The empowered Community volunteers of Barangay Barra together with Ms. Merly C. Molo, Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer of Tudela, Misamis Occidental and Keene Barquin Area Coordinator of Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services – National Community Driven Development (Kalahi CIDSS-NCDDP), pose for posterity after the successful groundbreaking ceremony of community sub-project in their barangay. In Barra, the community sub-project is the Construction of a 70 Linear Meter Flood Control Structure along Purok 3with an NCDDP grant of Php 1,221,116.02. Local project cost counterpart from the community amounted to Php 29,540.00 (in kind). The Barangay Local Government Unit (BLGU) allotted Php 100,000.00 (cash). The community volunteers also received an in kind counterpart amounting to Php 5,843.98.   

Photo by Sohanida H. Tawano, DSWD KC-NCDDP Community Empowerment Facilitator