DSWD turns over 150 shelter units to Rosales typhoon victims
ROSALES—The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Region 1 turned over on Tuesday, 150 units of Core Shelter Assistance Project (CSAP) in Barangay San Pedro West here to the typhoon victims.
DSWD Regional Director Marcelo Nicomedes Castillo said the agency funded the P70,000 per unit for a 20 square-meter core shelter while the local government provided the four-hectare lot.
An additional 170 units will be constructed and P1,800. will be provided by DSWD to each of the recipient families representing ‘cash for work’ for the construction of the houses will be provided by the DSWD.
He said P22 million has been allotted for the 170 units. The 150 units cost DSWD P20.5 million.
Rosales Mayor Susan Casareno said the four-hectare lot for the CSAP location here is owned by the local government and Abono partylist Rep. Conrado Estrella III.
Teresa Aries, one of the beneficiaries, became emotional when she acknowledged that the house realized for her a poor family’s dream to own a house.
DSWD Assistant Secretary Hope Hervilla represented Secretary Judy Taguiwalo during the blessing, inauguration and turnover rites of the CSAP and Day Care Centers. (Tita Roces)
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