Lions to make houses for landslide survivors

LIONS Clubs International (LCI) is bent on helping build houses for the evacuees of the Barangay Tina-an, City of Naga landslide.

In a meeting with Naga City offcials, Lions District 301 B2 Governor Jerry Joseph Lim expressed the organization’s intent in helping the City fulfill its promise of building houses at the permanent relocation site of the 360 family-evacuees.

Lim and the rest of the officials had a dialogue with Ruth Rowena Alensonorin, the city mayor’s executive assistant and city assessor Flordelis Ababa, on the local government unit’s (LGU) plan to permanently relocate the families.

“We will wait until the LGU will come up with a concrete plan already on the type of houses or any other relocation plan so that we will know where we, the Lions, can come in,” Lim said.

In Tacloban, Lim said, there is already a soon to be finished P250 million Lions Village with 100 houses for the victims of typhoon Yolanda.

He said it is also best that there will already be clear ownership of the lot for relocation by the LGU since it would hamper or discourage the assistance from LCI.

A problem on ownership on the lot for relocation was encountered in Tacloban, which delayed the completion of the project.

Alensonorin said lot ownership will not be a problem since the Provincial Board of Cebu (PB) already passed the Ordinance donating the 2.3 hectare portion of the Balili property in barangay Tina-an.

Ababa said the city is studying two options for the type of houses for the evacuees: row houses and the mid-rise condominium.

“As of now, the mid-rise condominium unit is being carefully considered in order to maximize the space,” Ababa said.

President Rodrigo Duterte, in his visit last month, already instructed the National Housing Authority for the acquisition of lot for relocation and construction of the houses.