Waray news: Mga ahensya han gobyerno nanguna han pagselibrar han disaster consciousness month

By Samuel D. Candido

Friday 6th of July 2012
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, Hulyo (PIA) -- Nagkaurusa an mag-iba-iba nga mga sektor han aton kumunidad nga kon diin pinangunahan ini han mga ahensya han gobyerno ngan han mga pribado nga ahensya para suportaran an pagpahibaro ngan pag-andam kontra hadton hulga han kalamidad duranti ini han pagtikang han mga aktibidades han paghinumdum han ikina-tuig nga pagselibrar han National Disaster Consciousness Month yana nga bulan han Hulyo.

Ini nga okasyon en pinangunahan han Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC), ngan kasumpay hini nga selebrasyon may-ada hini tema nga amo an “Ligtas na Bayan, Maunlad na Pamayanan.”

An Eastern Visayas en kinikilala komo agsob agi-an hin mga kalamidad nga kon diin nahi-uupod ini han mga rehiyon ha bug-os nga nasud kalakip hini an probinsya han Leyte, Southern Leyte, Northern Samar ngan Eastern Samar komo hataas an peligro o kataragman labi na gud han pagbaha ngan mga pagtuno duranti ini ha panahon hiton uuran.

Para han yana nga tuig nga selebrasyon, an mga miyembro han ahensya han gobyerno en gintagan hin importansya nga kinahanglan gud nga magkamay-ada hin mga plano para maibanan ngan mapagaan-gaan an epekto han mga kalamidad.

An Department of the Interior and Local Government pinaagi han RDRRMC’s en iginbutang komo committee on preparedness en nanawagan hadton ngatanan nga mga local government unit para mahibaro an publiko bahin han kaandaman han kalamidad o disaster preparedness didto han ira mga tagsa-tagsa nga bungto ngan mga barangay.

Sumala kan Arnel Agabe, DILG assistant regional director nga adton mga local government unit en kinahanglan mag-aram ngan magbuhat hin mga paagi bahin han disaster risk reduction and management para agud malikyan adton daku hin ura-ura nga epekto han natural nga mga kalamidad.

Samtang, an National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) en iginbutang komo daman committee on recovery and rehabilitations nga kon diin gintagan daman hin importansya an disaster risk reduction and management bahin hadton isyu nga milyon-milyon ka pesos nga kantidad hin mga propridad an nagkakawara duranti ini hiton kalamidad.

Segun kan Bonifacio Uy, NEDA acting regional director nga an mga panhinabo nga mga kalamidad en usa nga nakakahatag hin pwerhisyo para agud matuman naton an regional development goals. Gintagan pa niya hin duon nga an amo la nga paagi para malikyan an epekto han kalamidad amo adton haruhalarum pa nga hibabru-an bahin han kalamidad ngan an pagpahia-ra han kaandam han kalamidad. (EOPT/Translated by SDC/EOT/AJC- PIA 8, Eastern Samar)





Gov’t agencies lead disaster consciousness month celeb
By Aurora J. Casimpan
Thursday 5th of July 2012
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TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte, July 5 (PIA) -- Government and non-government agencies joined hands to promote awareness and preparedness against the threat of disaster in kick off activities in observance of National Disaster Consciousness Month this July. Led by the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC), the event carries the theme “Ligtas na Bayan, Maunlad na Pamayanan.”

East Visayas has been identified as prone to calamities among the regions in country with the provinces of Leyte, Southern Leyte, Northern Samar and Eastern Samar as high risk to flooding and landslide during the rainy season.

For this year’s celebration, member government agencies put the emphasis on the importance of the need to come up with plans to mitigate the effects of calamities.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government which is the RDRRMC’s assigned committee preparedness has called on the local government units for the awareness of the public on disaster preparedness at the local level.

Arnel Agabe, DILG assistant regional director said that local government units need to take on disaster risk reduction and management measures to prevent the huge effects of natural disasters.

The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) assigned as the committee on recovery and rehabilitations emphasized on the importance of disaster risk reduction and management as on issue as millions of pesos worth of properties are lost during calamities.

Bonifacio Uy, NEDA acting regional director said that occurrences of calamities are crucial to the attainment of the regional development goals. He stressed that the only way to avoid the effects of disaster is to deeper disaster awareness and practice disaster preparedness. (EOT/AJC-PIA8)

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