Tingog Party List practices the Bayanihan spirit through its cash-for-work program that aims to clear the mud and debris left by the massive floods of Typhoon Ulysses.

At least 100 Marikina City residents were tapped to clean up the mud and debris scattered in their communities. The participants were paid P3,000 for the 3-day clearing operation.

The Tingog volunteers, in coordination with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), rolled out the project in Barangay Malanday by the Tingog volunteers.

Marikina City was among the most affected areas of the deadly typhoon. Malanday alone has recorded three fatalities last month.

“Our volunteers in Marikina identified the communities that needed help badly after the onslaught of Typhoon Ulysses. Thanks to the cash-for-work program of the DSWD, we were able to mobilize residents who qualified as beneficiaries,” said Tingog party-list Representative Yedda Marie Romualdez.

Romualdez shared that this operation has prompted her to urge Congress to allocate more funding in the 2021 national budget for DSWD’s Risk Resiliency Program – Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (RRP-CCAM) – Disaster Risk Reduction.

“I have seen this program at work. What disaster survivors need are not dole-outs, but means to get back on their feet so they can resume their daily lives the soonest time possible,” she said.

The DSWD program provides aid to communities that are highly threatened to the effects of climate change.

This is not the last time that a cash-for-work program will be conducted. In the future, residents can look forward to initiatives such as growing trees of indigenous species, communal/organic gardening, dredging of waterways, canal de-clogging, community clean-up, construction of toilets, rehabilitation of river banks and farm-to-market roads, and other activities relative to environmental protection, climate change adaptation, mitigation, and disaster risk reduction.

Photo Credit: Facebook/Yedda Romualdez