City hall provides cash to small fishers for ‘balsas’
BEFORE the holiday season ended, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez awarded cash assistance to 40 fisher folk in Barangay Calmay to enable them to buy materials for their own “balsa” (bamboo raft).
In a simple ceremony held Jan. 4 at the city museum, the mayor handed P1,500 as initial financial assistance to each recipient.
Calmay Punong Barangay Evangelita dela Cruz personally requested the financial assistance to help her constituents earn a living. The recipients are expected to assemble their own “balsas” on January 16 at the covered court of Barangay Calmay.
“They will all present their assembled “balsas” to Mayor Fernandez on January 23 at the boat terminal in front of the National Bureau of Investigation office,” said dela Cruz.
Once their “balsas” are completed, the recipients will receive another P1,500 from the city.
“We asked them to make the “balsa” by themselves, so they will a have a sense of ownership and in order to make the ‘balsa’ last longer through proper care,” said Fernandez. (Joseph C. Bacani/CIO)
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