Director Francisco E. Milla Jr. said. (DENR-6)