Lopez family, ABS-CBN, Manresa School extend relief assistance to over a thousand families
Atty. Jobert Peñaflorida (5th from left), ABS-CBN host
and Executive Director of Taos Puso Foundation Inc.
with the TPFI staff.
A total of 1,276 families in three Iloilo towns were yesterday's latest beneficiaries of relief assistance from the Lopez family, ABS-CBN, the Manresa School and the Spouses of the Heads of Mission group.
Coursed through the Taos Puso Foundation Incorporated (TPFI) of couple Emily Relucio-Lopez and Albertito Lopez and ABS-CBN Iloilo, beneficiary-families were heavily affected residents of Barangay Ungka II, Pavia , Barangay Cagay, Alimodian and San Miguel, Iloilo .
Hundreds of men, women, children and the elderly eagerly awaited for the distribution led by the couple's daughter, Celine and Fe Daphne Goitia, guidance counselor of Manresa School.
Celine Lopez helps in the distribution of relief
goods to the typhoon victims.
P20,000 in SM gift certificates and 2,500 cans of Century tuna sardines were given to the relief mission through Celine's efforts. Her brother Tito Lopez also gave out his personal share of P10,000 to add up to the relief fund.
Meanwhile, efforts of students from Manresa School raised 156 boxes of assorted canned goods, noodles and used clothing. Such on top of the P110,000 raised by the students in a fund-drive immediately after the typhoon hit Iloilo.
The Lopez relief mission also got P20,000 from Senate President Manny Villar and 720 packs of noodles, P100,000 from the Spouses of the Heads of Mission group and P20,000 from a Lopez friend, Marot Moreno. Negros Navigation also contributed to the relief mission.
An old woman walks carrying with her relief goods.
Yesterday's Lopez-backed assistance to victims of Typhoon Frank was a follow-up to last week's mass feeding of over 600 victims in Jaro District of Iloilo City.
Lunch was served to the victims who were then evacuated to the Jaro Cathedral also with Celine leading the foundation officials and ABS-CBN Iloilo family.