Legazpi City gets P7.6-Million Spanish grant

LEGAZPI CITY GETS P7.6-M Spanish Grant

Here is another good news for the Legazpeños who wish fro the continuous development of the city this year and beyond.

City Mayor Noel E. Rosal through the Social Welfare and Development Office headed by Mrs. Maria Marlene G. Manaya recently/renounced that the Spanish government through the AGENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE COOPERACION INTERNATIONAL PARA EL DESAROLLO (AEID) has extended grant to the City Government of Legazpi to finance the implementation of the PODER Y PROSPERIDAD DE LA COMMUNIDAD (PODER) Phaxe IV projects in the Bicol region.

The CSWDO Chief disclosed that the city was granted a total of P7.6-M grant to find seven (7) priority projects costing an estimated amount of P9.880-M. She said however, that LGU- Legazpi shall provide the counterpart fund of P1.930-M while five (5) strategic barangays located in downtown Legazpi and in the southern portion of the city have already approved in their 2009 budget the amount of P70 K per project or total of P350, 000 for the five villages.

The CSWD officer disclosed that the grant will finance felt-need projects in the following barangays:

Barangay Gogon – Barangay Livelihood Rehabilitation Support Facilities for Vegetable Growers (rehabilitation and improvement of nursery and food terminal.)
Brgy. Taysan – Construction of Taysan Resettlement Site Day Care Center.
Brgy. Homapon – Improvement/Rehabilitation of Farm to Market Road, in Sitio Agna.
Barangay Banquerohan – Reconstruction of Banquerohan Resettlement Site II Day Care Center and Construction of Banquerohan Satellite Integrated Health Service and Rehabilitation Center Serving as lying-in center for pregnant mothers and community based center for person with disabilities.
5. Brgy. Bariis- Bariis livelihood Rehabilitation Support Facility to Farmers (solar)

Manaya said the projects re expected to be completed at the end March, 2009.

The PODER projects are intended to rehabilitate the Bicol region following the devastations brought by two successive super typhoons that worst hit the city of Legazpi in the last quarter of 2006

– BY. VIRGILIO M. LOPEZ LUIS P. BELO
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