TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Rep. Allen Jesse C. Mangaoang said that his office will continue to extend any available assistance to residents of the province who had been heavily impacted by the implementation of the extended Luzonwide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to allow them to slowly recover.
Mangaoang, who chairs the House Committee on national cultural minorities and indigenous peoples, said that before and even during the ECQ implementation, substantial assistance had been infused by concerned government agencies, city governments, private individuals, his office, among others, as relief assistance to the residents in the and that the same has continued over the past several weeks.
However, the lawmaker claimed that the provision of assistance will not stop with the downgrading of the ECQ to general community quarantine (GCQ) because of limited movements of people and operation of businesses, unlike in the past where there has been enormous economic activities that have provided people with livelihood.
“We silently extended assistance to the people of the province because we do not want that our providing assistance to people who are in need, as charitable efforts, need not to be highlighted but such assistance must be given to those who really need the help during these trying times,” Rep. Mangaoang stressed.
Aside from providing the assistance to the different frontliners and the residents of the province, he disclosed that his office also supported hundreds of stranded students, workers and other individuals from the province who have been affected by the ECQ in the different parts of the country through various means, such as door-to-door, money remittance, among others.
Mangaoang added that even beyond the ECQ and GCQ, there will still be a number of residents needing assistance thus his office will continue rendering services round-the-clock to make sure that people from Kalinga will receive what is due them for them to slowly go back to a new normal which will likely happen until such time that a vaccine will be developed to control the rapid spread of the deadly virus.
According to him, his office will continue to coordinate with government agencies and local governments, apart from concerned individuals and groups, to ensure that any support that could be accessed will be received by the beneficiaries, especially that there had been a large number of the population whose sources of livelihood had been affected by the ECQ implementation that virtually resulted to the stoppage of major economic activities in the country.
Mangaoang called on the people of the province wanting to be provided with whatever assistance not to hesitate to seek the support of his office so that best efforts will be exerted to address their concerns to allow them to hurdle the prevailing challenges of the ECQ and GCQ.
By HENT