relief
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has appointed Ateneo as its satellite area for the repackaging of relief goods ready to be transported to Visayas. The repackaged goods are called DSWD family packs. The agreement was to have 80,000 family packs delivered back to the main branch by Saturday. To be clear: The goods are delivered in large quantities from DSWD to Ateneo. Ateneo is in charge of repacking them in the covered courts. Donations in kind are handled by another party, the Simbahang Lingkod Ng Bayan, but are still accepted in the Ateneo campus (at the Richie Fernando Covered Courts, specifically). Having said that, a lot of volunteers and leaders were puzzled by DSWD's choice of relief goods. As you can see written down on the board below... (picture taken from the Ateneo website ) ... each bag contains rice, noodles, coffee, sardines, and corned beef. Regardless of whether you've been following the news surrounding the affected cities,