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Department of Social Welfare and Development regional director Ma. Evelyn Macapobre yesterday made an appeal to those who want to donate clothes for calamity victims to ensure their donations are usable and useful to those who may receive them.

Volunteers from the Adventist Community Service and Bayanihang Bayan Volunteers help the DSWD staff in repacking rice and canned goods that are being readied for distribution in case Typhoon Yolanda does not spare the region from its wrath.
Volunteers from the Adventist Community Service and Bayanihang Bayan Volunteers help the DSWD staff in repacking rice and canned goods that are being readied for distribution in case Typhoon Yolanda does not spare the region from its wrath.

“We accept donations of clothes that the affected individuals can really put to use. Not gowns or sequined dresses or worse, rags which they cannot use,” she said.

The director made this pronouncement following past incidents wherein some of the clothes donated were only shelved because they are not the ones that the calamity victims really needed.

Early Thursday morning, Macapobre called for an emergency meeting with the members of the Quick Response Team and all the staff of the DSWD regional office to discuss and lay out the preparations and contingency plans in case “super” Typhoon Yolanda wreaks havoc in Western Visayas.

The regional office has already 3,000 standby goods for augmentation to Local Government Units in case the typhoon badly hits the region. Repacking of relief goods has started since Wednesday.
Donations in cash or in kind will be properly acknowledged and ensured they reached the rightful recipients./dswd6