The floods that swept through dozens of barangays in two provinces of the Bangsamoro region and its Special Geographic Area last month have subsided, but the regional government’s social services ministry continues to provide food rations to evacuees.
Local officials from various towns in Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte told reporters on Sunday, October 5, that personnel from the Ministry of Social Services and Development – Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao continued providing food supplies to their displaced constituents until last Friday.
The MSSD-BARMM’s relief operations last week also covered parts of the SGA, which has eight newly created towns under the Bangsamoro government, but are in Cotabato province in Administrative Region 12.
Reports from local government units and the provincial offices of MSSD-BARMM in Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte indicate that the ministry facilitated the delivery of 10,950 food packs last week to Moro families affected by last month’s floods.
MSSD-BARMM field workers also distributed 3,204 hygiene, water, sleeping, and infant kits to villagers in the two provinces and the SGA last week.
Local executives in the eight newly created towns in the SGA separately told reporters on Sunday that they are grateful to officials of the MSSD-BARMM and the chief minister of the Bangsamoro region, Abdulrauf Macacua, for embarking on extensive relief works for barangays under their local government units that got inundated with floodwaters spawned by heavy rains in the mountain ranges around.
The 29 towns in Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte and in the SGA that got flooded last month, are near Central Mindanao’s 220,000-hectare Ligawasan Delta, a catch basin for more than a dozen rivers that spring from mountain ranges in highland areas in provinces nearby.