ROXAS City – Balay Silangan, a reformation center for drug offenders, was inaugurated in Jamindan, Capiz on Dec. 7.
Established at the new municipal building, it is the second in the province of Capiz and the 21st in Western Visayas.
“This is a realization of our desire to help reform drug offenders and make them productive members of the community again,” said Jamindan mayor MacArtur Valdemar.
The inauguration was graced by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 6 director Edgar Apalla and members of the Municipal Anti-Drug Abuse Council, among others.
“Last month, 30 barangays of the municipality were also drug-cleared,” Valdemar noted.
“Balay Silangan” is a national drug reformation program which offers temporary refuge to drug surrenderers for reformation towards them becoming self-sufficient, law-abiding and renewed members of society.
General interventions like physical activities, counseling, moral recovery, values formation, personal and life skills, among others, are provided at the center as mandated under the program.
The first drug offenders’ reformation center in the province was put up in Tapaz early in 2019. (PIA-Capiz/PN)
