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By EDD K. USMAN | @edd1819 | @bluestar0910 | SDN -- Science and Digital News

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(SDN) --  The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is sending 30 truckloads of humanitarian assistance to Typhoon Odette's victims.

Interior Minister Naguib G. Sinarimbo and Social Work Minister Raissa Jajurie sent off the relief goods worth more than Php13 million.

Interior Minister Naguib G. Sinarimbo and Social Work Minister Raissa Jajurie stand before a truck with loads of relief goods for Dinagat Islands, Surigao del Norte, for affected residents because of Typhoon Odette. (Photos via MILG)

""We sent off today (December 23) the solidarirty mission of the Bangsamoro Government to the victims of Typhoon Odette consisting of 30 truckloads of relief goods totalling 13 Million pesos. This is our expression of sympathy and solidarity with our brethren in Northern Mindanao and the Visayas," said Sinarimbo, head of the Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MILG).

It can be recalled the Bangsamoro parliamentary government has been sending humanitarian assistance to Luzon and the Visayas and other parts of Mindanao in times of calamities or disasters.

On January 21, 2021, the BARMM's Rapid Emergency Action on Disaster Incidence (READI) under the MILG sent a convoy of relief goods from Cotabato City, seat of the Bangsamoro government, to Batangas province in Luzon for the victims of the Taal Volcano.

Sinarimbo emphasized the assistance is for Muslims and Christians and Indigenous People (IP) affected by calamities.

"May this assistance ease your suffering and strengthen your resolve to build back better knowing that your 'kababayans' (countrymen) in the Bagsamoro are one with you," the MILG head said of the assistance for Odette's victims in Dinagat Islands in Surigao del Norte.

He said the Ministry of Social Work and Development (MSSD) provided 125,000 kilos of rice, 1,600 water containers, 3,200 boxes of water purifier tablets for the aid.

At the send-off ceremony on December 23, BARMM Chief Minister Al-Hajj Murad Ebrahim formally launched the "Tulong para sa Dinagat Islands" initiative as his office also sent 1,500 personal hygiene kits for the families displaced by the typhoon.

All in all the relief goods -- food and no-food -- amounted to 10 tons. (✓)

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Featured image shows convoy of trucks bound for Dinagat Islands loaded with relief goods in front of BARMM Headquarters.