December 25-26-27, 2022, Northern Mindanao experienced continuous torrential rainfall, causing landslides and flash floods in low-lying areas around Northern Mindanao and neighboring areas, forcing residents to flee from their homes in search of higher ground and safe places.
The so-called “SHEARLINE” produced thousands of millimeters of rain in the first 48 hours – that shocked the residents of the different cities and municipalities of the region for the floods people did not experienced in the past storms and typhoons.
In light of this calamity, COCPO Kaligtasan and Kalikasan (KALIGKASAN) advocacy support groups headed by President Jerson Ebal from NGO called Kusgan Volunteers Inc (KVI) under the guidance of PCOL AARON MONTALAN MANDIA City Director of Cagayan de Oro City Police Office reached out to good samaritans, organizations and other stakeholders, using radio broadcasting facility of Strong Radio 90.3FM, the program Serbisyong Kusgan and social media platforms. Different organizations belonging to COCPO KALIGKASAN Advocacy Support Groups like CLIMBS Cares, CLIFSA and other non-government organizations and individuals, answered the call and have mobilized help in the form of relief goods and other relief needs such as clothing, slippers, beddings, towels, drinking water, canned goods, assorted food items, and cash from generous donors to help the victims and their families who lost their homes and possessions due to flash floods and land slides brought on by the rain.
Relief goods packed includes rice, drinking water, and assorted food items, which we re-packed in grocery bags to give to each of the affected families. Along with a bag of groceries, each family received a 5-kilo bag of rice, and 2 liters sealed drinking water.
The first batch of relief items were distributed on December 29, 2022 to 720 families in the different affected cities and municipalities of Misamis Occidental such as Municipalities of Clarin, Tudela, Sinunuk, Plaridel, City of Oroquieta and others, including some affected families in Lanao del Norte.
The recipients of the relief goods were very grateful for the much needed support to help them get back on their feet again.
PCOL MANDIA thanked the organizations who are part of the COCPO KALIGKASAN Advocacy Support Groups like Kusgan Volunteers Incorporated (KVI), Strong Radio 90.3FM, CLIMBS Cares, CLIFSA and Rescueline for the unending effort and voluntarism.
The City Director also commended the CCADU personnel under the supervision of PLTCOL EVAN NEQUINTO VIÑAS, Chief CCADU/PIO COCPO for their relentless effort on organizing, coordinating and mobilizing the community in order to strengthen the support to the PNP advocacies to help and serve the people who are in need not only in Cagayan de Oro City but also to the different part of the country.
COCPO KALIGKASAN Advocacy Support Groups have been known for years on extending help to the different parts of the country on giving aid and help on the victims of disasters and calamities.
Second relief operations will be conducted soon in the affected areas of Misamis Oriental.
PCOL AARON M MANDIA and the whole COCPO KALIGKASAN Advocacy Support Group expressed gratitude to all the officers and staff of the different organizations who generously voluntered their presence to the said relief operations: Mr. Reynan Diaz VP for Mktg CLIMBS Cares, Engr Charles Magarin, Chief, Relief Operations CLIMBS, Mr. John Michael Bustamante, scooper and live coverage on the relief operations.
Source: COCPO PIO
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