DSWD accepts donations for flood victims in Manila

In response to the urgent need of flood victims in Metro Manila, the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) has opened its Donors’ Desk at its field office to accept donations in cash or in kind.

In a meeting called by Task Force Tabang, the DSWD-7 was tasked to supervise and coordinate the processing, documentation and receiving as well as storing and repacking of relief goods, both food and non-food items.

The welfare department was also assigned to coordinate with the transport groups for the delivery of these relief goods to the affected areas.

Basic needs include canned goods, bottled water, medicines, clothes, underwears, blankets, kitchen and cooking utensils, toiletries and hygiene kits.

The DSWD field office 7 is located on M.J. Cuenco Avenue corner Gen. Maxilom Street, Cebu City.

Donors may look for Lyn Marie Pino or Roberto Yana, DSWD-7 procurement officer at 4129908 local 106.

Meanwhile, the DSWD-7, as the vice chair for the disaster response of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC), conducted a special training course on family and community disaster preparedness for all its social welfare officers in the cities and municipalities in Central Visayas to better equip them with the skills needed for disaster response.

The five-day training discussed salient features of the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act and its implementing guidelines as well as the Philippine Climate Change Adaption Act.

The activity also defined hazard, disaster and differentiate them from each other, identify disaster preparedness protocols with focus on typhoon, flood, earthquake and tsunami at home and in the larger community levels, clarify the grey areas of cluster approach, relief operations, and evacuation management, assessed the hazard vulnerabilities and capacities of their areas of responsibility, formulated specific, measurable, accurate realistic, and time bounded contingency plans by area of responsibility.

Participants also acquired skills along First Aid, Basic Life Support, Safe Emergency Transport, High Rise Building Earthquake Evacuation, and Swift Water Evacuation and Rescue.