ORIENTAL MINDORO — The Office of the Vice President (OVP) through its Disaster Operations Center (OVP-DOC) on Tuesday provided rice assistance to a total of 155 families in Victoria town here.

The aid was delivered after Vice President Sara Duterte received a letter from a Mangyan tribe leader asking for immediate rice and food assistance during her visit in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro.

The tribe also asked the OVP to provide them with housing and small businesses for sustainability.

To cater the tribe’s immediate needs, Duterte instructed the OVP-DOC to personally visit the residents and distributed a sack of rice to each of the 155 Mangyan families.

The OVP is currently coordinating with the local government units, the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD), and the National Housing Authority (NHA) to address the tribe’s housing project concerns. OVP MEDIA