In fact, Mrs. Arroyo told the OIC envoys, led by Saudi Arabian Ambassador Saleh Muhammad al-Ghamdi, that her government is spending P80 million this month alone for the rehabilitation efforts.
The President said she has released P40 million from her Social Fund for the projects which the Inter-Agency Committee for Mindanao, chaired by Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Eduardo Ermita, is undertaking.
Mrs. Arroyo said she has directed the National Disaster Coordinating Council to raise the remaining P40 million as counterpart fund.
She said the funds will be used to repair and rehabilitate houses, mosques and school buildings in Central Mindanao and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao which were destroyed during the all-out offensive of the former Estrada government against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Meanwhile, leaders of tribal communities in Mindanao lamented the government’s lack of attention to their plight, during a five-day forum at Samal Island in Davao.
The government addresses the concerns of Moro separatist rebels but not of lumads, Ramon Moambing, an executive of the Lumad Development Center, said.  Marichu Villanueva, Edith Regalado