SM Foundation boosts its Operation Tulong Express by sending out 50,000 Relief Packs to Yolanda victims
Survivors receive aid from “Operation
Tulong”, an SM Foundation relief drive, in typhoon-ravaged Cebu.
I guess there's always reason a for everything... a lot of questions has been asked, why do the Filipino people have to suffer like this? Why Philippines? Why do we have to experience such tragic and dreadful calamities that cost the lives of numerous Filipino people?
Now, I know why this has to occur... this is not only a "wake up call" as they say, it's a sign of hope, a promise... this only signifies that, no matter how distressing some people's lives had turned out, there's always a rainbow at the end of every storm.
It may not happen at once, it may not materialize the way we want it to, but somehow, we are holding on to something. The abominable happening has touched everyone's hearts globally, it has brought oneness, camaraderie, no discrimination, no reservations... always wanting to help and render aid in whichever they can with one common goal. It is to at give comfort and ease the lives of the survivors of typhoon #YolandaPH.
In light of all these, SM Foundation Sends Out 50,000 Relief Packs
to Yolanda Victims The SM Group of Companies, through the SM Foundation's
disaster relief program, Operation Tulong Express, has started relief
operations in typhoon-stricken areas across Luzon and the Visayas region to
provide assistance to the families greatly affected by super typhoon Yolanda.
“The SM Group of Companies has mobilized SM Foundation’s Tulong Express
disaster relief facility. We are distributing 50,000 kalinga packages to
typhoon victims in Tacloban, Samar, Panay Island (Iloilo, Antique, Capiz),
Cebu, Bicol and Bacolod," said SM Foundation executive director Debbie Sy.
An SM Foundation “Operation Tulong” truck carrying
relief goods for disaster survivors arrives in Cebu.
Following the onslaught of “Yolanda,” SM Foundation volunteers and partners
were able to immediately prepare 20,000 relief goods and have repacked 30,000
more for distribution to various areas at once. The Kalinga relief packages
consist of bottles of mineral water, rice, ready-to-eat ulam packs, and instant
noodles. A total of 50,000 relief packs are allocated in the following areas,
Tacloban (20,000 packs); Cebu (10,000); Panay Island (7,000); Samar (5,000);
Bohol (4,000); Bicol (3,000); and Bacolod (1,000).
The distribution is done in
cooperation with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the
Philippine Air Force, local government units, SM Malls, SM Hypermaket, SM
Supermarket, and SaveMore. SM Foundation also accepts donations in kind through
Tulong Express booths in all SM Malls nationwide or in cash deposited at BDO
account name: SM Foundation Inc.-Operation Tulong Express with savings account
number: 15000 70694. SM Foundation will issue receipt of donations for deposit
slips faxed to 831-8282.
For SM employees, they were able to raise more than
Php100,000 for the Bohol earthquake victims. Currently, the employees are
raising funds for the victims of typhoon Yolanda. While for its other ongoing
relief efforts, the Foundation vowed that it will push through with the
assistance it is currently extending to other regions in the country that were
hit by previous calamities, such as the earthquake that struck Bohol and Cebu
in October and typhoon Maring which battered various parts of the Philippines
last August.
A resident of Cebu clasping a relief pack she
received from SM Foundation’s “Operation Tulong”.
We'll move on eventually... God bless our country.
We'll move on eventually... God bless our country.
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