PAGADIAN CITY, 26 Dec (PIA)
– The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (RDRRMC) and the Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) Regional
Office 9 recently conducted a year-end conference and 2012 Gawad Kalasag
Regional Awards held in Pagadian Bay Plaza Hotel, this city.
OCD 9 Regional Director
Adriano D. Fuego in his welcome address said, “ it is indeed a privilege that
you were able to attend this conference. Another year is about to end and this
is a great opportunity to come together and look back to the year 2012.”
Meanwhile, Dir. Fuego also
disclosed that this is the first time that they have given awards to the best
prepared province, city, municipality and non-government organizations (NGOs)
heroes in the region.
The Regional Gawad Kalasag
Awardees for 2012 were as follows: Zamboanga del Norte as the Best Provincial
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, Dipolog City as the Best City
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council and Molave, Zamboanga del Sur as
the Best Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. The awardees
received a plague of appreciation and a check amounting to P30,000 each.
For the Best Volunteer
Organization and Hospital, the Organized Radio Assistance and Communication
Information Services (ORACIS) and Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) was
adjudged as the Best Volunteer Organization and Best Hospital (Regional &
Training) respectively, they were given a plague of appreciation.
And for the Heroic
Act/Deed during emergency response and rescue operations (individual category)
the following were given a plague of appreciation; Karon Esmali, Ricky Buyser,
Constantino Soriano, Jr. and Edwin Casalan all of Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte.
OCD Undersecretary and
Executive Director of NDRRMC Benito T. Ramos who was ably represented by BGen.
Romeo Fajardo, Deputy Administrator of OCD as the guest of honor and speaker
congratulated the RDRRMC for Region 9 under the leadership of Director Adriano
Fuego for a job well done in making this fiscal year a very productive one for
the disaster risk reduction and management advocacy.
“Let us heighten our
watchfulness against any salient calamity, so that even it becomes like a thieve
in the night we shall be ready and
therefore, I urge you to maintain vigilant and be pro-active,” Fajardo said. (JPA/CAL/PIA9)