COTABATO CITY – Various groups from the academe, religious and private and government sectors, and non-government organizations have gathered for a noble and solidarity purpose – to extend help to the victims of recent typhoon “Agaton” (International codename: Lingling) that ravaged many villages in Maguindanao’s Datu Odin Sinsuat town.
Dubbed as “Alay Pagmamahal” or Love Offering, volunteers trooped to the coastal areas and conducted relief mission and a clean-up drive.
Some 140 families have benefited from the humanitarian mission and received food packs and other necessities or non-food items.
Aside from the distribution of relief packs, some of the peace education students of MSU-Maguindanao and CCSPC conducted a feeding program and shared their psycho-social healing to the Tiduray children in the area.
The effort was initiated by Dr Susana Anayatin, an associate professor of Cotabato State Polytechnic College and the Mindanao State University-Maguindanao.
The sponsors of the project were Goldin Institute Philippines, San Carlos Borromeo Parish, Oblates of Mary Immaculate, 6th Infantry Division Training School, Office for Southern Cultural Communities of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and the SPDA Catholic Youth Organization. (Mye Casuse)
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