Olivarez distributes food packs to displaced Parañaque City workers
By Jean Fernando
Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez recently visited and distributed family food packs to displaced workers from the city who were relocated to Cavite.
Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez (Mayor Edwin Olivarez FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN)
According to City Administrator lawyer Ding Soriano, these families are those of pedicab drivers and vendors formerly living at San Juan De Coastal at Iwahig in Barangay San Dionisio, Parañaque, who were relocated and given a decent place to live by the city government. They now reside at Villa De Adelaida in Barangay Halang, Naic, Cavite and at Barangay Santiago in General Trias, Cavite.
Soriano said the pedicab drivers now living in Cavite were also listed by the city government as members of the city tricycle operators and drivers association (TODA) and association of pedicab drivers.
The city government said there are around 14,000 members of the city TODA and about 1,000 pedicab drivers who earn their living on daily basis, but were unable to ply their usual routes after the enhanced community quarantine started March 17.
City Public Information Office chief Mar Jimenez said the drivers will receive P1,000 in the form of a cash voucher from the city government. He also clarified that only registered TODA members will receive this cash aid.
He said the financial assistance from the city government will cushion the impact of sweeping quarantine measures among tricycle drivers plying routes in 16 barangays in the city.
The city PIO chief added that the financial relief will enable the affected drivers to buy food for their families, and is given in addition to the food assistance already being extended by the city government following the lockdown and suspension of transport system in the city.
Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez (Mayor Edwin Olivarez FACEBOOK / MANILA BULLETIN)
According to City Administrator lawyer Ding Soriano, these families are those of pedicab drivers and vendors formerly living at San Juan De Coastal at Iwahig in Barangay San Dionisio, Parañaque, who were relocated and given a decent place to live by the city government. They now reside at Villa De Adelaida in Barangay Halang, Naic, Cavite and at Barangay Santiago in General Trias, Cavite.
Soriano said the pedicab drivers now living in Cavite were also listed by the city government as members of the city tricycle operators and drivers association (TODA) and association of pedicab drivers.
The city government said there are around 14,000 members of the city TODA and about 1,000 pedicab drivers who earn their living on daily basis, but were unable to ply their usual routes after the enhanced community quarantine started March 17.
City Public Information Office chief Mar Jimenez said the drivers will receive P1,000 in the form of a cash voucher from the city government. He also clarified that only registered TODA members will receive this cash aid.
He said the financial assistance from the city government will cushion the impact of sweeping quarantine measures among tricycle drivers plying routes in 16 barangays in the city.
The city PIO chief added that the financial relief will enable the affected drivers to buy food for their families, and is given in addition to the food assistance already being extended by the city government following the lockdown and suspension of transport system in the city.