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...
... each bag contains rice, noodles, coffee, sardines, and corned beef.
Regardless of whether you've been following the news surrounding the affected cities, it doesn't take a genius to know that in a disaster as intense as Yolanda was, the supply of drinking water will be greatly compromised.
So people are dehydrated and hungry, and plenty of credible sources online have issued warnings against donating food that requires water and cooking. And yet DSWD is sending over instant noodles, uncooked rice, and even instant coffee. Why!?
In response to this, I've heard that some teams from Ateneo are working on installing clean water systems in the affected areas (see: this article). I also heard that DSWD has assigned another team to take charge of delivering the clean drinking water, but I don't know if this is confirmed.
Anyway, let's all keep doing our best to help out. We've got 11,000 out of 80,000 down. We're really behind schedule. We have the goods but we need the horsepower.
I think there is a good and steady supply of volunteers during class times (7:30-4:30), thanks to the PE and NSTP departments redirecting students to the relief ops. Many classes have also been called off to give way to the relief efforts. Sir Roy cancelled Philo this morning for that purpose.
It's in the late afternoons, after 4:30 PM that people start to leave and we're short on hands. Mostly it's the dormers and the people who live near Katipunan that come to help, but we could still use some more people.
That's all for now. I'll keep you posted!
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...
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| (picture taken from the Ateneo website) |
Regardless of whether you've been following the news surrounding the affected cities, it doesn't take a genius to know that in a disaster as intense as Yolanda was, the supply of drinking water will be greatly compromised.
So people are dehydrated and hungry, and plenty of credible sources online have issued warnings against donating food that requires water and cooking. And yet DSWD is sending over instant noodles, uncooked rice, and even instant coffee. Why!?
In response to this, I've heard that some teams from Ateneo are working on installing clean water systems in the affected areas (see: this article). I also heard that DSWD has assigned another team to take charge of delivering the clean drinking water, but I don't know if this is confirmed.
Anyway, let's all keep doing our best to help out. We've got 11,000 out of 80,000 down. We're really behind schedule. We have the goods but we need the horsepower.
I think there is a good and steady supply of volunteers during class times (7:30-4:30), thanks to the PE and NSTP departments redirecting students to the relief ops. Many classes have also been called off to give way to the relief efforts. Sir Roy cancelled Philo this morning for that purpose.
It's in the late afternoons, after 4:30 PM that people start to leave and we're short on hands. Mostly it's the dormers and the people who live near Katipunan that come to help, but we could still use some more people.
That's all for now. I'll keep you posted!
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