DAVAO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) inaugurated the
Mindanao Resource and Operations Center (DSWD-MROC) at the DSWD Regional Rehabilitation Complex in Bago Oshiro, Tugbok District here.
The center has a budget of P19.8 million and was constructed by the Department of Public Works and Highways-Davao City District Engineering Office (DPWH-DCDEO).
MROC can hold up to 60,000 family food packs at a given time using the rack piling system.
DSWD Secretary Corazon Soliman said the warehouse is “set to respond to a bigger scale of disaster operations.”
“If at some point, the operations at the National Resource Operations Center (NROC) in Pasay City is hampered due to flooding or earthquake or any other disaster, the Mindanao hub can then supply the needs of the affected populace in the National Capital Region. In the same manner, the warehouses in Visayas and Luzon can also augment the needs of Mindanao regions when necessary,” Soliman said.
DSWD said it will also construct warehouses in Cebu and Clark Air Base in Pampanga. (davaotoday.com)
