Manila, April 10 -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 5 (Bicol) distributed assistance worth PHP100,000 to families affected by fire incidents in Barangay Bagumbayan, Daraga, Albay on Wednesday.

In a media release on Thursday, DSWD-5 Director Norman Laurio said the department's Disaster Response Management Division distributed food and non-food relief items, such as hygiene kits, kitchen kits, family kits, sleeping kits, collapsible water containers, six-liter bottled water, and laminated sacks, to five affected families.

The DSWD-5 also provided relief assistance to help the families process the documentary requirements for financial assistance worth PHP10,000 each under the DSWD-5's Assistance to Individuals in C...