10/05/2008 [ tribune.net.ph ]
Vice President and Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council Chairman Noli de Castro began the relocation of informal settlers from the Parañaque segment of Southrail with the transfer of the first five families to their new homes in Laguna.
Following months of social preparation, the five families were formally welcomed to the Southville V resettlement site in Barangay Timbao, Biñan, Laguna on Sept. 22 with a program led by the Vice President together with Mayor Florencio Bernabe Jr. and former Vice Mayor Tomas Banaga Jr. of Parañaque City; Mayor Marlyn Alonte-Naguiat of Biñan, and National Housing Authority general manager Federico Laxa.
Southville V is one of the relocation sites established for the families affected by the Northrail and Southrail Linkage Project under the Philippine National Railways (PNR) rehabilitation and modernization program.
The relocatees from Parañaque joined 754 families who have already been relocated in Southville V from various communities along the PNR track.
For the provision of basic services, Southville V developer Baque Development Corp. donated to the local government of Biñan a total of 4,924 sq. meters of land as a site for a school, day care center, police station, basketball court and health center.
The developer also committed to put up the buildings for these facilities.
Bernabe Jr. committed to send his city’s Livelihood Group to provide trainings to the relocated families in Southville V to address concerns on source of income.
The Vice President later proceeded to Southville V-A to receive another set of five railway families from Biñan segment of PNR and to inaugurate the recently completed community facilities, including a day care center, barangay hall cum police outpost and a barangay health center.
Site developer Goldenville Realty Development Corp. donated four multicabs for the transportation requirement of the relocatees.
De Castro lauded the developers for their donations that go beyond what is required of them for the development project. PNA
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