WATER FACILITY. The inauguration of the Community-Managed Potable Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene project in Kapitan Ramon in Silay City, Negros Occidental province on March 30, 2023. As of Tuesday (April 11), 58 members of the agrarian reform beneficiary organizations and their families, as well as 403 students, are benefiting from the project. (Photo courtesy of DAR-Negros Occidental I)
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has provided two units of water sanitation facilities to around 461 farmers and students in the village of Kapitan Ramon in Silay City, Negros Occidental province.
As of Tuesday, the Violeta Integrated Farmers Association (VIFA) and Violeta Integrated School (VIS) are the latest beneficiaries of the Community-Managed Potable Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene (CPWASH) project implemented by the DAR-Negros Occidental I, which covers the northern part of the province.
With a project cost of PHP118,000, the facilities are benefiting 58 members of the agrarian reform beneficiary organization (ARBO) and their families as well as 403 students of VIS.
In a statement, provincial agrarian reform program officer II Teresita Mabunay, who led the turn-over rites on March 30, said DAR not only focuses on providing farmer-beneficiaries with the land they could till, but also ensures their health and welfare.
“We initiated the CPWASH project to provide you with clean drinking water at a low-cost form of technology,” she said.
OIC-chief Agrarian Reform Program Office Aisha May Ardiente said the technology training and materials worth PHP88,000 were provided by the DAR while the remaining PHP30,000 for the labor cost was shouldered by the city government as equity.
VIFA chairperson Armando Desoyo Sr. said he is grateful that DAR-Negros Occidental I granted their request for accessible and clean water supply.
“We are already secure that we are drinking clean and safe potable water,” he added.
Through the CPWASH, VIS principal Ma. Isabel Javier said their school has reached the three-star status in the implementation of the WASH in Schools or WinS program of the Department of Education. (PNA)
