MANKAYAN, Benguet March 26 – The municipal government is currently conducting an inventory of students from the different parts of the municipality who are stranded in their boarding houses in Baguio City and Benguet so that appropriate assistance could be extended to them during this time of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine.
Mayor Frenzel Ayong tasked the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) and some personnel of the municipal government to get in touch with school administrators to get the addresses of their stranded students to account for them so that the municipality can the needed assistance.
“We call on our stranded students to get in touch with our SK officials and our assigned personnel so that we will be aware of their addresses to allow us to deliver whatever assistance made available to them during this enhanced community quarantine period,” Mayor Ayong stressed.
He pointed out that the municipal government will provide whatever assistance it can to the stranded students to prevent them from risking to travel from Baguio and Benguet to the municipality that might result to their contracting the deadly virus.
According to him, the stranded students should voluntarily inform the concerned local officials of their addresses in Baguio City and Benguet so that the SK officials and the assigned personnel can easily locate them and give them whatever available assistance to tide them over while adhering to the policy of staying at home under the enhanced community quarantine.
Ayong stated that the welfare of the stranded students is the municipal government’s primordial concern that is why SK officials and responsible personnel of the municipality are assigned to inventory the actual number so that the concerned offices can prepare sufficient supplies and whatever assistance that can be given to them the soonest to allow them to cope with the prevailing difficult situation in the country.
He urged the recipients of this assistance from the municipal government to stretch the assistance until the lifting of the quarantine and the situation normalizes.
The municipal mayor explained the inventory of the stranded students will also allow the municipal government to have a database on the number of students from the town’s 12 barangays who are enrolled in the different public and private educational institutions in Baguio and Benguet for future references and for them to be easily contracted when similar situations will prevail in the future.
He expressed optimism that the stranded students will cooperate with the ongoing conduct of the inventory so that the assistance being prepared will reach them the soonest.
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