00:00Some 800 inner-city families devastated and displaced by an infernal blaze in the Tondo district over the weekend
00:06felt immense relief and joy in today's presidential visit
00:10that left them with a bundle of help in cash and in kind to tie them over the next several days.
00:15Arclezo Pardiglia on a great sense of hope the refugees had as they began to rebuild their lives
00:20spurred on by the president's gesture of compassion and sense of care.
00:24Shefa is expecting her baby this November, but the house she lives in
00:32and all the items she prepared for her unborn child were destroyed in a fire.
00:42Shefa is among the nearly 8,000 residents in Tondo, Manila, affected by the massive fire last Saturday, September 13.
00:50The blaze raged for 10 hours, turning hundreds of houses in happy land into ashes.
00:58The affected families are temporarily sheltered at Antonio J. Villegas Vocational High School
01:04and General Visadalim Elementary School, both personally visited by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
01:11The chief executive distributed boxes of food, hygiene supplies, and sleeping kits.
01:17Each family also received P15,000 in cash aid with a total reaching P33,000,000.
01:25Hindi lahat ng pamilya, pare-pareho ang pangangailangan.
01:29Meron yung may bata, may sanggol, meron yung mga mats matanda.
01:34Kaya't iba-iba, kaya't nagbibigay po kami ng cash para merong kayong gagamitin
01:39para sa sarili nyong pangangailangan para sa pamilya ninyo.
01:42Maraming salamat kasi, nakatulong siya ng maraming tao na sunodan.
01:48The president assured the victims that once they are able to return to happy land,
01:53the government will help them rebuild their hopes.
01:56Asahan po ninyo, ang gobyerno ninyo nandito, binabantayan kayo, inaalalayan kayo,
02:03at titiyaki namin na maaalagaan namin kayo.
02:06Kaleiza Pardilia, for the New and Better Philippines.
