It was just last June 22, 2018, that the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office had sat down together with the esteemed group of the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF) situated at Clark, Pampanga to tackle about future partnership, in lieu of the Local Governments vision of a safe and resilient City.
The initial meeting with the technical staff of the PDRF with the Baliwag delegates Alvin Lee Asuro (MDRRMO), Gerard Mhel Tolentino (SWO-III), Dr. Nordivince Legaspi (Rural Health Physician) and Ms. Brenda Bernardo (Project Development Officer III) focused on the mobilization of the people at the grassroot level and development of appropriate programs and activities through community involvement and private sector engagement.
The series of consultation and brainstorming of the two parties are set to resume this July for the program design devoted in equipping not only the Local Government of Baliwag in handling and preparing for disasters but as well as the overall empowerment of all Baliwagenyo’s in both the private and public sector, and of such the basic unit of the society, the Family.