Comval brgy receives   aid from DavNor LGU

Barangay Naboc  of Monkayo, Compostela Valley received last December 14 the most substantial relief assistance it ever had so far after typhoon Pablo, and this came from the provincial government of Davao del Norte.
Barangay Captain  Alex Avila was glad that Davao del Norte Gov. Rodolfo P. Del Rosario along with other local chief executives and department heads took time  delivering relief goods and medical services to barangay Naboc which lies along Naboc River at the downstream of Mt. Diwalwal.
Naboc  is about 20 kilometers from Poblacion Monkayo, Compostela Valley.
Del Rosario turned over 1,500 food packs of four kilos of rice, four tins of sardines and four packs of noodles each, along with used clothing, as well as, lead the medical team to  provide medical relief to the injured.
According to him, Barangay Naboc covers a land area of about 370,000 hectares of mostly agricultural lands with only 819 households  comprising a population of about 3,500  .
Avila considered all residents in  his barangay as affected by Typhoon Pablo which took a toll on a wide area of banana farms  and other crops of  still undetermined value, killed eight  residents and washed away 218 houses.
Aside from  needing food,  his constituents especially the children are  also in need of medicine for  fever and diarrhea but  he reported  no outbreak yet.
Banking assurance from Gov. Del Rosario of more help from Davao del Norte  provincial government,  Avila said his baranagy will be asking  corn seeds so “we can start planting  our farms while waiting for the irrigation system to be restored .”
He is also asking any kind of, vegetable seeds “so we can now get back to our livelihood.”
Aside from rebuilding the livelihood in his barangay,  Avila is also looking at the need for retrieval assistance because he suspects some dead bodies are  still stuck amidst debris and logs along the river banks particularly in  puroks 5 and purok 7.
He believed that  dead bodies  carried by flood-waters from Mt. Diwata  had been washed down to his barangay.
“Tanang maanod didto, padulong na diri hasta ang gikan sa mina. (All that have been washed down from there all come down here including those coming from mining)” he said referring to the activities in Barangay Mt. Diwata at the upstream of Naboc River.
Avila, however, would like to confer with his barangay councilors as to the immediate needs that they would further be requesting officially from Davao del Norte.
 Meanwhile,  Avila noted that some children are showing stressed behavior due to the traumatic experienced they encountered during the typhoon.
“Manghilak na sila ug mag ulan. (They would cry when rains occur,),” he said. [JMDA/PIA 11]