LGU Ayungon receives KALAHI-CIDSS projects

By Jennifer C. Tilos

DUMAGUETE CITY, Jan. 8 (PIA) -- Two hinterland barangays in the municipality of Ayungon in Negros Oriental with about 600 households particularly farmers will soon be granted farm-to-market road (FMR) projects. 

Barangays Amdos and Manogtong in Ayungon are recipients of the road projects under the government’s Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Development Social Services or KALAHI-CIDSS program. 

The community of Amdos has received assistance of about P3.2 million from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Kalahi-CIDSS for the construction and improvement of 1.8 kilometer farm-to-market road. 

Barangay Manogtong on the other hand, got more than P1.9 million for concreting the 1.1 kilometer barangay road to be used by over 279 residents in the area 

Community facilitator Emeterio Catipay said the farm-to-market roads will give the farmers a shorter route to transport their products such as bananas, corn, mangoes, coconut, sugarcane, and vegetables, to the market thus enabling them to save time, money and effort. 

Catipay said other projects to be implemented in Ayungon town include construction of 30 linear meter of foot-bridge for elementary and high schools students in cluster barangays of Tampocon and Gumentoc; water systems for the more than 265 households and adjacent two elementary schools in barangays Atabay and Kilaban. 

The Kalahi-Cidss projects also provide the construction of flood control in Ilaya River worth P2.7 million for the 417 households in Poblacion. 

KALAHI-CIDSS is a flagship anti-poverty program of the government. It is a community-driven development project implemented by the DSWD, with financial support from the World Bank (WB). (FCR/JCT/PIA- Negros Oriental)