Mapúa aids victims of Typhoon Yolanda

 

Fisherman Antonio Loyola of Guian, Samar, whose boat was destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda in 2013, proudly shows his new motorized bangka named “Mapua” after Mapúa Institute of Technology. This bangka is one of the 46 boat donations of the AY Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Yuchengco Group of Companies, to The Peter Project of the NVC Foundation. The Peter Project aims to allow fisher folks reclaim their livelihood, and thereby giving them the opportunity to recover from the calamity.

Mapúa, through its Office for Social Orientation and Community Involvement Programs (SOCIP) organized a donation drive in the Institute to collect cash and relief goods to help the people affected by the typhoon. Mapua SOCIP also helped the AY Foundation administer a three-day relief goods distribution to the six barangays of Busuanga, Palawan.

“Things that we provide during relief operations will just aid the victims for the time being. But helping them regain their source of livelihood assures the provider that something relevant had been done, and to the receiver’s end, that there is something to look forward to,” said Engr. Joyrence Mervin Agas, SOCIP Head.

Mapúa SOCIP also organized a free carpool to transport several evacuees coming from Samar and Leyte arriving at the Villamor Airbase. The evacuees were then brought to their relatives in Manila.