His was supposed to be a simple idea but nobody is doing it,
it would take orders from President Rodrigo Duterte himself to make this a
national policy.
The President has given his marching orders to the Housing
and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) to look into the
construction of durable structures that will be used solely for evacuation
purposes.
The President made the statement after Department of Interior
and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said that one of their
priorities would be the construction of local evacuation centers.
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| Pres. Rodrigo Duterte (photo by PCOO) |
The Chief executive said, this was not the first time the
issue was brought up, noting how the school calendar of the school is disturbed
because the school premises serves as a rehabilitation area in times of
calamities.
“Every typhoon, calamity that would need the evacuation of
people, the public schools really suffer. And also it disturbs the system. It
causes an aberration rather in the schooling of children,” Duterte said.
The
president tasked the head of HUDCC chairman Eduardo Del Rosario to look and
study the matter.
“In the
matter of building some structure to accommodate evacuees, maybe General Del
Rosario can give us a blueprint of that … Since you are here and you can go
around and study,” he said.
“But it has
to be a durable one, semento (made of cement). But this can only be used for
evacuation purposes and to keep the people safe and not to disturb the
resumption of the governmental functions that we have, the ministrant schooling
and everything,” he added.
“The longer
they stay in the school, the longer would be the disturbance of the education
of the children,” Duterte said.
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