Dagupan Mayor to help parolees, probationers

DAGUPAN CITY – The mayor here exhorted the more than a hundred members of the Probation and Parole Administration (PPA) in Central Pangasinan to just inform her office through the City Social Welfare Development Office if they need livelihood and scholarship for their children.

Probationers and parolees in the 4th Congressional District of Pangasinan flank the staff of the Probation and Parole Administration lead by  Audie Mar D. Ubaldo, Jonathan Ortega of ABS-CBN, Christina Reyes and her companion from the Volunteer Probation Assistants during the second rounds of the livelihood skills training on therapeutic massage held at the Mayor’s Pavillon in Brgy. Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City.

“Sabihin ninyo lang po misis ninyo o kayo. Bukas po ang Dagupan City’s City Social Welfare & Development, handa pong tumolong sa inyo. Iyan po ang ilagay ninyo sa isip ninyo,” Mayor Belen T. Fernandez declared amid the rounds of applause by the members of the PPA who came from various towns and this city that is part of the Fourth Congressional District and two towns in the Third Congressional District in Pangasinan.

Audie Mar D. Ubaldo, the chief of the PPA in Central Pangasinan, lauded Mayor Fernandez’s gesture for the members of the PPA who attended the Brigada Eskuela at the public elementary school in Barangay Bonuan Boquig.

“Magandang tulong. Kaya lang tanungin natin kung sino talaga nanganga-ilangan e assess naming mabuti kung sino mga deserving na dapat tulungan,” he stressed.

Ubaldo appealed to the mayor to allow the members of the PPA to use for free the Mayor’s Pavillion in Barangay Bonuan Gueset for half – day once a month of their regular activity.

“During the previous years e pinapayagan naman kami doon to occupy monthly for free. Two months ago wala na,” he cited.

Since several months ago they could not hold their activity at the Pavillion as the administrator there told them that it was being prepared for this city’s local government activities.