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We hope the families also get long-term jobs with decent pay.
“The Department of Social Welfare and Development is looking at an abandoned Government Service Insurance System building in Ermita, Manila as a temporary shelter for 1,250 street families,” reports Rainier Allan Ronda in The Philippine Star.
DSWD Secretary Corazon Soliman explained that the agency’s Modified Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Homeless Street Families has registered more than 4,000 families in Metro Manila.
The report noted: “Of the said number, Soliman said the DSWD has yet to find housing for 1,250 families.”
“We can use the GSIS building as a temporary shelter for the families. We expect to finish repair work on the building this month,” Soliman said during the celebration of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) National Family Day at the Ultra complex in Ortigas, Pasig City.
We wonder, though, what heritage advocates will say about this?
Photo: Ivan Henares via Paulo Alcazaren
