Got Christmas gifts you have no use for? Donate them to the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) than keep them on the shelf to gain dust and your gifts may just feed a family who was left homeless because of Typhoon Sendong’s wrath.
The Jesuit-run AdMU is calling on its students and the general public to “pass on” or “hand down” the extra gifts they received during the recent yuletide season to the victims of natural calamities in Mindanao.
But donated gifts will not necessarily reach the victims directly like relief goods as the AdMU will sell the donated brand new gifts at half their price and tax-free through their donation drive dubbed “Share Care Extra Christmas Gifts.”
Proceeds of the sale will be used to buy relief goods for displaced families in Cagayan de Oro, Iligan and in other areas in Mindanao and the Visayas, as well as “Blueplate for Better Learning,” a feeding program for 4,000 public school children in various areas in Quezon City. The campaign will also benefit the Ateneo Center for Educational Development.
Donors are encouraged to bring their gifts to the Ateneo School of Government at Ortiz Hall, Social Development Complex in Loyola Heights, Quezon City until January 20.
A bazaar to sell the donated gifts will be held from January 28 to 29 at the Ateneo Loyola Heights campus.
For more information, contact program coordinator David Ingles at (02) 426-6001 local 4625 or (63999) 777-4414, or e-mail laingles@yahoo.com. (YouthPinoy)
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