ELM FB Live features Imus LGU's projects for senior citizens

By Ruel B. Francisco October 24, 2020 (Photo from Mayor Emmanuel L. Maliksi FB Pag...

By Ruel B. Francisco
October 24, 2020

(Photo from Mayor Emmanuel L. Maliksi FB Page)

IMUS, Cavite - Celebrating the elderly's role and contributions highlighted the Senior Citizens' Week , featuring the programs and projects launched by the city government.

The pilot episode of the Mayor Emmanuel L. Maliksi's (ELM) Facebook Live featured Ms. Luzviminda 'Minda' Elbinias, President of the Imus Senior Citizens Association, Inc. (IMUSCAI) as discussant.



Among these programs was the EON ImusCAI, a membership card that also serves as a debit card where cash subsidies from the LGU will be credited directly and used to pay for transactions in groceries, supermarkets, and drugstores.

Through the EON ImusCAI, financial transactions will be much easier and safer for 27,408 SCs in the city.



Aside from cash subsidies, the city government also launched the Online Kamustahan program, where senior citizens learned how to use electronic gadgets for virtual communication that gives them a venue to air their concerns and other matters. These tables were handed over to the association.

The LGU also launched the Kakanindahan program, where special native delicacies made by the senior citizens will be sold online under the 'Grannies Best' brand to provide them an alternative livelihood that highlights their innate cooking skills, with the support of the YES Coop.



Health and wellness is part of the program of the LGU for the SCs especially during this pandemic thus, NutriTea health drink, a special organic concoction developed by Dr. Algie Bacla, Plant Manager of Greensoul Health and Wellness Corp. was distributed to all SCs to boost their immune system.

Meanwhile, Mayor Maliksi and Vice Mayor Ony Cantimbuhan personally congratulated Atty. Aurora 'Auring' Sayoc-Abella on her 100th birthday last October 7, in a mass held at the Imus Cathedral.



The Sangguniang Panglungsod honoured her for being the oldest living councilor who served the city and granted her the P100,000 incentive cheque from the city government. (Ruel Francisco/Imus City Information Office)