CASTILLEJOS, Zambales – More than 500 residents of Balaybay Upper Resettlement, a remote area in this municipality, received medical, dental and other social services during a community outreach project launched by the municipal government last Friday.
Volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, police officers and Sangguniang Bayan kagawads joined Castillejos mayor Jose Angelo Dominguez in the whole-day activities. These include medical and dental services, feeding program, free haircuts and distribution of slippers for school children.
In cooperation with members of the Zambales Provincial Public Safety Company (PPSC) and the 315th Infantry Battalion, the community-based project was the second in the series of outreach projects launched by the municipal government for residents living mostly in remote or mountainous barangays of this municipality.
The first outreach project was launched last March 2011 where some 300 Aetas and indigent families in Barangay Canaynayan received medical services and free slippers for school children.
Balaybay Resettlement is a relocation site for residents of the province affected by the eruption of the Mount Pinatubo in 1992 while Canaynayan is a relocation site for the Aetas.
Dominguez said these outreach programs was in line with his administration’s thrust to bring social services to the far flung communities in this municipality rather than the people going to hospitals in Olongapo City and the province which most residents cannot afford the cost of hospital bills.
Medicines and other logistic requirements for the missions were sourced from the municipal social services budget and donations collected by the PPSC.
The next activity is scheduled on April 15 at Balaybay Resettlement lower area where most residents thrive from farming and field labours.
Volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, police officers and Sangguniang Bayan kagawads joined Castillejos mayor Jose Angelo Dominguez in the whole-day activities. These include medical and dental services, feeding program, free haircuts and distribution of slippers for school children.
In cooperation with members of the Zambales Provincial Public Safety Company (PPSC) and the 315th Infantry Battalion, the community-based project was the second in the series of outreach projects launched by the municipal government for residents living mostly in remote or mountainous barangays of this municipality.
The first outreach project was launched last March 2011 where some 300 Aetas and indigent families in Barangay Canaynayan received medical services and free slippers for school children.
Balaybay Resettlement is a relocation site for residents of the province affected by the eruption of the Mount Pinatubo in 1992 while Canaynayan is a relocation site for the Aetas.
Dominguez said these outreach programs was in line with his administration’s thrust to bring social services to the far flung communities in this municipality rather than the people going to hospitals in Olongapo City and the province which most residents cannot afford the cost of hospital bills.
Medicines and other logistic requirements for the missions were sourced from the municipal social services budget and donations collected by the PPSC.
The next activity is scheduled on April 15 at Balaybay Resettlement lower area where most residents thrive from farming and field labours.
