Marawi City—Nearly 1,000 temporary shelter units will be awarded to families displaced by the Marawi siege last year, the provincial government said on Thursday.
Vice Governor Mamintal Bombit Adiong, Jr. said he had raised the possibility that convergent private groups and other aid partners might provide water tanks at the shelter site in Barangay Rorogagus here.
Meanwhile, 17,000 internally displaced people have received financial assistance cards, through a “Shariah-compliant Inclusive and Affordable Financial Facilities for Resilient and Developed Filipinos (iAFFORD) Cards.”
iAFFORD is part of convergent aid initiatives through the Financial Inclusion for Recovery of Marawi Project, the Firm group said in a joint statement sent to Manila Standard on Wednesday.
Of the 17,000 beneficiaries, 10,000 were “selected based on specific vulnerability criteria and [were included in] the cash assistance program,” the statement said.
Adiong said the local government units of Lanao Sut and Marawi have been working with the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation and the Pepsi Cola Products Philippines Inc. on having to “complete basic household needs at the Temporary IDP site” here.
The Temporary Shelter is a joint project of the National Housing Authority and Tzu Chi Foundation and is implemented by the Provincial Government of Lanao del Sur.
“I have asked PDRF and PCPPI the possibility of providing water tanks, health center equipment, and livelihood projects at the shelter site,” Adiong said.
The FIRM Project has been jointly undertaken by the Oxfam-Philippines, Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services, Inc. (IDEALS, Inc.), People’s Disaster Risk Reduction Network Inc., Al-Mujadilah Development Foundation, Inc., Smart Padala, PayMaya, United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund, United Nations Development Programme.
“More than a year has passed since the liberation of Marawi City, but many challenges remain for the internally-displaced people [IDPs] who call it home. Thousands of Maranaos still struggle to fully recover from the war,” the FIRM organizations said in their joint statement.