Hundreds receive aid in Daanbantayan

Hundreds of residents that were affected by supertyphoon Yolanda received relief goods from GMA Super Radyo dySS Cebu last Saturday afternoon at the Libertad Primary School in barangay Bagay, Daanbantayan town.

The staff of dySS led by station manager Susan Aliño and chief operating officer Bobby Nalzaro trooped to northern Cebu towns to distribute relief packs to 250 residents, bags and school supplies to 116 school pupils and Christmas gifts to six teachers.

Libertad Primary School is one of the schools in northern Cebu that suffered major damage after being hit by supertyphoon Yolanda last Nov. 8.

After more than a month since the typhoon struck, the school has not recovered yet and pupils attend classes in makeshift tents donated by World Vision and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).

Aliño said they were supposed to hold a Christmas party but decided to cancel it and donate the budget to the typhoon victims.

Bobby Nalzaro, GMA-7 newscaster and chief operating officer of dySS, expressed gratitude to those individuals who channeled their donations to the station, including the dySS office staff and reporters.

“We express our sympathy to the victims and made this little sacrifice to appease them and let them feel that there is hope,” Nalzaro said.

Aside from the distribution of gifts, there were also performances from the drama talents of dySS and the Talamban Children’s Ministry for the Yolanda victims to cope with stress after the typhoon. /CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA