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Red Cross to use ‘sweat equity‘ in building shelters at relocation sites Cong B. Corrales, InterAksyon.com January 5, 2012 CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — The government and non-government organizations are now moving toward easing out Sendong survivors from a “patronage attitude” to “owning back their dignity” by rebuilding their lives through “sweat equity.” “We are…

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Red Cross to use ‘sweat equity‘ in building shelters at relocation sites
Cong B. Corrales, InterAksyon.com
January 5, 2012

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — The government and non-government organizations are now moving toward easing out Sendong survivors from a “patronage attitude” to “owning back their dignity” by rebuilding their lives through “sweat equity.”

“We are not a dole-out society and the patronage attitude toward rebuilding their lives will not help the flood survivors,” said Philippine Red Cross-Crescent chairman Richard Gordon in a press conference here Wednesday.

Gordon said Xavier University gave another two hectares to its original donation of five hectares in Barangay Lumbia. He said this would mean 400 more shelter units could be built on the identified relocation site. The entire relocation site will be subdivided into 50-hectare lots.

“With a seven-hectare relocation site, we can now build 1,400 shelter units which means we can move more families out of the evacuation centers faster and earlier. We will start building the shelters two weeks from today,” he said.

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