DILG will start building treatment centers for rebel returnees

Secretary Eduardo Año, head of the DILG. (Photo: NIÑO JESUS ​​ORBETA / Philippine Daily Inquirer)

The Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will start building more treatment centers for rebel returnees, Secretary Eduardo said Tuesday Año, responsible for the DILG. Construction is in preparation for the so-called localized peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).

This type of negotiation, however, has already been sabotaged by communist rebels who led an armed revolution. in the countryside for nearly five decades

Año stated that treatment centers, or transition houses, are temporary residences, which are new structures, established in places under local administrations that would require such facilities.

a place for "rehabilitation and healing sessions and educational and vocational training activities."

"A halfway house will serve as a reintroduction of former rebels to society" ño said in a statement. "Here we will try to equip them with vocational training."

"That's why it's important for our LGU partners to have this type of training," he added in Filipino. an aid of 5 million pesos for each transition house to be built under the Enhanced Local Integration Program (E-CLIP).

Local administrations will receive assistance only after meeting the procedural requirements, including a comprehensive assessment of the government of the heavily urbanized city, signing a memorandum of understanding, and presentation of a project proposal and supporting documents.

Nine provinces have already donated funds to build treatment centers in Kalinga, Mountain Mountain, Masbate, Negros Oriental, Northern Samar Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato and North Cotabato.

For the past three years, the DILG has released 59.7 million pesos as immediate aid to 471 former rebels. Peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the NDF were to take place on 28 June in Oslo, Norway, but no did not materialize after the cancellation of President Rodrigo Duterte. the negotiations. / je / atm

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