How We Care: Sanitation and Health
Our meaningful intervention in building and caring for our host communities and its people has long been recognized by our stakeholders. Our efforts to eradicate Malaria in Brgy Macambol has been lauded by the LGU and the Department of Health when cases of malaria was reduced to zero from being the highest in the region if not in the entire Mindanao.
Our Social Development Management Program focuses on the improvement of child health and nutrition; we foresee the improvement of health services to include comprehensive maternal health and family planning. Our interventions on health problems that are specific to our host barangays will lead to accessible and equipped medical facilities, less occurrence of sickness and disease, and overall better health services.
Among our initiatives towards providing holistic community health and sanitation support include:
- The construction of a potable water system, water pumps, and provision of water-sealed sanitary toilets in every household
- Common garbage is disposed in pits constructed in mined-out areas; when this landfill is filled, it is covered in waste material. Contaminated waste such as tires, scraps, and drums are placed in dedicated junkyards and sold off to buyers.
- Loading, hauling, and crushing operations are located far from the residential areas to mitigate disturbance; night-time mining activities are scheduled far from the populated as well, with noise levels measured throughout the day to keep them within acceptable levels; spoil embankments have also been constructed to minimize the impact of noise pollution on the population
- Rehabilitation of over 180 malnourished children in Barangays Macambol and Cabuaya through community and school-based feeding programs
- Promotion and support for backyard gardening programs to provide adequate supplies of vegetables in the home and provide food security to poor families
- Senior Citizen assistance in the procurement of IDs and Purchase Booklets, medical missions, and optical services including the distribution of free reading glasses.
- Total elimination of Malaria in the area reducing the need for fumigation to twice a year.
- Dust control facilities and dust spraying operations minimize the suspended particles in the air to mitigate effects brought about by air pollutants