Some people in Pasig thought their new mayor was off to a slow start, but when the lockdown threatened to starve poor, jobless families across Luzon, Pasig City had money to assist thousands of households not covered by the emergency cash subsidy.
that public school students’ families could use to buy food at local markets.
From Pasig, only 93,000 families made the DSWD’s list, leaving out some 127,000 other families living below the poverty line. Two, that list was from 2015, and as Mayor Sotto anticipated, there was quite a number of discrepancies: people on the list who no longer resided in the barangays they were listed under.
The Pasig City government then submitted an updated list to the DSWD’s national capital region office for its approval.yung request namin na support, nandoon sila agad,”Despite these difficulties, Pasig was among the first local governments to finish distributing the first tranche of the DSWD’s subsidy. They started in mid-April and finished on the first week of May.
Sotto just appealed to the well-to-do, including his neighbors in the posh Valle Verde subdivisions, to decline their share. If they do, the money saved will go to programs for the poor.yung mga maykaya o okay pa naman, na huwag na lang nilang tanggapin ’On May 5, Pasig CityBecause Sotto made the distribution of theChristmas goody bags in December double as a survey, the city government had a pretty updated list to work with.“So we literally went from house to house.
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