Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Airport employees to conduct humanitarian mission
SOME 70 personnel and officials of the Manila International airport Authority (MIAA) in Pasay City, Metro Manila will be coming over on August 31 to conduct a gift-giving, feeding, and medical mission to flood victims and poor residents of Iloilo City.
Mayor Jerry P. Treñas said Lingap-Kapwa, a social responsibility of MIAA officials and employees, would hold the humanitarian mission at the covered gym of Jaro Plaza.
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Lingap-Kapwa is an advocate of the pro-poor program of the government.
Treñas said he welcomes the gesture of MIAA. The city, he added, is now in the rehabilitation phase after the flood onslaughts last June 21 and 22.
The MIAA mission include gift-giving of 2,000 plastic bags containing sardines, corned beef, milk, noodles, rice and mineral water; supplemental feeding for 2,000 men, women and children; and medical consultation with free vitamins and medicines to 500 patients.
Lingap-Kapwa chairman Butch Bautista, MIAA administrative department manager, wrote Treñas about their intention to help the city's flood victims. With them are the current Ms. Earth and her court.
Lingap-Kapwa has a track record of humanitarian missions in various places in the country.
These missions were conducted in Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija on December 14, 2004; Real, Quezon Province on January 28, 2005; Roxas, Oriental Mindoro on April 15, 2005; Pildera, Pasay City on September 17, 2005; New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa on October 15, 2005; Barangay Mahabang Parang, Naujan, Oriental Mindoro on January 13-14, 2006; Barangay Nag-iba 2, Calapan, Oriental Mindoro on January 15, 2006; MIAA Admin Building on May 17, 2006; Legaspi ad Daraga, Albay on December 11-13, 2006; and in Gawad Kalinga community in Libmanan, Camarines Sur on May 18-21, 2007. (Lydia C. Pendon)
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