THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DA) has partnered with the Municipal Government of Valladolid to establish the Community-Managed Potable Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (CPWASH) Project at Barangay Pacol in the said southern Negros Occidental locality.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Lucrecia Taberna signed a memorandum of agreement with Mayor Enrique Miravalles and Pacol Farmers and Rural Women Association (PFRWA) chairman Josephine Osorio at the association’s social hall Friday, August 24.
Taberna said the project will benefit at least 2,500 residents of Barangay Pacol including 1, 500 students and teachers of Valladolid National High School, 500 pupils of Pacol Elementary School, and 97 members of the recipient-agrarian reform beneficiaries organization (Arbo).
The agency will allocate P80,000 as a counterpart.
Of the amount, P50,000 is intended for the purchase of construction materials and P30,000 for project-related technology training.
Para-engineers will be hired for the construction of the facilities, she added.
For its part, the local government will fund P50,000 for the labor requirement and livelihood project components.
Miravalles has thanked the agency for the partnership and assured to help the latter in the delivery of its support services, which are vital in uplifting the lives of all farmer-beneficiaries in the municipality.
“I am also a farmer. Thus, agriculture development is one priority of my administration,” he said, adding that “I want to see the farmers in Valladolid being empowered and becoming successful.”