Residents of Sitio San Roque with the Kadamay San Roque as lead peoples organization together with Save San Roque Alliance marched to the Quezon City Hall on the eve of Human Rights Day on Monday, December 9, to formally submit their Community Development Plan, or CDP, to Mayor Joy Belmonte and to call on the local government of Quezon City to acknowledge and implement the CDP.

The CDP is the product of months of planning & consultations made between the residents and the Alliance, and recommends the creation of affordable & mass-oriented on-site housing for the residents as an alternative housing solution to prevailing government relocation programs and state-enforced evictions.

Faced with the imminent threat of homelessness and displacement brought by the profit-oriented developments of Ayala-NHA, the CDP is the community-led alternative housing solution the residents and the Save San Roque Alliance are pushing for. Aside for the urban poor's right to decent and affordable housing, the CDP also aims to assert the urban poor's right to the city as valuable contributors of urban development.

Which is why we seek the support of sympathetic individuals/organizations like you to amplify our call on the local & national government to acknowledge and implement the San Roque Community Development Plan.

This petition would help strengthen our claim for the urban poor's right to decent and affordable housing- asserting their right to the city as valuable contributors of urban development and as fellow human beings with dignity and rights. As a democratic Filipino people, we have the power to persuade our government to enforce the rights of all our fellow citizens who have been struggling against aggressive development. 

To know more about the campaign and the alliance, you may email us at savesanroquealliance@gmail.com, visit our social media pages (@SaveSanRoque on Twitter and fb.com/SaveSitioSanRoque on Facebook).

Disente, abot-kaya, maka-masang on-site CDP, ipatupad!

Thank you very much for your endless support!

-Save San Roque Alliance

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