Coops pooled P1.5 million for typhoon victims

TAGUM CITY, March 09:   Cooperatives in Luzon and in the Visayas together with Tagum Cooperative served a total of 5,480 families  who experienced the wrath of typhoon Pablo and the consequent  adverse weather conditions  causing massive floods.

Recently released Relief and Rehabilitation Report of Tagum Cooperative  showed that cooperatives in Luzon and in the Visayas  and Tagum Cooperative pooled together a total of P1,490,400 to reach out to the affected families.

Tagum Cooperative pitched in a counterpart donation of P940,000; Cebu Court of First Instance put in P300,000; Paco Soriano Pandacan Development Cooperative shared P150,000; CLIMBS Insurance, P40,000; Valenzuela Development Cooperative,  P30,000; Nocaliches Development Cooperative, Inc (NOVADECI), P20,000; and San Jose Del Monte Cooperative, P10,000.

“They extended and gave us their donations to typhoon victims without us asking them,” Tagum Cooperative Chairperson of the Board of Director Norma Pereyras said. As the trusted conduit of donations from fellow cooperative,  Tagum Cooperative brought relief goods to one city and three towns in Davao del Norte and to four towns in Compostela Valley.

Recipient  areas in Davao del Norte were barangays San Miguel and Liboganon in Tagum City; barangays Guadalupe, Maligaya and Salvacion in Carmen; and in the municipalities of Kapalong  and New Corella.

In Compostela Valley, Tagum Cooperative relief operation reached  the evacuation site of New Bataan; in barangays Poblacion and Bagungon in Compostela; New Visayas and Lino-an in Montevista;  and in barangays Babag, San Jose, Tubo-Tubo and Salvacion in Monkayo.

Including the P9,961 worth of relief goods given to Davao City,  Tagum Cooperative distributed P1,065,188.08 total worth of family relief packs to operation areas in Davao del Norte and in Compostela Valley.

Tagum Cooperative stretched the pooled resources to also buy P334,638 total worth of galvanized iron (GI) sheets  for building of new houses for typhoon displaced families in New Bataan, Nabunturan, Compostela, Laak and Monkayo; and in reconstructing elementary schools in Agusan del Sur.  (Tagum Cooperative)