HANDS-ON. Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista show to officials and representatives of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Mines and Geosciences Bureau the hardest-hit villages in the area following a series of earthquakes that jolted the city and the rest of North Cotabato province recently. The cities of Tacloban and Ormoc were the latest local government units to donate to quake victims of Kidapawan following plans to rebuild the damaged sections of the city soonest. (Photo courtesy of Kidapawan CIO)
COTABATO CITY -- A time to give back.
With that in mind, officials of two local government units in the Visayas came over to Kidapawan City to replicate what Kidapawan had done to victims of super typhoon Yolanda in the cities of Tacloban and Ormoc in 2013.
A representative of Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez handed over Tuesday to Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista PHP500,000 cash assistance for earthquake victims.
A day earlier, Mayor Richard Gomez of Ormoc also sent a PHP1-million worth of check for Kidapawan City that may be used in rebuilding the city and helping the victims.
Ormoc City Councilor Peter Rodriguez represented Gomez in extending aid to quake victims.
Both officials said they extended help to reciprocate the Kidapawan City’s response when the two cities experienced the devastation of the super typhoon calamity in 2013.
Gomez also sent one of its ambulances to Kidapawan City to be used as an augmentation emergency facility. Evangelista lauded the two local officials “for the love and sympathy.”
In 2013, Kidapawan was among the many local government units in Mindanao that sent relief goods, used clothing and generator sets for Ormoc and Tacloban as the two cities tried to rise from the effects of Yolanda’s onslaught.
Early on, the city of Muntinlupa also donated a PHP1 million check for quake victims in Kidapawan. (PNA)
