The Davao City First Congressional District Office of Representative Paolo Z. Duterte will extend assistance to families displaced by fire incidents through the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD) program.
In a statement, Duterte’s office said that around 547 families in the first district displaced by the fire incidents, including about 900 recipients of TUPAD payout, have yet to receive their assistance. These are recipients who did not claim their assistance earlier.
The recipients who will benefit from the program are fire victims, vendors, school janitors and maintenance, barbers, shoemakers, tailors, bote-bakal, families of the inmates, and salon staff, among others.
Schedule for the distribution of assistance will start on January 23, 2023.
Last month, the staff of the First Congressional District Office distributed the payout to thousands of families from 54 barangays in the first district through TUPAD cash assistance.
Aside from the distribution of the TUPAD payout, the said office also had a gift-giving program earlier to 8,860 barangay functionaries in the first district. Duterte’s son, Rodrigo “Rigo” Duterte II, led the gift-giving program by giving out Christmas presents.
Duterte’s office said the gift-giving program aimed to give everyone a Merry Christmas despite all the heavy responsibilities and challenges everyone went through from the previous years until recently.
