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Land area: 6, 4000,000 sq. meters
Total Population: 2,777
Total no. of Households: 404`
Barangay 64, or the BLISS Housing Project of Sagkahan, Tacloban
City is divided into 3 clusters which were subdivided into
7 purok. Houses are made up of semi-concrete and concrete
materials while there are some makeshift houses that are
built between boundaries of Barangay 64 and the next Barangay.
Only 15% of the residents own the lot where their houses
are built. The other 85% are still fighting against the
National Housing Authority for increasing the rent. The
NHA decided to increase the rent after they held control
of the land which was donated to the residents during the
Marcos regime through the then first lady, Imelda Marcos.
During that time, the residents were only paying P30 monthly.
The lot owners filed a case against the NHA but until now,
the case is still in court.
The Barangay is accessible to all kinds of transportation
and is a 15-minute ride to the downtown area of Tacloban.
Also, the Barangay is accessible to all means of communications
like telephone,television, radio, computers, newspapers
(local and national), etc.
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Economically, the types of income-generating activities of the residents
vary:
• MCH and PUJ drivers 25% |
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Vendors 20%
• Professionals (government employees,
doctors, private employees, etc.) 50%
• Skilled workers (barbers, manicurist,
laundry woman, etc.) 10%
• Unemployed comprises 15% of the total
populace.
Barangay 64 has a detention hall, a Barangay clinic, 2 basketball
courts (though the other needs renovation), a Barangay hall,
and a Barangay Police outpost. Water source in the Barangay
come from piped water system with 402 families using it, and
the other 2 families uses deep well.
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The
most common types of sickness in the area are cold, fever,
and cough. However, there are 10 reported cases of tuberculosis
in the Barangay among adult persons.
Lack of vitamins is the
most common reason for malnourishment in the Barangay. 10%
of the total children population is moderately malnourished
while 5 children are severely malnourished. A Barangay Health
Worker also points out that insufficient and unbalanced food
diet is among the reasons for malnutrition. Children weighed
status are above normal 9, normal, 166, and below normal 17.
The Barangay Clinic conducts,
on irregular basis, feeding programs to address malnourishment
in the locality. Also, the city government carries out medical
missions in the Barangay that provides check-up and treatment
for minor cases of sickness.
Students of Remedios
Trinidad Romualdez (RTR) Medical Foundation launch a sponsorship
program to some selected indigent residents that will be provided
with medical assistance coming from their school. These give
chance to the indigent inhabitants to avail of medical services
without pay.
The Barangay Clinic has
1 stethoscope for blood pressure, 1 pre-natal table, and provides
services for Blood and sputum examination. The services provided
are check-up for minor cases of sickness, immunization, and
pre-natal check-up. For 2003, the clinic had children immunized
with 33 for BCG, 39 for DPT 1, 38 DPT 2, 31 DPT 3, 31 for
Polio 1, 30 for Polio 2, 18 for Polio 3, and 18 against measles.
Last year, there is only
1 reported case of infant death; this is due to internal infection.
Most pregnant women in the locality seeks professional service
upon child delivery, an estimated 5% of the total pregnant
women prefers traditional health practitioner for child delivery.
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The
youth in the community hardly participates in the over-all barangay
development plan. Only the Sangguniang Kabataan chairman represents
the youth in the Barangay planning and he only posts an ad in
the Barangay hall for any youth activities.
The youth are only active with the sports activities in the
community, other than that they hardly cooperate with the
Barangay activities. An estimated 2% of the youth populace
is into early marriage.
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required by the city government to create projects on Gender
and Development, the Barangay councilor assigned on health
starts to organize the women in the community. However, there
is no specific project yet since they are just starting to
organize. Generally, the organization aims to fight cases
on violence against women and organize projects on livelihood
to maximize their productivity.
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Drug
addiction in the locality is very prevalent, though this condition
toned down after a number of drug pushers in the barangay were
arrested. Because of the incident, the Barangay Council implemented
a curfew that starts at 9pm and an ordinance prohibiting anyone
from gambling and drinking liquor outside their homes. But a
few residents still violate this ordinance. Aside from implementing
the curfew hours, the Barangay Council is encouraging sports
activities to divert the attention of these drug users, especially
the youth.
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A
total of 31 out-of-school youth is present in the Barangay with
age range from 19-15 years old. While an estimated 2% of the
adult populace was deemed illiterates. Aside from these cases,
majority of the residents are literates and able to read and
write.
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