December 3, 2020 | ISABELA CITY, Basilan – HAPIsabelaRice distribution for 30,000 households in all 45 barangays of HAPIsabela, is on its seventh day!
This 3rd Wave of Food Assistance is fully funded by the City Government from local funds culled out of the Php36,000,000.00 unused savings from DRRM Quick Response Funds for FY 2016, 2017, 2019.
The Isabela City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (CDRRMC) headed by Mayor Sitti Djalia A Turabin-Hataman and Vice Mayor Kifli Salliman requested that the said amount be used to augment the City’s efforts at preventing, detecting, isolating, treating and reintegrating COVID19 patients. This was followed by concurrence from the City Development Council (CDC) and then finally, approval by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), for the following:
ICS Trainings
Emergency Relief Program
Stockpiling of Relief Goods (NFI/FPI)
Psychological Stress Debriefing
Operation of Isolation Facilities
Community Food Kitchen
Emergency Medical Relief
To date, thirty-five (35) barangays with 18,691 households have already been served with HAPIsabelaRice since the 3rd wave of food assistance began on November 25, 2020, these are:
Day 1 – November 25 (Wednesday – 897):
Baluno – 897
Day 2 – November 26 (Thursday – 4,665):
Sta. Barbara – 513
Diki – 1,500
Marang-marang – 341
Carbon – 820
Tampalan – 1491
Day 3 – November 27 (Friday – 2,786):
Panigayan – 619
Lampinigan – 450
Lukbuton – 550
Cabunbata – 1167
Day 4 – November 30 (Monday – 3,922):
Eastside – 722
Sunrise – 705
Marketsite – 760
Sta Cruz – 210
Tabiawan – 591
Port area – 340
Riverside – 594
Day 5 – December 1 (Tuesday – 1,916)
Kumalarang – 350
Balatanay – 175
Makiri – 176
Lumbang – 579
Maligue – 636
Day 6 – December 2 (Wednesday – 3,086)
Kaum Purnah Zone 1 – 664
Kaum Purnah Zone 2 – 650
Kaum Purnan Zone 3 – 413
Isabela Proper – 336
Seaside – 128
Timpul – 245
La Piedad – 650
Day 7 – December 3 (Thursday – 2,266)
Calvario – 358
Kapatagan Grande – 401
Small Kapatagan – 223
Kapayawan – 274
Masola – 577
Panunsulan – 406
On Day 8, December 4, Friday, a total of 1,305, sacks of HAPIsabelaRice will be distributed to the ff barangays:
Binuangan – 680
Busay – 625
… with the rest of the City’s barangays already being calendared for distribution as well.
Special thanks to our partners in the 3rd Wave of HAPIsabelaRice Distribution:
Barangay Officials and Tanods
CDRRMO Volunteer Frontliners
DOLE-SPES (Special Program for Employment of Students) student workers
DOLE-TUPAD (Tulong Pangkabuhayan Para Sa Disadvantaged/Displaced) worker beneficiaries
City General Services Office
Coca-Cola
4th Special Forces Battalion
(IMPORTANT NOTE: The HAPIsabelaRice is being distributed on a strict “1 house = 1 10-kilo sack” basis. Please approach your Purok Leader or Barangay Officials so that your household (regardless of number of residents/sharers/renter families residing in it) is included in the validated/updated barangay data on existing households in your Purok/Area.)