ALERT volunteers actively provide community services in Linamon

By Jun Enriquez

ALERT volunteers who are members and officers of the organization ready for providing feeding to children.

Linamon, Lanao del Norte – Active citizenship is great importance nowadays needed to extend voluntary services to communities. The Allied Linamon Response Team, Inc. or ALERT based in Linamon, Lanao del Norte is extending services on disaster response especially on rescue operation. They also provide services on feeding program to children. They also active on two-way radio communication to monitor the peace and order particularly in Linamon, Lanao del Norte to assist the local government and security sector.

Volunteer's Preparation stage

Myla Castro, Executive Vice President said just this day they conducted Feeding program for the children in all of the 8 barangays in Linamon, Lanao del Norte in partnership with the Julie’s bakeshop to establish branch soon in Linamon. This is their first engagement with the said bakeshop. There were 635 children in 14 day-care centers in 8 barangays. The feeding for children contained is in a form of snacks containing bread from Julie’s bakeshop and juice from ALERT. There were 20 volunteers, 11 males and 9 females including the 2 personnel from Julie’s bakeshop conducted the feeding program. The feeding program activity is part of the ALERT 6^th year anniversary on August 5, 2017.

Feeding to children at Bagy. Robocon 

Castro said other ALERT project is bay watch in the beaches of Linamon and some areas of Iligan bay. They have acquired one unit rescue speed boat equipped with life vests, rope, life buoy, spine band. They regularly conducted roving and sea patrol every weekends to watch the beach goers. ALERT was the beneficiary of the rescue equipment from the Bottom-up-budgeting (BUB) project from the Department of Interior and local Government (DILG) with project cost amounted to 300,000 pesos.

Feeding to children at Sitio Tilapas, Bagy. Poblacion

On May 28, 2017, they rescued a woman allegedly committed suicide including with her two children. Accordingly, they jumped from the bridge in Maigo, Lanao del Norte. The dead body of the woman was fished-out in the high seas of Maigo. The two children still unknown until today. On Easter Sunday in April this year, they also rescued the dead body of a man allegedly drunk was drowned in Samburon beach but it was already dead upon their retrieval.

Castro added that the ALERT volunteers will conduct relief operation on Saturday, August 5, 2017 in Balo-i, Lanao del Norte evacuation centers for the evacuees victims from Marawi crisis. They will assist the Philippine Coast Guard shipment of relief goods from Manila whose activity will coincide with their 6^th year anniversary. Published at Mindanao Gold Star Daily (MGSD) by Nora Soriño.