By
Jocelyn P. Alvarez
ZAMBOANGA
CITY, 15 January (PIA) - - Fourteen families affected by a fire in Barangay Mampang this
city sometime in October, last year, recently received a total of P54,000 as
the city government’s cash aide.
Vic Larato of the City Information Office, in a
press statement said the distribution of cash assistance was done at the City
Hall by Mayor Celso Lobregat himself.
Larato said, the victims whose houses were
totally destroyed by fire received P5,000 per family while those assessed/considered
as house-sharers, received P3,000 each.
A family whose house was partially damaged also
received P3,000.
“The amount was too small to compensate the
properties they lost to the fire but it is something at least to start on,”
Larato quoted the mayor as saying. (FPG/JPA/PIA9)