Tuguegarao City – More aid pour in as students from the Cagayan State University (CSU), University of St. Louis Tuguegarao (USLT) and University of Cagayan Valley (UCV) volunteer to repack locally-purchased goods into family food packs ready for distribution to the affected areas in the region at the Department of Social Welfare and Development Office Field Office 02 (DSWD-FO2) warehouse on September 18-19, 2018.

Taking advantage of the suspension of classes, a total of 39 undergraduate students from the College of Social Work and College of Allied Health and Sciences and 52 graduate students from the College of Law arrived for the undertaking.

 

Atty. Norman Clarence Lasam, a professor from the CSU College of Law, expressed support by declaring the two days as Law Day where the service rendered by the graduate students will be credited as hours rendered in their practicum, citing the need to produce proficient lawyers with the passion for humanitarian service.

 

Zeneth Quilenderino, one of the law students who volunteered for the task, said that the service is her way of showing how much she appreciates studying while being subsidized through the people’s levies.

 

“As scholars of a state-owned university, we are given the opportunity to study through the peoples’ taxes. This (voluntary work) is one of the ways for us to give back to the government and render service to our countrymen,” she added.

1,660 Family Food Packs were repacked and immediately delivered to nearby municipalities in Cagayan for distribution to affected families.

 

 

A locally produced family food pack containing 6 kilos of rice, 5 cans of sardines and 4 cans of corned beef slightly varies from the food pack delivered by the National Relief Operations Center (NROC) of DSWD Central Office which also contains coffee or cereal drink but still follows the standard price of 350.00 per food pack.

 

A Family Food Pack should sustain a family of 5 for 2-3 days.