Relief op carried out in Baybay City, Abuyog after storm Agaton

Southern Leyte State University sent relief assistance to Baybay City and Abuyog town in Leyte on Wednesday, April 13, after being ravaged by tropical storm Agaton.

The relief drive for affected students was mainly implemented by the Office of the University President, the Office of the Vice President for Students and Auxiliary Services (OVPSAS), and the Office of the Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Extension Services (OVPRIES). It is also in coordination with the Office of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairperson Dr. J. Prospero E. De Vera III, Office of the CHED Commissioner Dr. Aldrin A. Darilag, CHED Regional Office No. VIII, and the Eastern Visyas chapter of the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC).

Task Force Bulig and Task Force Panginano sent relief goods to the students of the Southern Leyte State U, and the students, faculty, staff, and the communities of the Visayas State University (VSU).

Task forces were created in December 2021 when the university sent support to the affected students, employees, and the communities that the university serves.

The university distributed a total of 100 pcs of relief goods. Each of them contains cup noodles, blankets, used clothes, dipper, packs of biscuits, pail, bar of laundry soap, bath soap, canned goods, some utensils, and 10-liter drinking water.

The money that was used to buy the relief assistance was a contribution initiated by the university officials from all campuses, SLSU Faculty Organization (SFO), and the Facilitative and Administrative Society (FADS).

The five external campuses also made donations to their respective students in Baybay City and Abuyog town.

The donation is only the first wave of Southern Leyte State U’s relief operations to extend more help to the affected people and communities in the region.

More photos of the relief operations:

Students and university officials posing after handing the donations to Southern Leyte State U students

University officials and employees posing together with Dr. Aleli Villocino (the lady in red), Visayas State University's Vice President for Student Affairs and Services

In the photo are (L-R) VP for Students and Auxiliary Services Dr. Juanita M. Costillas, VP for Research, Innovation, and Extension Services Dr. Francis Ann. R Sy, University President Dr. Prose Ivy G. Yepes, together with the students from San Juan campus affected by the storm Agaton

President Yepes and VP Sy talking to the students of Southern Leyte State U about their current situation after the devastation of storm Agaton