Social services

Persons with hearing and physical disabilities get help

The City Social Welfare and Development Office of Tagum City in partnership with Davao Jubilee Foundation provide social services to residents with hearing and mobility handicap this October.

About 50 hearing aids and 20 prostheses was allocated to deafs and amputees of these city residents respectively during the assessment which devices they will get by November although a hundred walk-ins showed up during the screening..

Although the walk-ins were unregistered beneficiaries still they were extended medical assessment to determine the degree of their hearing loss and sizes of the prostheses. Ms. Cheryl Arellano, the manager of the foundation committed to do their best in securing additional funding for the said assistive devices even as she said they want to extend also quality social service for other walk-in clients.

She thanked the local government unit of Tagum headed by Mayor Allan Rellon for collaborating with them for years, saying that she's happy that the scale of the activity is bigger than expected.

Mayor Allan L. Rellon meets with the beneficiaries as they are being assessed to ensure that they are comfortable during the whole process of the medical assessment held recently at the atrium of the city hall in partnership with City Social Welfare and Development Office of Tagum and Davao Jubilee Foundation. Photo by Kareen Gomez/CIO Tagum

A second batch of physical assessment and hearing test is being planned out for those who weren't accommodated during the first screening.


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