Damayan is one project one Barangay Tangos Baliuag Bulacan that was organized by Captain Bernard Gonzales. From a Php30 contribution fees from each of 820 families in the Barangay, a neighbor who loses a loved one is assured that the dead relative would be given a coffin and a decent wake. The family left behind would receive financial assistance, and educational care of the barangay-run funeral parlor and the Damayan sa Barangay Tangos Inc. (DBTI), a group composed of community members.
Bernard Gonzales, Tangos barangay captain, said when he assumed leadership of the Barangay in 2003, he received a steady stream of village mates asking money to bury their kin.
To avoid dependence on doleouts, he and other village leaders and community members sat down and agreed to form the DBTI. He said with the DBTI, families in his village would not worry where to get the money to buy coffin and sustain the wake. In 2007 they stablished their own Funeral that was owned by their organization
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