MANKAYAN, Benguet – The municipal government continues to provide the financial assistance to more students from the municipality who are stranded in the capital town of La Trinidad and Baguio City to compel them to stay where they are situated until such time that the extended Luzonwide enhanced community quarantine shall have been lifted.
Mayor Frenzel A. Ayong said assigned personnel of the municipal government had been going around La Trinidad and Baguio over the past several days to personally hand to the stranded students their financial assistance for their daily subsistence during the duration of the enhanced community quarantine.
He claimed funds for the staid financial assistance was drawn from available municipal funds to convince those stranded to stay in their accommodation areas in Baguio and La Trinidad and not to take the risk of going home to their barangays in the municipality ensure no carriers of the virus enter in the locality.
“We are grateful to our younger brothers and sisters for heeding our call for them to just stay where they have been stranded and await the delivery of the financial aid earmarked for them. We also thank our personnel for exerting extra effort in locating the whereabouts of our stranded students despite the risk involved in their going to different places which only shows their dedication and sincerity to render service to our stranded townmates,” Mayor Ayong stressed.
Last week, the municipal government distributed the financial assistance to some 200 stranded students from the municipality temporarily residing in the different barangays in La Trinidad and Baguio as part of the municipal government’s effort to reach out to those who failed to avail of the earlier transport services that ferried others to their barangays.
Mayor Ayong called on the recipients of the financial assistance to be wise in spending their limited budget which covers up to end of the month.
According to him, the municipal government will look into other resources that could be realigned for assistance to the vulnerable and marginalized sectors of the municipality to allow them to cope with the prevailing crisis.
With the improving situation in the capital town of La Trinidad, the municipal government is studying its options on how to bring home students in groups while adhering to the strict policy on physical distancing so they can rejoin their families as classes are being proposed to be cancelled up to the end of May, thus, the stranded students want to go back and wait out at home any development on classes for the remainder of the semester and the schoolyear.
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