The Alliance of Broadcasting Committee, the group behind the Padayona Inday Sara Negros movement, remains committed to support Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, this time as vice presidential aspirant in the May 2022 elections.
Retired P/Col. William Señoron, who is the ABC convenor, yesterday said that they will continue to support Duterte-Carpio, despite her decision to run for vice president, although there was also an overwhelming support for her to run for president.
Señoron said that their movement will continue its outreach programs all over the province, with Mary Grace Lucasan, a former overseas Filipino worker, who is a resident of Barangay Cruz, Calatrava, as their latest beneficiary.
Assisted by the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office of Calatrava, Señoron said they delivered grocery items to Lucasan, who is now engaged in a sari-sari store business in order to feed her family.
“We offered assistance by providing her a source of livelihood to support her children,” he added.
Señoron expressed hope that the assistance received by Lucasan will serve as an instrument to rebuild their lives and become a long-term source of income for the family. He thanked Calatrava Mayor Marilyn Era, the local police, and Barangay Captain Crisanta Agravante for partnering with the ABC Padayona Inday Sara in the endeavor.
Lucasan was teary-eyed as the sari-sari store items were brought inside her home, he added.
“Thank you so much for the help you brought to us, for coming here to help us. I thought we would never find hope amid the hardships. I don’t have a source of living to raise my children,” she said in the local dialect.
The latest activity was one of the numerous programs that ABC is undertaking in line with the group’s efforts to support Duterte-Carpio, he added. — GB
