More flood victims in Dumaguete City will soon have brand new homes with the blessing and turnover of 16 more units at 3:30 p.m. on August 17, , at the Caritas Village Shelter Project in Barangay Bajumpandan.

Fr. Burton Villarmente, director of the Social Action Center of the Diocese of Dumaguete, who oversees the project, said that Palo, Leyte Archbishop John Du, the former bishop of Dumaguete, will be present.

Du had started the project before he left for Leyte last May.

The houses will bring to 28 the number so far donated to victims of tropical storm “Sendong” in Dumaguete in the program jointly undertaken by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines-National Secretariat for Social Action, the Diocese of Dumaguete SSA, and the city government.

A few weeks ago, 12 units were given to homeless families.

Villarmente said the CBCP-NASSA commended the shelter project in Dumaguete compared to similar projects in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan where hitches were encountered in their implementation.

The housing design at Bajumpandan is being copied for the two cities in Mindanao, he added.

He also said it is necessary to immediately present the units to beneficiaries, especially with the rainy and typhoon season prevailing in the country.

The project aims to construct 150 houses, with 58 in Bajumpandan, and 92 in another lot to be identified and donated by the Dumaguete government.*JFP

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