Purchase Team Headed to Ormoc & Cebu

By: Nelia Adona

Isang malaking hamon sa pagsimula ng aming proyektong pabahay sa Pope Francis Village ang paghahanap ng mga suplayer sa Tacloban City na may pinakamurang presyo ng materyales.  Napagpasyahan ng FRANCESCO at ng Community Support Group na tumungo ng Ormoc at Cebu upang doon maghanap ng iba pang posibleng suplayer. Noong nakaraang Pebrero 22-26, 2016, kasama kong pumunta doon sina Rosana Danao, isa ring myembro ng Purchase Team at si Architect Honeyleth Ladiero-Balunso. 

 (One of the challenges that we are anticipating when we start the housing construction at Pope Francis Village is scouting for suppliers offering cheaper quotes for construction materials in Tacloban City. In view of this, FRANCESCO and the Community Support Group decided to look for other potential suppliers in Ormoc and Cebu last February 22-26, 2016. I went there with Rosana Danao, one of the Purchase Team members  and Architect Honeyleth Balunso. 
Standing from left are Ms. Nelia Adona & Rosana Danao ,
members of  the Purchase Team who went to Cebu and Ormoc
Naisipan naming dumaan sa Santo Niño Church upang humingi ng spiritwal na gabay sa apat na araw naming pamamalagi sa Cebu. Hindi namin ininda ang maninit na panahon para mapuntahan ang malalaking suplayer ng bakal, semento, kahoy at bubong. Dahil ideneklarang walang pasok ang araw na Pebrero 25 bilang komemorasyon ng EDSA Revolution, nagkaroon kami ng pagkakataon na mabisita ang isang proyektong pabahay sa Lower Tipolo, Mandaue City. Katulad ng Pope Francis Village, eto ay isang proyekto kung saan malaki ang papel na ginagampanan ng komunidad sa implementasyon. Nakita namin na maganda ang mga bahay at gawa sa matibay na materyales. Isa eto sa nagbigay ng inspirasyon sa amin upang ipagpatuloy ang aming aktibong pakikipagbahagi sa mga proseso ng Pope Francis Village.

(We dropped-by at Santo Niño Church to ask for spiritual guidance for our 4-day stay in Cebu. Amidst the extremely hot weather, we managed to visit big suppliers of steel, cement, lumber and roofing materials. Since February 25 was declared as an official holiday in commemoration of the EDSA Revolution, most of the hardware stores were close. We took this as an opportunity to visit a community-managed housing project in Lower Tipolo, Mandaue City, which just like Pope Francis Village, also spotlighted the important role of communities in project implementation. The houses are beautiful and durably constructed. Having seen this, we were inspired to continue our active involvement in all processes relative to the implementation of Pope Francis Village. 

Another distributor of construction materials in Ormoc City.
Masaya ako at malaki ang aking pasasalamat na sa unang pagkakataon ay nakarating ako ng Cebu at nagampanan namin ang aming responsibilidad sa Purchase Team. Bukod sa na-aplay namin ang aming natutunan sa procurement workshop, nagkaroon pa kami ng panibagong karanasan sa aming pakikipagsalamuha sa mga malalaking suplayer.

(I am very happy and grateful that I was able to stepped in Cebu for the first time  and perform our responsibility as members of the Purchase Team.  Apart from applying our learning from the procurement workshop, we also gained new experiences in dealing with big suppliers.)
These two women are filling-up canvass forms for target suppliers.
After consolidating all the canvass forms, the Purchase team 
plotted all the price quotations in a tally board to determine
the suppliers offering the cheapest quotes. 

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