Respondent No.

1 (Nenita and Antonio)

 There should be a community consultation or meeting upon identification of those affected

households.
 Cash assistance should be used for construction of materials.
 The project management team was the one who approached and also discussed the
intervention to us.
 We received 5000 pesos.
 The earthquake occurs February and we attended and participated meetings around May
 We spent the money to buy woods and gravel.
 We are truly happy because we received that cash assistance even if it’s small compared to
others.
 The others received bigger amount of money than us because their houses were totally damage.

Other agencies who came to helped:

 Chamber of Commerce- Rice

 TESDA- 5 pcs of plywood, 5 sacks of cements with nails.
 Red Cross- Emergency Kit

“Sadly, I don’t remember the discussion during the meeting. The assistance and interventions helped us
fixing our house but more importantly it made us realized that other people were positive to help us.” –
Nenita

“We had a hard time going out of our house because we were staying in the second floor that time, our
house was actually old.”

 Its okay with us that they instructed us to use the money to buy construction materials for our
shelter. They also reminded us to keep the receipts.
 We decide to build our house beside the road because then we’d be able to go out of our house
faster in case another earthquake occurs.
 PhilVocs trained them on DRR.
 Before the earthquake occurred, we were confident about our security and safety.
 The MLGU rescuer came to assist late and it’s frustrating.
 The one who responded early were from Private sectors, concern citizen and other CSO’s.
 The relief assistance from Barangay came from the congregation of the son of the barangay
chairman.
 DSWD gave banig and mosquito net.
 Accordingly, Malimono received bigger cash assistance despite the fact that they’re category fell
on barely damaged.
 MSWDO said, “You all relied on aid”.
 They also choose and picked those who will receieved the lunch packs for feeding.
 Province LGU gave 10,000 assistance but residents were forced to buy from them sub-standard
materials such as plywood. It was also more expensive..

Recommendations:
1. Cash showed be the form of assistance instead of goods or in-kind.