ROXAS, Isabela-The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office 02 through the leadership of Director Remia T. Tapispisan spearheaded the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of 200 core shelter units amounting to P14 million pesos in this municipality on March 24, 2014.

These core shelter units are additional allocation for the said municipality and when finished, these will be granted to families who lost their homes during the onslaught of Typhoon Juan in 2011.

The Local Government of Roxas identified and provided the relocation site as their counterpart and was developed by the National Housing Authority.

Each core shelter unit is worth P70, 000 pesos per beneficiary/family and has a component of 10-day Cash for Work at P1, 910 pesos per beneficiary/family.

Another highlight of the event was the awarding of financial assistance to the disaster-affected families.

Earlier in 2012, the DSWD has already awarded 200 core shelter units to homeless families in the same municipality.

The core shelter units are strongly-structured and can withstand 180 to 220 kilometer per hour wind, intensity four (4) earthquakes, flooding and other similar hazard.

Core Shelter Assistance Project or CSAP is one of the rehabilitation projects of the national government implemented by DSWD. This project aims to provide shelter to disaster-affected families whose houses were destroyed during typhoons and calamities. ###By MARICEL B. ASEJO, Information Officer II, Pantawid Pamilya and ROMMEL S. GAMIAO, SWO II, Disaster and Risk Reduction Management