Bauko, Mountain Province – The municipal government partnerd with the Master Del Pe Foundation, a staunch advocate of heathly living locally and abroad, for the rehabilitation of the hundreds of drug surrenderers in the locality for them to be integrated in mainstream society and become productive citizens.
Mayor Abraham B. Akilit said it was agreed that the initiative of both the local government and its partner organization be entitled Clean Life Project to help the drug surrenderers to embrace healthy living.
The Clean Life Project is a joint effort by the BELife USA through its President Master Del Pe and the municipal government of Bauko represented by Mayor Akilit for the rehabilitation needs of illegal drug users and drug pushers who have surrendered to the government. The project also aims to aid in the transformation of the surrenderees to live a productive life.
Specifically, Clean Life aims to help the surrenderers shy away from the life-threatening vice of using illegal drugs and eliminate its side effects, fight the withdrawal symptoms and heal relapse, equip them with stronger will power, mental focus and discipline, develop proper attitude and character with the hope that they will acquire life survival skills.
The Bauko Municipal Police Station lead by Senior Inspector Luis C. Dangatan is mobilizing the surenderers while the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office is organizing and facilitating the lecture series of the 3-month training and rehabilitation period.
The BELife founder Master Del Pe with his staff are taking charge of the training and lesson inputs for the successful conduct of the rehabilitation process.
Mayor Akilit underscored the importance of tapping the services of well-trained experts in managing the rehabilitation of the drug surrenderees so that they will be able to fully recover and internalize the acquisition of skills that will help them earn a sustainable living and income for their respective families once they will be given a clean bill of health by those in charge of their rehabilitation.
He said the local government is not closing its doors to other interested private organizations wanting to help in the rehabilitation of the drug surrenderees from the different barangays of the municipality because there is an increasing number of drug surrenderees submitting themselves to the authorities for fear of their life following the unrelenting and uncompromising anti-drug campaign of the present administration.
He appealed to the other drug pushers and users who have not yet given themselves up to the government to do so the soonest because the government has the necessary interventions in trying to rehabilitate them so that they will become productive citizens of the locality in the future.
By HENT
