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Senator Robin Padilla expressed gratitude for the additional support promised by the Senate for the Marawi Compensation Board (MCB) for 2025. Padilla said the MCB particularly needs additional personnel to make sure it does its job correctly in distributing compensation to those affected by the fighting to liberate Marawi from armed groups in 2017. “The […]
House of Representatives Minority Leader Nonoy Libanan has declared his support for Malacañang’s plan to provide another P1 billion in new appropriations for the Marawi Siege Victims Compensation Fund. “No expense should be spared to enable the residents of Marawi City to rebuild and renew their lives,” Libanan, a 4Ps party-list representative, said. “We must […]
Senator Dick Gordon welcomed the passage of Republic Act No. 11696, which awards compensation to the victims of the 2017 Marawi siege. Gordon, co-author, and co-sponsor of the measure is hopeful that the law will be used as the first step by victims seeking to recover from the horrors of armed conflict. “With the signing […]
Four overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), including a survivor of the Marawi siege who experienced maltreatment while working abroad received livelihood assistance from Senator Cynthia Villar. In a meeting with Villar at the Senate, the OFWs each received a start-up kit for a sari-sari store (variety store)and financial assistance under the veteran legislator’s program for repatriated […]
The Office of the Cabinet Secretariat, through the initiative of Secretary Karlo Nograles, conducted an outreach activity in Marawi City last August 14 in partnership with non-governmental organziations MovEd Foundation, Kaayo Modern Mindanao and the Philippine Muslim Women Council (PMWC). During the outreach activity, 500 school kits were given to pupils of the Harat Medina […]