Farmers group in Negros barangay produces face masks to support community health workers

In the middle of the fight against Coronavirus Disease (COVID) – 19, a crisis that affected the whole nation, an ordinary group of farmers gathered to take an extraordinary step, intervened, and undertakes support measures in aid of their fellows.

Jerusalem Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association (JARBA), a Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)-assisted farmer-beneficiaries organization in Negros Occidental 1-North has designed, produced, and distributed face masks to health workers in their barangay.

JARBA Chairperson Rosavilla C. Fuentebella said the farmer-members pulled up their available resources then produced and distributed face masks to their barangay frontliners to help prevent, in their own little way, the spread of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in their area.

“The face masks, an essential personal protective equipment (PPE), were delivered and turned-over to Barangay Captain Jimmy A. Diosana, in the presence of the barangay Midwife Soledad Magbanua and the rest of the health workers of the community,” Fuentabella said.

Fuentebella said despite the lack of resources of the farmer-members of the organization, they still recognized and prioritized the needs of others and initiated to give their shares in their fight against the global pandemic.

“Such a humble act of selflessness. That is what we all need in these hard and trying times,” Fuentabella noted.

Fuentabella emphasized that the farmers are also the unsung heroes and front-liners in the production and delivery of food, a very essential commodity especially in areas affected by the enhanced community quarantine.

JARBA is an agrarian reform cooperative, composed of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) who are holders of Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) from the four nearby haciendas in Barangay Jerusalem, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental. (Content reposted from DAR webpage)

In photo: Some of the members of Jerusalem Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association (JARBA) at Barangay Jerusalem, Cadiz City producing the face masks (Right) which were distributed to the barangay health workers.


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