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BasecoI. Brief HistoryBaseco consists of Engineers island; Engineers island and the breakwater communities have an area of about 52 hectares. Important events came to the area. Last august 2001, the community was declared as one of the KALAHI area (Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan) by DSWD. Barangay 649 was proclaimed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Presidential Proclamation 145, declaring Baseco open for disposition to actual residents of the community of January 18, 2002, Ordinance 7931 declaring 52 Hectares of land be awarded to actual BASECO residents.II. Community Profile

a. GEOGRAPHICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FIGURES

1. LOCATION AND BOUNDARIES Location: Barangay649 Zone 68, Bagong Lupa Port Area, District V Manila CityBoundaries: North: DelpanEast: IntramurosWest: Manila BaySouth: Port Area2. STATISTICSa. Population as of December 2010.Total Structures: 8,984Total No. of Families: 10,712Total Population: 51,060b. Age Level:Below 12 years old: 12,79013 14 years old: 9,21015 17 years old: 8,58818 24 years old: 7,31625 39 years old: 5,44840 49 years old: 3,65250 59 years old: 3,21460 above years old: 842

c. MARGINALIZED SECTOR (registered in MDSW Office)Older Person: 513Solo Parents: 150PWD:: 80

3. LAND AREA AND ECOLOGICAL SITUATIONTotal land area of barangay 649 Zone 68 : 54 HectaresArea Visited: OS and APLAYA

4. ECONOMIC CONDITION1. Primary and secondary Source of income

PRIMARY Fishing Vending Scavenging Tricycle/ Pedicab Driving Piers

SECONDARY Construction Worker/ Laborer OFW Government/ Private Employee Truck/ Private Employee Security Guard2. Average Monthly income of the Family 10,712 Households as of Dec. 2010Php 1,000.00 and below : 483Php 1,001.00 5,000.00: 3,9415. Housing Conditiona. Tenure StatusOwner: 5,770Renter: 2,800Sharer: 250Rent Free: 195No Census (late entry): 1,697b. Housing Condition 8,984 as of Dec. 2010 Concrete: 228Semi-Concrete: 3,566Make-Shift: 5,190c. No of Structures w/o CR: 4000 more or less

6. Community ResourcesResourcesGovernmentNGOsRemarks

1. Daycare Centers/ Learning CenterDay Care Center/ Learning Center (7)- World Mission Community- Hope World Wide- Open Heart Found- Sibol- Lingap Pangkabataan- Christ Mission Church- San Juan Bautista

2. School Elementary High School TechnicalBASECO E.SCorazon Aquino H.S.Escuella Taller

3. ChurchSan Juan BautistaSub-Parish, San Nicholas Chapel, Mother Teresa Chapel, La Consolacion ChapelMost Holy Name Jesus Chapel, Iglesia ni Cristo

4. Hospitals/ Health CentersBASECO Health Center, Corazon Aquino Lying in and Health Center

5. Police StationsPolice Community Precinct

6. Fire Stations/ Volunteer Brigade

7. MarketTalipapa, Corazon Aquino Public Market

7. Political Condition1. BARANGAY COUNCILChairman:Hon. Kristo E. HispanoBarangay Kagawad:Editha A. CastilloMary Joy V. CampeneraLanie V. CantilangDiana E. EspinosaJose V. AdrianoMarkdolph J. NavaltaEdmundo B. CayananSecretary:Rowena Imperial DuhilagTreasurer: Gerry D. PidoBrgy. Admin. Officer: Reynaldo L. Campanera

1.a. Barangay Council for the protection of the Children- Resolution was passed creating BCPC on November 5, 2003- Empowerment of the Barangay Leaders, Volunteer and other stakeholders in the management of the child abuse cases.- Creation of children and womens desk in the barangay- Intensification of collaboration with other pillars of justice re: reported child abuse cases.- Information dissemination and educational campaign on childs right.- On-going operation of birth right in coordination with the city civil registry office.- Organizing barangay network for protection of children.

1.b. Katarungang pambarangay existent and FunctionalFor the year 2010No. of Cased, filed and heard Referred to Court Solved/ Settled Dismissed8. The City of Manila under the : Linisin Ikarangal , ang Maynila of Mayor Alfredo S. Lim is very supportive of the peoples need in the community as evidenced by the following project done. Construction of 3 storey building named Corazon Aquino High School Construction of Corazon Aquino Health Center and Lying Inn. Construction of park and playground served as recreational activity for the young and old. Construction of president Corazon C. Aquino Public Market. Concreating of seawall and putting up metal barrier from block 6 olf site to the front of police community precinct to prevent accident to the family nearby. Setting up communal toilet for the fire victims last January 16, 2010 in Block 1 Gasangan. Setting up of BCPC &VAWC DESK at Barangay Multi-Purpose Center. Setting up of Manila City Hall Satellite office. STAKE HOLDERS UPDATEURBAN POOR ASSOCIATES ANNUAL REPORT SELAVIP

JANUARY TO AUGUST 2010 This is the delayed report of Urban Poor Associates activities financed by SELAVIP from January to September 2010. The funding arrived February 5, 2010 but it makes more sense to begin in January.

