MALUSO, Basilan — Some 3,000 residents, including children, on Sunday benefited from the conduct of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) People’s Day in this municipality.
Myrna Jocelyn Henry, ARMM-Humanitarian Emergency Action and Response Team (ARMM-HEART) information officer, told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) that the beneficiaries came from nine clustered barangays of this town.
Among the services rendered during the ARMM People’s Day were children’s feeding program, medical checkups, circumcision, job fair, bomb awareness, madaris education, and others.
Free eye glasses were also given to identified beneficiaries, including senior citizens.
The People’s Day here is the first to be conducted in this province. On Monday, March 5, the activity will be held in the town of Sumisip.
ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman told PNA that the People’s Day is a program of his office to bring closer the government to the people.
Hataman said through the program, “all the regional line agencies will be converged to let the people feel and avail the services” of government.
“We hope it will be duplicated by the provincial and municipal governments,” he said citing the regional government, by initiating the People’s Day, will serve as the role model.
Hataman said they have identified 636 barangays as priority areas to be served this year in the entire autonomous region.
Henry said the 636 barangays will be clustered into 64 areas to be able to serve the identified beneficiaries. (Teofilo Garcia, Jr/PNA)
