A gitna ng krisis na pinagdaraanan ngayon ng bansa dulot ng mapaminsalang COVID- 19, hindi nag-atubiling magparaya ang bayan ng Sadanga sa Mountain Province sa mga kababayan na higit na nangangailangan.

Sa kanyang Facebook page, ipinaalam ni Mayor Gabino P. Ganggangan ng bayan ng Sadanga na hindi makikibahagi ang kanilang bayan sa relief packs na ipinadala ng

DSWD region para sa mga lokal na pamahalaan na humihingi ng ayuda ng pamahalaang nasyunal sa gitna ng epekto ng krisis sa COVID-19.

Pero paglilinaw ni Mayor Ganggangan, ang kanilang pagtanggi ay hindi nangangahulugan na walang mahihirap o nangangailangan ng tulong sa kanilang lugar.

Bagkus, naniniwala siya sa kakayahan nilang suportahan at tulungan ang bawat isa na bahagi ng kanilang kultura.

Tunay ngang sa gitna ng mga pagsubok at trahedya, umuusbong ang magagandang balita na nagpapakita ng malasakit at paglingap sa kapwa.

Narito ang public notice na ibinahagi ni Mayor Ganggangan sa kanyang mga kababayan sa pamamagitan ng kanyang Facebook page:

Gabino P. Ganggangan

A Public Notice
(March 30,2020)

Today i was informed by our MSWDO that some relief food packs sent by the DSWD region are now available at the PDRRM office
in Bontoc for lgu’s that might be requesting.

However i decided and instructed our MSWDO to relay our message that our municipality will not be availing of these food packs even if the lockdown will be extended.

Its not that we don’t have poor and needy families but i believe that we as tribal communities still have and should sustain our “built in” and homegrown or indigenous social structure,values,and practice of taking care of our respective relatives or kins, neighbors ,or kailyan in distress during hard times or economic crisis.

It is during these kinds of economic hardships such as “food shortages”, hunger and famine that the “richer or better of” ( kadangyans) among a clan or village are expected to aid their needy relatives by lending their surpluses.

Should this crisis extend longer to the extent that our needy families really run out of their rice supplies, we shall mandate the kadangyans of every barangay to open up their rice granaries ( agamangs) to sustain us through to the next harvest season.
I assure that no family shall go hungry in our municipality even during these hardtimes.

Let the Nat’l Gov”t feed those more needy urban poors in the cities and those less fortunate in other areas who can’t sustain themselves, while we sustain ourselves while we can.

Again i enjoin every one to cooperate with our efforts to shield our municipality from this Covid 19.