Aimed at providing assistance for faster recovery, the Ministry of Human Settlements and Development, the Housing Arm of the BARMM, through the Marawi Satellite Office of the MHSD Minister, helped the victims of the fire that happened in Sagonsongan, Marawi City on June 10, 2023.

Understanding their basic and most important needs, the MHSD provided each of the 25 afflicted households with 25 kilos rice and PHP1,000 distributed at the MHSD Provincial Office in Lanao del Sur on June 15, 2023.

According to Juhary Pacasum, Sagonsongan Area President, the 25 families’ houses sustained partial to complete damages and they have taken shelter in the Sagonsongan Shelter Area 6-A in Marawi City. Those with partial damages have remained in Sagonsongan, while those with complete damages temporarily moved in with relatives.

“As workers in the Bangsamoro government, we have to exert all efforts to be of help to our people during times of calamities and acute needs. Thus, our office has always been doing that so that our constituents can always feel the presence of the Bangsamoro government that serves them at all times,” Minister Atty. Hamid Aminoddin D. Barra said.

The Sagonsongan Temporary Resettlement Area is one of many transitory temporary shelter areas built for internally displaced people from the 2017 Marawi Siege who are still unable to return to their homes in the Most Affected Areas.

The MHSD currently has ongoing construction of a total of 450 of housing units from a total of 850 housing units for resettlement projects across Lanao del Sur, funded under the Bangsamoro Appropriations Act 2020, GAAB 2021-2022 and Special Development Fund 2020, currently being monitored by the Ministry’s LDS Provincial Office, led by Director Benjamin D. Alangca, EnP, RF.