Valenzuela City received its third Galing Pook Award for its housing project – Disiplina Village – that will put 4,594 informal settler families living along the waterways into safer and more dignified communities by early 2018.
The recognition was earned following the successful presentation of Mayor Rex Gatchalian to the 2017 Galing Pook Awards National Selection Committee of the innovativeness of the project.
The presentation and awarding ceremony was the highlight of the Galing Pook Foundation’s 2017 Festival of Best Practices held at the Novotel Manila, Araneta Center, Quezon City.
Each winning LGU received P100,000 to further improve their initiative and a marker of Galing Pook.
The first site of Disiplina Village in Barangay Ugong started in 2009 for Typhoon Ondoy victims. It benefitted 892 ISFs living along the dangerous banks of Tullahan River.
In 2016, its bigger sibling in Barangay Bignay started welcoming relocatees from other waterways in the city.
The project aims to relocate around 3,702 more families that would result in zero ISFs living along waterways in Valenzuela City by 2018.
Disiplina Village, cumulatively, is the country’s biggest in-city housing project with a total land area of 13 hectares for its two sites.
