The DMCI Power Corporation (DPC) has recently turned over a water system to the barangay folks of Pinamarbuhan in the province of Masbate. The water system caters to some 580 households of Purok 2 and 3 who are all dependent to deep well, according to barangay captain Wenceslao Espiel.
The donation is part of DPC’s corporate social responsibility or CSR initiative and in support of Brgy. Pinamarbuhan officials in their quest to provide basic services and access to potable water supply to its communities.
“The students in our barangay now have longer time for their studies, parents can do household chores, their children can play longer and our workers will no longer have to wake up early just to fetch water from the deep well,” said Espiel during the turnover ceremony held last June 28, 2017.
Prior to this donation, members of the community need to walk 2-kilometers just to reach the main source of water.