I. AREA ORGANIZING A. BASECO FIRE HOUSING PROGRAM In January a fire took place in the Northwest corner of Baseco destroying 242 homes. The local peoples organization, Kabalikat, was luckily in a position to help house the victims. In the previous two years Kabalikat had made a structural map of the whole of Baseco (56 has. and about 10,000 families). It also had censused all the families and cataloged all the houses. Thus, when the fire hit, Kabalikat was able to determine who were the legitimate residents. These families agreed to live in makeshift conditions until the Kabalikat housing program could be put into effect, because they knew they would be the beneficiaries. Kabalikat and UPA invited architects, engineers and students to help. An architect made a subdivision plan. The engineers surveyed the fire area and divided it into lots. Luckily we were all lucky to have contacts with Somsook Boonyabancha and the Asian Committee for Community Action which was able to donate $40,000 to the construction of the fire victim houses. It was decided to build very inexpensive basic houses that families could finish as they had more money. The cost of a house is $300, which is only one third the cost of Habitat for Humanity houses also in Baseco. The great value for the residents of these houses is that they are the legal actual occupants of the plots they occupy. The Baseco land has been proclaimed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the residents. The occupants of the fire victim houses are in line for leases and titles when the Baseco land is finally turned over to individual families. As of August 122 houses were finished. The above is a summary. We are attaching the pages that are taken from the ACCA Newsletter explaining the housing project in detail. B. ULINGAN/DUMPSITE Most recently in these areas we have determined to go ahead with our plan to provide a chimney for the toxic smoke that comes from the charcoal ovens (ulingan). They have tried several earlier remedies but without success. They attach a drawing by Mang Vic, a local leader in the area, that indicates what we are trying to do. They have an appointment with Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales to discuss funding for the chimney and to ask his help in all aspects of the problem, especially in struggles with powerful persons, such as, Reghis Romero, who has plans for the area that most likely do not include the people. There is more information on Ulingan/Dumpsite in the proposal we sent in June, Page 8. C. ISLA PUTING BATO The water line discussed in previous reports is now serving all the 2,000 plus families of Isla. Each family saves about P600 a month. Overall the families save P1.5 million which goes now for food, medicine and schooling above all else (See page 6 of UPA proposal for more details). D. R-10 Two water dispensing centers serve 800 families. Savings are P.5 million a month. In late 2009 and early 2010 the people were told they would be evicted. They protested, marched and negotiated winning a promise of good relocation (in Langkiwa, Binan, Laguna), but now the Department of Public Works and Highways says it has no money to proceed with the relocation, or with the road construction. The government has announced plans to modernize the whole North Harbor. This is a privatization project. Two ranking private companies are in charge. It is expected that all of the harbor and all the environs will be seriously affected but it is not clear yet how the people will be affected, except for 600 families actually living in the harbor area who will be evicted. We are working with them. E. KOSMA KOSMA now has 33 groups in its membership. It has extended from the Tondo area to San Andres, Malate and Paco areas. It has been able to have the Manila City Council create a Local Housing Board that will help regulate evictions and upgrading efforts. There were problems however in the voting for peoples seats on the Board. The election has been protested. They are looking for idle private land in the Tondo area that can serve as relocation sites when the people are evicted. They have a very influential former senator helping us. II. LEGAL WORK Please see section on UPA legal work in the June proposal, page 5. In addition at a meeting October 14 the lawyers of UPA said they were preparing an Omnibus Class Suit for the Supreme Court. The Suit will ask the Court to order all mayors to carry out the census of the poor and the allocating of land for socialized housing that they were ordered to do in 1992 Urban Development and Housing Act (UDHA), but never did.

III. EDUCATION UPA operates four tutoring centers in Baseco for 5th and 6th Graders, for pre-school children and for teenagers who have never been to school. Besides tutoring, the program organizes all the education NGOs in Baseco into a council that pushes for education improvement. IV. RESUMEUPAS PLACE AMONG HOUSING GROUPS IN THE PHILIPPINES The work described above has been and remains the principal work of UPA. It can be said UPA works at all levels of the housing effort. It organizes poor people, since only organized people can take advantage of the housing opportunities that exist. It stops the evictions that would remove the poor from the cities and jobs where the families work. It works on the legislation needed. It organizes large communities, Baseco, for example, so 7,500 families can get housing on secure land. UPA works with the Community Mortgage Program groups to form the Urban Poor Alliance (UP-All), which is the national advocacy organization uniting 1,200 NGOs and peoples groups. It works with the Homeless Peoples Federation of the Philippines, and all other NGOs doing housing because if we dont work together, we will achieve very little. UPA is part of the Partnership of Philippine Support Agency (PHILSSA).

UPDATED FACILITIES:I. WATER METER (MAYNILAD BA?)II. ELECTRICITY (MERALCO) III. SCHOOLSIV. EVACUATION CENTERV. LYING IN CENTERVI. PRECINCTVII. BARANGAY HALLVIII. TERMINALSIX. CHURCHES- UNG MUSLIM & CHRISTIAN CHURCHESX. PUBLIC MARKET- DUMAMI NA UNG TIANGE (PICTURE PLEASE)XI. BASKETBALL COURT- COVERED COURT (PICTURE PLEASE)

CURRENT SITUATION:

End of Road development

San Roque Mission Station

Current State of Streets. The streets are mud-covered, water pools become stagnant. Some houses placed stones in front and around in order to provide an elevated path.

Current State of Dwellings. Dwellings along the edge of Aplaya are mostly constructed out of wood or galvanized sheets and have bamboo fencing

Utilities water, exposed pipes along streets and pathways

Edge of BASECO along APLAYA. Proposed green belt was not achieved. According to the barangay the trees that were planted either died or were washed out during the flood.

Stagnant water along the bases of dwelling units The water is dominated by garbage. The dwellings are in stilts to avoid the water below.

Current state of pathway at the edge of OS. The pathways are cemented. The pathways are either utilized as an extension of their businesses (stores, canteens). Also serves as an interaction space for the residents.