Manila, April 3 -- The city government has completed a project improving and converting a halfway house built by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for rebel returnees into a facility that can also accommodate beneficiaries of the City Social Welfare and Development Office's (CSWDO) programs.

Mayor Benjamin Magalong said in a media release Thursday that various government offices' resources put together for such project would provide better service to the constituents.

Liza Bulayungan, chief of the CSWDO, said the city government built the transitional shelter for rebel returnees using a PHP5 million grant from the DILG, but "there were no clients since 2018 so we decided to convert the facility to accommodate t...