{"id":56955,"date":"2015-07-25T17:37:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T09:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=56955"},"modified":"2015-07-25T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T09:37:24","slug":"kalayaan-residents-in-west-philippines-sea-receive-basic-needs-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/25\/kalayaan-residents-in-west-philippines-sea-receive-basic-needs-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalayaan residents in West Philippines Sea receive basic needs, facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49316\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Picture-1-Kalayaan-islands.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49316\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Picture-1-Kalayaan-islands.png\" alt=\"Kalayaan island (Photo courtesy of the Municipal Government of Kalayaan) \" width=\"558\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Picture-1-Kalayaan-islands.png 558w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Picture-1-Kalayaan-islands-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalayaan island (Photo courtesy of the Municipal Government of Kalayaan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PUERTO PRINCESA CITY &#8212; Residents of the Kalayaan island town in the disputed West Philippines Sea received Thursday basic needs facilities from different government and non-government organizations for potable drinking water production.<\/p>\n<p>Donated to the residents were 10 pieces of bacteria-free water tanks, canned goods, and two solar water desalination units.<\/p>\n<p>Kalayaan Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon, who joined the military sortie to the West Philippines Sea, expressed gratitude for the donations that would help 130 residents, or around 20 households.<\/p>\n<p>He said that one of the problems on Pag-asa Island, Kalayaan is potable water, electricity, and agricultural products since residents are very far from the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Being surrounded by water also makes it hard for them to find safe drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the provincial government of Palawan assured that it is doing everything to ensure that development projects would also reach Kalayaan.<\/p>\n<p>Plans are now underway for the possibility of constructing a rural health unit (RHU) that would take care of the well-being of the residents, as well as provide basic medical intervention, Bito-onon said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the RHU is very much needed on the island because just like everyone, residents are also susceptible to ailments.<\/p>\n<p>Bito-onon furthered that his administration is now checking out transportation proposals as plans of opening Pag-asa Island to tourism gains ground.<\/p>\n<p>However, the mayor did not detail their tourism outlook for Kalayaan yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUERTO PRINCESA CITY &#8212; Residents of the Kalayaan island town in the disputed West Philippines Sea received Thursday basic needs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":49316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-archie-t-barone","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}