Sixty-one more former New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Davao Region recently received new housing units in Freedom Residences, Barangay Cuambugan ,Tagum City, Davao del Norte in a ceremony held on Friday (October 15).
The said housing project from the National Housing Authority (NHA) is under the government’s Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (ECLIP).
In a statement posted at NHA 11 Facebook Page, the beneficiaries are surrenderers who yielded to the government troops from 2020 up to 2021.
One of the recipients, “Ka Nelson,” from Paquibato District in Davao City, thanked the government for the housing units turned over to them.
“We should thank the government for the help, in spite of what we have done, let us all take care of this house for this is the only one that can be inherited by our children,” he said in vernacular.
Early last week, a total of 52 former NPA fighters who surrendered in Davao de Oro and Davao del Norte also received the same housing units from NHA.
The ECLIP is a program of the government specifically designed to help former rebels start new lives. The program provides the beneficiaries with P15,000 initial cash assistance, P50,000 livelihood assistance, housing assistance, capacity building and training.
E-CLIP is the flagship program of the Duterte administration that seeks to effect social healing and national unity through a whole-of-nation approach, towards the higher objective of having just and lasting peace.
It provides social equity to former members of the CPP-NPA-NDF and the Militia ng Bayan by devising a different modality of giving benefits and services to the former rebels, in order to reintegrate them into mainstream society.
