MindanaoToday.com | Klarex: Revamped ‘Serbisyo’ program starts in January
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – After conducting free social services in majority of Cagayan de Oro City’s 80 barangays over the past year, City Hall will revamp its outreach program this year to focus on the city’s inner sitios.
In his message during Monday morning’s flag raising program, Mayor Rolando “Klarex” Uy said details of his administration’s revamped outreach services program – to be dubbed ‘Suroy-Suroy Sa Baryo’ – will be tackled by City Hall’s departments during next Tuesday’s monthly management committee (ManComm) meeting.
“I will meet with our City Hall department managers to discuss our (outreach) program during the ManComm meeting to find ways on how to reach out and serve the innermost sitios of our barangays…we will prioritize our named barangays first rather than the numbered barangays,” the mayor said in Visayan to City Hall’s bureaucracy and officials.
Dubbed as the “Klarex Nga Serbisyo Sa Baryo (KSB)” during its launching in August 2022, the Klarex administration’s outreach services program had served the city’s numbered barangays (1-40) and most of the named urban, rural and hinterland barangays, even reaching as far as the outermost village of Besigan – located more than 30 kilometers from the city proper.
Uy said repeat visits will be conducted in sitios that they deem to need City Hall’s services the most, particularly those with limited access to social services.
Aside from free medical and dental services, City Hall’s outreach program also distributes PhilHealth cards, processing of licenses and documentary requirements and even lot titles, among others.
The KSB also features the weekly “Kasalan Ng Bayan” or mass wedding officiated by Uy and for over the past year, more than 3,000 couples were married. Each couple received a roasted pig, a cake, a bottle of wine and wedding gifts such as packs of rice and assorted grocery items from the mayor and administration councilors. (Stephen Capillas | City Information Office)
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