Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio led the launching of ‘Bantay Dagat’ in the city through a coastal clean-up along Times Beach on Saturday.
“Kining Bantay Dagat is a project of the City Government of Davao, complimentary project ni siya sa atong Bantay Bukid (This Bantay Dagat is a project of the City Government of Davao, a complimentary project of our Bantay Bukid),” she said.
Duterte-Carpo said the project supports the call to devote the first and third Saturday mornings of every month to the cleaning of the coastal barangays. “The first Saturday will have a food for work component meaning the first 30 persons will be given food packs in exchange for garbage collected from the beach lines,” she said.
The lady-mayor said there will be also paid volunteers who will be the ones to clean the coastal areas every Saturday. “Four Saturdays, they will work every morning and they will be paid P2,000 as month,” she bared. Meanwhile, the mayor also urged the people living in the coastal barangays not to throw their garbages to the sea and practice waste segregation.
“Kung unsa tong ilang mabaligya sa recycling ilang ibaligya. Kung adunay dili mabaligya sa recycling shops, ilaha kining tapukon og ilabay sa correct nga basurahan (if there are garbage that can be sold from their recycling, they can sell it. If there are garbage that cannot be sold, they need to throw it in a proper dumping area),” she said.
