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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
From Sun.Star
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Various civic groups and charitable individuals in the province have been lauded for their initiatives and immediate response to the multi-sector effort to help victims of Typhoon Ondoy.
Levy Laus, chairman of the Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), cited the Quota International of Pampanga, the Jaycees and Rotary Clubs and members of the business community who have been actively involved in and donated to the collective effort of extending help to the victims, particularly in hard-hit towns of the province.
Sun.Star accepts donations for victims of Typhoon Ondoy
“We are grateful to the officers and members of these groups for putting their valuable time and resources to enable us to get the fund drive and relief efforts going under the aegis of CLTV 36,” Laus, chairman of the Laus Group of Companies, said.
CLTV 36, a regional television station in this city, is a member of the Laus Group.
On Sunday, following the devastating effects of Typhoon Ondoy on several towns in the province, particularly in Arayat where 12 persons were killed by a mudslide, CLTV 36 launched Operation “Tulong” to provide assistance and relief to the victims.
“While CLTV 36 is spearheading the drive, it’s really these groups and donors who have provided financial, moral and spiritual support for us to be able to convey our compassion and support to the victims in a concrete and meaningful way,” Laus said.
Laus said that, initially, financial assistance and relief goods will be extended to the victims in Arayat, particularly those who lost their loved ones and homes as a result of the killer avalanche of loose soil and boulders that buried them along Mt. Arayat’s slopes.
During a meeting with the various groups last Monday, Laus said assistance could also be extended to other victims outside Pampanga if funds are available.
It can be recalled that Laus, along with other business and civic leaders and government officials, were at the forefront in a multi-sector effort to save this city and the rest of Pampanga against lahar attack in the 1990s.
