manager and the support staff from the welfare institutions. Capacity Building ▪ The Camp manager assisted by the staff oriented the IDPs of the basic rules and regulations to be followed with the EC. ▪ The Philippine Red Cross conducted a 3-day training for the group officers on Leanliness, held at the nearby Municipal Hall. Humanitarian Assistance ▪ The office of Senator Koko Pimentel provided relief goods such as food/rice, and canned goods ▪ Peaceful Coexistence ▪ Grievances between and among the IDPs is first settled before the Group Leader, otherwise, it will be endorsed to the nearest Police Precint. (Has attended to several grievances already and has endorsed a case to the PNP) Site Planning ▪ The DSWD and the LGU ▪ Red Cross ▪ Women? ▪ Obviously, size of camp setting, family plot layout are not yet considered; families are staying in cramp setting, and are direly requesting for provision of foams and appropriate mattresses. ▪ On site Observers: being undertaken is that their fellow IDPs exert all their efforts to pacify the couples; otherwise they will endorse the matter to the DSWD or the nearby Police precinct. ▪ Issues between and among IDPs are usually brought about by misunderstanding and quarrel of children. ▪ As to incidence of ‘rido” none so far. ▪ One INFORMANT IS A GAY, but insisted that he is respected by his fellow IDPs in the EC and has not experienced yet any discrimination within the EC. Minorities ▪ None so far. Rights to Protection and Special Assistance to Children ▪ None so far. 82