BY: MARLON A. LOTERTE
LEGAZPI CITY. Nov. 11 (PIA) -- Team Albay - Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Bicol, comprised of 179 personnel, left this city Saturday, Nov. 9, for another humanitarian mission in Samar and Leyte that were hardest hit by typhoon Yolanda last Friday, Nov. 8.
The eight-service-delivery-team contingent left on board 14 vehicles, including two coasters, two buses, four trucks and six support vehicles, with one ambulance, hit the road Saturday evening after a departure blessings administered byFr. Nick Bilono of the Albay Cathedral and Major Denis Bulanday, chaplain of the Naval Forces for Southern Luzon.
“This 11th mission of Team Albay-OCD5 is the biggest and the most quickly-dispatched mercy and goodwill mission as areas hardest hit by the recent super typhoon badly needed help,” according to Albay Gov. Joey Sarte Salceda.
The humanitarian mission is composed of the water sanitation team, equipped with filtration machine and water tank lorry, is composed of men volunteers from the Provincial Engineering Office; Provincial Health Office; Provincial General Services Office; Naval Forces for Southern Luzon; Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The land and water search and rescue team will have personnel from the Bureau of Fire Protection; Navforsol; 2nd Infantry Battalion and 9th Infantry Division; and Philippine Air Force-Tactical Operations Group 5.
For the medical team, the Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital will have a component of 24 experts, to be assisted by 12 volunteers from the Albay Health and Emergency Medical unit.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development will send four psychosocial experts while the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office will have four volunteers for relief support.
Other teams will render support services like kitchen/operations from the PSWDO and the Governor's Office, 12 personnel; management team from the GO -- one, Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office -- four, DSWD -- four, and driver-mechanics, four; communications team, ten; and Sangguniang Panlalawigan, five.
“We appreciate the spirit of volunteerism among Albayanos who wish to pay forward and return the favor for help received from the nation in so many periods of distress before," the Salceda said.
Team Albay, added Salceda, makes a difference by infusing skills and resources that are difficult to find in the affected communities.
"Thus, we are composed of well-trained and well-experienced personnel in search and rescue in land and water, in operating water filtration machines and water distribution, in providing medical health in post disaster emergency and in psychosocial care," he explained.
He said that aside from the humanitarian mission, Albay province will give financial assistance of P500,000 each to Tacloban City and Samar as approved by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Albay.
Meanwhile, Bicol regional director Rafael Bernardo Alejandro of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said the second batch composed of technical personnel of Team Albay-OCD 5 humanitarian mission left yesterday for Tacloban City. (MAL-PIA5/Albay)
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LEGAZPI CITY. Nov. 11 (PIA) -- Team Albay - Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Bicol, comprised of 179 personnel, left this city Saturday, Nov. 9, for another humanitarian mission in Samar and Leyte that were hardest hit by typhoon Yolanda last Friday, Nov. 8.
The eight-service-delivery-team contingent left on board 14 vehicles, including two coasters, two buses, four trucks and six support vehicles, with one ambulance, hit the road Saturday evening after a departure blessings administered byFr. Nick Bilono of the Albay Cathedral and Major Denis Bulanday, chaplain of the Naval Forces for Southern Luzon.
“This 11th mission of Team Albay-OCD5 is the biggest and the most quickly-dispatched mercy and goodwill mission as areas hardest hit by the recent super typhoon badly needed help,” according to Albay Gov. Joey Sarte Salceda.
The humanitarian mission is composed of the water sanitation team, equipped with filtration machine and water tank lorry, is composed of men volunteers from the Provincial Engineering Office; Provincial Health Office; Provincial General Services Office; Naval Forces for Southern Luzon; Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The land and water search and rescue team will have personnel from the Bureau of Fire Protection; Navforsol; 2nd Infantry Battalion and 9th Infantry Division; and Philippine Air Force-Tactical Operations Group 5.
For the medical team, the Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital will have a component of 24 experts, to be assisted by 12 volunteers from the Albay Health and Emergency Medical unit.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development will send four psychosocial experts while the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office will have four volunteers for relief support.
Other teams will render support services like kitchen/operations from the PSWDO and the Governor's Office, 12 personnel; management team from the GO -- one, Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office -- four, DSWD -- four, and driver-mechanics, four; communications team, ten; and Sangguniang Panlalawigan, five.
“We appreciate the spirit of volunteerism among Albayanos who wish to pay forward and return the favor for help received from the nation in so many periods of distress before," the Salceda said.
Team Albay, added Salceda, makes a difference by infusing skills and resources that are difficult to find in the affected communities.
"Thus, we are composed of well-trained and well-experienced personnel in search and rescue in land and water, in operating water filtration machines and water distribution, in providing medical health in post disaster emergency and in psychosocial care," he explained.
He said that aside from the humanitarian mission, Albay province will give financial assistance of P500,000 each to Tacloban City and Samar as approved by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Albay.
Meanwhile, Bicol regional director Rafael Bernardo Alejandro of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said the second batch composed of technical personnel of Team Albay-OCD 5 humanitarian mission left yesterday for Tacloban City. (MAL-PIA5/Albay)
- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=771384148032#sthash.6SoEDuTe.dpuf
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