CENTRAL Luzon Police Director Brigadier General Rhodel O. Sermonia said that 104, 988 families in the region have benefited in the "Rektang Bayanihan: Adopt-a-Family" program which was launched three days after the implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine on March 17, 2020.
With Police Regional Office Region (PRO)-Central Luzon Food Bank, the police official said different government agencies and stakeholders all over the region continue to donate non-perishable food items which augments those being distributed by the regional police office.
The donations from the private sector support the Central Luzon police's relief operations amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
Lieutenant Colonel Romell Velasco, officer in charge of the PRO-Central Luzon Regional Community Development and Affairs Division and supervisor of said program, assured the public that the police will continue the distribution of relief goods especially to indigent families.
Velasco said Rektang Bayanihan is also in partnership with the Joint Peace Industrial Concern Office.
Sermonia renewed his appeal to wealthy residents in Central Luzon to help in the effort of the police to assist the less fortunate or most vulnerable sectors in every barangay through "Rektang Bayanihan."