by TERENCE T. TORIANO
Mayor Raymar A. Rebaldo presided a joint executive and legislative meeting of the Local Government of Kalibo last month. The meeting agreed to donate a financial assistance of Php 200,000 to the hardest hit of all cities in Metro Manila by Typhoon Ondoy, Marikina City.
The financial assis-tance will be taken from the 20 percent Calamity Fund approved in a Sangguniang Bayan Resolution proposed by SB member Mark Vega Quimpo. The resolution was unanimously approved by the august body.
Aside from the financial assistance, the people of Kalibo began donating used clothes and cash through Mayor Rebaldo’s Office and the LGU Kalibo’s own radio station, CBIS DyYM 98.5 Ka-Tribu Radyo. More-over, a private firm and a forwarding company pledged to take care of the delivery of relief goods to Marikina City.
The Kalibonhons have developed an affinity to the people of Marikina through Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando and, his wife, Mayor Marides Fernando who sent MMDA heavy machineries and personnel to the capital town of Aklan after it was devastated by Typhoon Frank on June 21, 2008.
"We neither have the technical equipment nor we are a rich municipality. But we do what we can to our brothers and sisters in Manila especially the people of Marikina even in a simple way that we can return the favor and help them in their time of need," said Rebaldo during an interview with Ka-Tribu Radyo. /MP
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