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SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga, North Luzon — The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF)-North Luzon regional office has reached out to fire victims in Barangay Santa Lucia in this city.
Upon learning of the incident, NCMF-North Luzon Regional Director Atty. Bai Raihanah Sarah T. Macarimpas-Pacasum sent words to the Pampanga Field Office to extend assistance to the families who lost their homes and properties in the blaze.
Atty. Abbas Macadatar is head of the NCMF-North Luzon Pampanga Field Office.
A fire slashed through a community in Barangay Sta. Lucia where many Muslim families are residents. Muslims from Mindanao are scattered in many parts of Luzon, the Philippines’ biggest of its three main islands — the second of which is Visayas — mostly engaged in trade and business — buying and selling goods and crafts.
Central Mindanao’s decades of fighting between rebel members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have forced Moro families to abandon their homes, properties, animals, and businesses driven by the internecine conflict that pitted Filipinos against Filipinos.
As a result, communities of Muslims are now settled in many parts of Luzon and the Visayas.
Now they have settled in their Luzon communities, building mosques, houses, and growing their families.
It’s good that the NCMF with its Central Office in Quezon City, Metro Manila, has regional offices and provincial offices in all the country’s regions to cater to and look after its constituents, not only Muslims but also Christians.
One of the regional offices is NCMF-North Luzon with Headquarters in Baguio City, Cordillera Region.
Thus, answering the call for emergency relief assistance, Pampanga Field Office Provincial Director Macadatar lost no time in mounting a humanitarian mission for the fire victims.
A report by Dr. Dimapuno A. Datu-Ramos, director of the Bureau of External Relations (NCMF-BER) showed the fire occurred at around 4:30 p.m. on October 12. Five Muslim families were among the unfortunate families to be in the line of the disaster.
On October 19, Macadatar led by distribution of relief assistance conducted at Man’s Gold Street, Purok 14, Barangay Sta. Lucia.
Others from the Pampanga Field Office who helped in the relief operation were were NCMF staff, Chief Sitti Divina Roxas, Annaliza Mamalimping, Indawan Ibra, Noronisa Zacaria, and Ustadhz Nasser Mimbala.
Meanwhile, Regional Director Macarimpas-Pacasum expressed her thanks to Cagayan Gov. Manuel N. Mamba for helping a Muslim in dire need of assistance.
It was learned that Mamba extended a financial assistance worth Php15,000 to Macaombao Panda whose wife suffered a miscarriage recently.
Muslims in Luzon under the jurisdiction of NCMF-North Luzon can continue to expect attention from the Office of Macarimpas-Pacasum. (/)