Glan, Sarangani – “The greatest heart is that of a volunteer.” Jovita Piscos, a former elementary school teacher said in an interview when asked what drives her to serve the community.

Piscos was a public elementary school teacher for 4 decades in her hometown in barangay Kapatan. After retirement, she sees another challenging role to join as community volunteer in their village through Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI CIDSS) of DSWD.

Piscos said, “Oportunidad ang aking nakita na matuto ng ibang skills at muling makapagserbisyo sa aking komunidad. Dahil sa KALAHI CIDSS muling nanumbalik ang saya ko”.

Recently, she witnessed the turnover ceremony of the rehabilitation of box culvert amounting to P638,396.02 benefitting 160 households.

Kris Moris Guerrero, Area Coordinator expressed her appreciation for the community and volunteers they worked with.

“Sauna maulaw gyud na sila maningog mam pero karun may courage na sila na ipoint out ang kulang sa barangay ug ang mayo pa sa ilaha pangitaan gyud na nila’g paagi na matarong through connecting with other agencies”, said Guerrero.

In Glan, four other barangays also completed their sub-project implementations: brgy. Small Margus constructed a temporary quarantine facility with a total cost of P674,490.46.

Same subproject was constructed by brgy. Laguimit amounting to P682,153.37. While brgy. Glan Padidu and Calabanit completed the concreting of barangay road amounting to P812,715.12 and P1,020,638.26 respectively.

Glan’s local government unit also provided counterpart contributions to each project.

KALAHI-CIDSS is one of the banner projects of the department that utilizes the Community Driven Development strategy in implementing sub-projects in the community. The project allows the communities to handle the funds for the project that would solve their problems and community volunteers are utilized to have a hands-on experience in implementing the sub-projects.