[Manila, Philippines News] Int’l groups help repack goods for for Yolanda victims_WMSCOG_GOD THE MOTHER

Members of World Mission Society Church of God and Int’l We Love U Foundation join in repacking of relief goods for the victims of typhoon Yolanda at the National Relief Operations Center in Pasay City.

YOON Mi Ja, a plain housewife all the way from South Korea, went to the country to personally help in the relief operations of the government for the victims of super typhoon ‘Yolanda.’

While foreign and local donations are continuously pouring for the victims of the super typhoon, people from all walks of life who wanted to help in the government’s relief operations are also flooding at the National Relief Operations Center (NROC) in Pasay City.

Yoon Mi was just one of the more than 100 members of the World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) and International We Love U Foundation (WLUF) who volunteered to repack relief goods for the typhoon victims.

The NROC, which has been in a 24-hour operation after Yolanda devastated Eastern Visayas, is under the supervision of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Yoon Mi said she decided to help in the repacking of relief goods after learning from media reports that many people in Eastern Visayas were greatly affected by the strongest typhoon in the world recorded for this year.

“Because we heard that many people in Tacloban cannot drink and cannot eat. So as a member of Church of God, I want to help them and share to them our God’s love,” she said.

Pastor Jeongmaán Choi, president of WMSCC and WLUF Philippines local chapter said, they decided to send members to help in the repacking of relief goods in response to the call of the DSWD for more volunteers.

“When I heard from the media that they need manpower to repack, so we approached DSWD on how we can help. We want to share the God’s love to the victims of the typhoon, so we decided to help in the repacking of relief goods,” he said.

Because of this, Jeongmaán said he invited all their 38 churches in the Philippines to heed the call of the government for more volunteers.

Aside from volunteering work, he said the We Love U Foundation is also planning to stage fund raising activities in which proceeds will be given to the typhoon victims.

For her part, Thea Lynn Cordero, the foundation’s project manager said they also invited students from various schools and universities to join in their endeavor.

“We went school to school just to invite volunteers and many of them responded to our call,” she added.

DSWD Regional Director Leonardo Reynoso explained that many volunteers, both Filipino and foreigners, are coming to the center everyday to help in the repacking of relief goods.

He explained that those who wanted to help in the repacking will be first subjected to a brief orientation before they could be dispatched to the warehouse.

“Volunteers are being oriented before they will be assigned to the designated areas,” he added.

Apart from the volunteers, Reynoso said the NROC has 300 uniformed personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) regularly helping in the delivery and transport of relief goods from the center to Villamor Airbase.

He also said that the DSWD is planning to put up repacking centers or warehouses in various areas in Eastern Visayas such as Ormoc and Tacloban City in order to hasten the distribution of relief goods to the typhoon victims.