The Crisis
Intervention Unit or CIU in Boracay will be open 24/7.
This followed after
Malay Municipal Social Development Welfare Officer Magdalena Prado formally presented
the official opening of the CIU at the Boracay Action Center.
It can now be
used a s a shelter of those who are in need of assistance and has no place to
stay in while the MSWD is working on how they can be returned to their
families, or have a certain individual, entrusted to them, turned over to the appropriate authority.
According to
Prado the CIU have guards on shifts to ensure that the shelter is not left
unattended.
The Officer
added they also have a fund set aside for food for the unit’s residents.
Meanwhile, this
is also an answer to the problem of the Police Force, as they now have a
certain place to turn over the children caught for violating regulations.
Previously,
aside from minors who were apprehended due to violations of the curfew, there
are also some children in Boracay who were involved in crimes.
Some are victims
of violence while others are separated from their parents and were left to the care
of the Social Worker.
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