BAGUIO CITY – The Philippine Mine Safety and Environment Association (PMSEA) recently mobilized its Pusong Minero program to extend assistance to the people in the areas in Mindanao that were heavily ravaged by the wrath of Tropical Storm Paeng pursuant to the practice of responsible mining and compassion for calamity-stricken communities.
PMSEA president Louie Sarmiento disclosed that the group’s Pusong Minero team headed by Weng Torrejos is now in the Ligwasn Mars in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to distribute relief goods to the thousands of affected families.
Further, he added that appropriate coordination is also being done by the Apex Cares program to identify the areas that need potable water so that it6 will be able to mobilize the needed mobile water treatment facility that will ensure the steady supply of potable water to the communities that urgently needs the same so that people will have sufficient supply of potable water for several days.
At the same time, the PMSEA’s Pusong Minero program is also doing the necessary coordination work for the conduct of relief operations within the Panay island which was one of the heavily devastated areas by Tropical Storm Paeng amidst the recommendation of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) to already stop the ongoing search and rescue operations for the reported missing individuals.
Sarmiento appealed to the member companies and close allies of PMSEA for their voluntary contributions and the pooling of their available resources which will be subsequently given to the people and the communities that had been identified by the Pusong Minero programs to be in dire need of assistance for them to be able to recover from the natural calamity that struck their places.
One of the member companies of PMSEA is the Benguet-based Itogon Suyoc Resources, Inc. (ISRI) through its coveted ISRI Cares program.