Nearly 1,000 families in oil spill-stricken Pola, Oriental Mindoro province, received financial aid and livelihood grants from the DSWD as President Marcos promised to “stay on top of the situation” until they have recovered from the crisis. | krixiasINQ
Development as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. promised to “stay on top of the situation” until they have recovered from the crisis.
Marcos himself, along with Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gatchalian, led the distribution of cash aid to Pola fisherfolk during his visit there on April 15, nearly two months after the tanker MV Princess Empress, carrying 800,000 liters of industrial oil, sank off Naujan and Pola towns and started leaking into the open sea.Since then, fisherfolk in Mindoro, Palawan, Antique, and Batangas have been struggling to make both ends meet, especially amid an ongoing fishing ban in the affected waters.
However, Marcos assured the fisherfolk that they “could rest assured that the national government is here to help you get through this situation and we will continue to assist you until you are able to recover from the effects of the oil spill.”
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