BETTER MEANS. The Department of Social Welfare and Development-Western Visayas Field Office and La Castellana, Negros Occidental officials led by Mayor Alme Rhummyla Mangilimutan discuss strategies that will further improve the ongoing relief operations for families affected by the Mt. Kanlaon eruption in this undated photo. They agreed to conduct psychosocial interventions to lessen the impact of displacement on children. (DSWD photo)
MANILA – Department of Social Welfare and Development Western Visayas Field Office (DSWD FO-6) and local officials, led by La Castellana, Negros Occidental Mayor Alme Rhummyla Mangilimutan, have come up with strategies to further improve assistance for families affected by Mt. Kanlaon’s eruption.
Among others, they will put premium on psychosocial interventions for children through film showing, play and art therapy and counseling sessions in evacuation centers to help them get regain a sense of normalcy, according to a news release on Monday.
DSWD spokesperson Irene Dumlao said Mangilimutan and members of the Disaster Response Management Division of DSWD FO-6 also tackled how to improve the provision of food and non-food items to displaced families and issues in coordination.
Dumlao, also the DSWD Assistant Secretary for Disaster Response Management Group, said they are monitoring 1,260 families or 4,391 individuals staying in eight evacuation centers as of Monday.
Based on the latest report of the DSWD-Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center, more than PHP5.5 million worth of humanitarian assistance have been distributed to affected localities in Negros Island.
Mt. Kanlaon erupted for six minutes on the night of June 3, producing a 5,000-meter plume.
It remains under Alert Level 2 and registered fewer volcanic earthquakes and sulfur dioxide flux in the past 24 hours.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said Kanlaon had six volcanic quakes from Sunday midnight to Monday midnight, lower than the 17 tremors previously recorded. (PNA)
