MARAWI CITY The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) formally wrapped up its Rebuilding Marawi Project with the Handover of Community Management and Permanent Shelters on Thursday (May 19). The culminating event was held at Hadiya Village in Barangay Dulay West this city. In
NEW HOUSES. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme will end its Rebuilding Marawi Project in Marawi City on May 30, 2022 with 1,000 permanent houses for families displaced during the five-month siege in 2017. The agency known as UN-Habitat received funding from the Japanese government. (PNA photo by Divina M. Suson) MARAWI CITY - For a 38-year-old mother of nine, life five years after the siege here is way better than before they were displaced because of the five-month battle between the government and ISIS-linked extremists. Anisah Bariga, her husband, and their children aged between 17 to 5 months old occupy one of the 109 permanent housing units in Hadiya Village in Barangay Dulay West. They transferred here in February last year, a shelter she calls "our own", vacating the house of a kind relative some four kilometers away from Dulay West. When they fled during the siege, they first stayed for six months in a school that served as evacuation center in Saguiaran,
Through the Japanese government’s $10-million funding support, the houses were built on land procured and developed by the Social Housing Finance Corporation and the National Housing Authority.
NEW HOUSES. A family displaced by the 2017 Marawi siege in their new community at Marawi Resettlement Site Phase 1: Hadiya Village, Barangay Dulay West. A total of 109 permanent houses constructed by the UN Habitat were inaugurated in the area last February 2021. (Photo courtesy of UN-Habitat) MANILA - A total of 1,000 permanent houses were awarded to Marawi residents as the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) caps its housing project in the city on Thursday. The Rebuilding Marawi Project, funded by the Japanese government, started four years ago to support internally displaced families affected by the 2017 siege with the last 462 houses awarded during a handover event Thursday (May 19). The houses were built on land procured and developed by Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) and National Housing Authority (NHA) through a USD10 million funding given by Japan. Prior to the siege, the 1,000 families lived within the three to six meters easement along the Agus
Marawi City, May 19, 2022 – The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) formally wraps up the implementation of the Rebuilding Marawi Project