The latest events from Inabanga town
ASSISTING INB’S DISTRESS OFW. Mayor Roygie Jumamoy and Sangguniang Bayan (SB) Member Jono Jumamoy (photo 1) successfully connect through a video call with Genalyn T. Anuta (photo 2), a distress Worker Household Service in Saudi Arabia, last September 23, 2020. Also present during the virtual conversation are SB Member Romeld Estillore, Public Employment and Service Office (PESO) Manager Frank Baylosis Jr., Genalyn’s siblings, Berto and Litlit Anuta (photo 3) and her mother Norma Anuta (photo 4). The Anuta family asks assistance from teamINABANGA when Genalyn’s social media post went viral that she wants to go back home immediately. She has an expired contract and allegedly is not allowed by her employer to go home despite her repeated pleas. In her personal statement, she is blamed for an accident that resulted in a fractured leg of her employer’s PWD son, physically and verbally abused by her employer and locked in her room since September 16, 2020. team INABANGA has extended full support to the request of Genalyn and has already coordinated with the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) for immediate preliminary action. (Inabanga Communications and News Service / ICoNS)
PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD. Sangguniang Bayan (SB) Member Jono Jumamoy representing Mayor Roygie Jumamoy together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Integrated Natural Resources and Environment Management Project (DENR-INREMP) Project Manager Charlie E. Fabre (photo 1), SB Members and Lawis Inabangnon Livelihood and Fishermens Association (LILFA) headed by Alberto Eyas successfully held the launching and inauguration of a fishpen coral (photo 2) in Lawis, Inabanga last September 18, 2020. On the same day, a general merchandising store (photo 3) is also blessed and turned over by teamINABANGA witnessed by SB Members, Municipal Social Welfare and Development Officer Emma Samaco, Sustainable Livelihood Project (SLP) Project Development Officer Charito Gorni, Lawis Barangay Council headed by Punong Barangay Mimi Aupe and members of Lawis Sustainable Livelihood Project (SLP) Pantawid Association headed by its President Cielo Consad (photo 4). The fishpen coral is a vital source of fish produce of the Lawis fishermen while the general merchandising which is funded with a ₱300,000.00 from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and another of the same amount as teamINABANGA’s counterpart for its full completion and other needs is an important extra income of the SLP Pantawid members. Mayor Roygie conveys her gratitude to DENR-INREMP and the DSWD for the partnership and expresses her full support to these projects in line with her priority agricultural programs to augment the daily income of its beneficiaries and develop their entrepreneurial skills. (Inabanga Communications and News Service / ICoNS)
PRIORITIZING EMPLOYEE’S SAFETY. The Inabanga Department of Social Welfare and Development (photo 1) has been temporarily closed last September 23, 2020 until further notice after 15 of its employees get in contact with a first generation contact of Tubigon, Bohol’s 30th COVID-19 positive case, a driver for Department of Social Welfare and Development-7 Bohol Field Office. Provincial DSWD officers who has a direct contact with the driver before its confirmation came out visited Inabanga last September 23, 2020. As a precautionary measure, Mayor Roygie Jumamoy cordones the IDSWD building (photo 2) with its employees. They will be subjected to a Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Test in the coming days and will stay in the building to prevent further contamination with their daily needs well taken cared of. The following day, all offices in the municipal main building (photos 3 & 4) and the rest of the offices (photos 5 & 6) are thoroughly disinfected in compliance with established guidelines for the safety of all the employees and the transacting public. Mayor Roygie is not letting her guards down and treats this security breach seriously as teamINABANGA is trained to handle this crisis. (Inabanga Communications and News Service / ICoNS)