Pasil barangay tanods get free rain boots to reach far flung households

Pasil, Kalinga – The Municipality of Pasil in Kalinga is one of the disaster prone areas in the province with scattered populace that some households can only be reached on foot.

With the onset of the rainy season and the experience of torrential rains in the municipality, moving around the barangays has become challenging.

To ease the burden and to avoid injuries that may result from walking and hiking barefoot, the barangay tanods, as members of the peace-keeping force and rescue operation, requested for rain boots from the Philippine National Police which the latter immediately responded to.

Pasil Acting Chief of Police, Police Lieutenant Benjo Torres, said that to answer the request they made a project funded through the End Local Communist Armed Conflict or ELCAC fund.

Torres added that there are already three barangays who benefitted from the project: Barangay Pugong, Dalupa and Colayo with 11 active tanods. Further, he assured that tanods from the other 11 barangays will be provided next.

The acting chief of police bares that the project was conceptualized to help the tanods in the performance of their duty this rainy season when calamities and disasters may arise.

“Dagitoy gamin barangay tanod nga dagitoy wennu BPAT [Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team] ket isu da ngay iti kasla nga extension of the law enforcement met lang to implement the barangay or local ordinances in the area,” he added.

He said that for the meantime, they can only give rain boots but are planning to provide flashlights and raincoats as well to the beneficiaries, “ta very urgent tatta a kasapulan da dagitoy ta rainy season ken disaster ken calamity tatta a tiyempo.”

Meanwhile, the local government unit is now taking the necessary preparations since the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) declared the start of rainy season last June 4.

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