BACOLOD CITY — More than 2,000 residents of Barangay Pacol in Valladolid, Negros Occidental will benefit from the potable water project to be jointly funded by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and the municipal government.
The implementation of the Community-Managed Potable Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (CPWASH) Project was formalized with the signing of a memorandum of agreement among three parties on Friday.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Lucrecia Taberna signed on behalf of DAR Negros Occidental-South and Mayor Enrique Miravalles for the partner-local government unit, with Pacol Farmers and Rural Women Association (PFRWA) chairperson Josephine Osorio, during rites held at the association’s social hall.
Beneficiaries will include 1,500 students and teachers of the Valladolid National High School, 500 pupils of Pacol Elementary School, and almost 100 members of the recipient-agrarian reform beneficiaries organization.
The DAR will provide PHP80,000 as a counterpart fund — PHP50,000 for the purchase of construction materials and PHP30,000 for project-related technology training.
The municipal government will allocate PHP50,000 for the labor requirement and livelihood project components.
Miravalles expressed his gratitude to the partner-agency for the project as he assured the DAR of assistance in the delivery of its support services.
“I am also a farmer thus, agriculture development is one priority of my administration,” the mayor said.
In October last year, DAR Negros Occidental-South also partnered with the Sipalay City government and Manlucahoc Multi-Purpose Cooperative for the implementation of the same project that benefited about 2,000 residents of Barangay Manlucahoc.
Two months before that, the CPWASH Project was brought by the agency to Barangay Balicotoc in Ilog town, in collaboration with the municipal government of Ilog and the Balicotoc Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Farmers Association.
Also in April last year, the project was implemented by DAR Negros Occidental-South in Barangay Batuan, San Enrique town with the local government-partner and San Enrique Agrarian Reform Cooperative. (Nanette Guadalquiver/PNA)
