Metro

QC to donate P5M to Frank victims

July 2, 2008 | 12:00am

The Quezon City Council has approved a resolution expressing the city government’s sympathy to the provinces affected by typhoon Frank at the same time authorizing Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. to allocate P5 million as financial and humanitarian assistance to the victims.

Council Majority Leader Ariel Inton said the resolution that was certified as urgent by Belmonte was approved by the City Council Monday.

“The donation will be given to local governments directly affected by the calamities,” Inton said.

This donation is the latest assistance that the city government extended to typhoon-devastated areas across the country.

Last year P8 million was donated as financial assistance to local government units in the Bicol region devastated by a series of typhoons, the latest of which was super typhoon Reming, which killed almost 1,000 people.

During the 2006 mudflow in Southern Leyte, the city government donated a two-story concrete school building right on the spot where the school in Guinsaugon was buried by mudflow.

In January 2005 when a killer typhoon hit Central and Northern Luzon, no less than Belmonte led the relief efforts to the typhoon-devastated towns of Gabaldon and Nueva Ecija and in Dingalan town in Aurora province.

The mayor took a break from his hectic schedule to visit the flood ravaged town of Gabaldon town in Nueva Vizcaya to share the blessing of the city government by distributing relief goods to the residents affected by typhoons that hit the country.

The Quezon City mayor also visited Dingalan town in Aurora province, which was among the beneficiaries of the Quezon City government relief assistance last year.

Financial assistance was also extended to city residents who were killed during the “Wowowee” stampede at the University of Life Training and Recreation Arena (Ultra) stadium in Pasig last month.

“The city government is always ready to extend its helping hand to local government units in distress that’s part of the commitment of Mayor Belmonte,“ Inton said.