This was presented during the BSU Agency In-House Review about BSU efforts to help in the aftermath of Typhoon Ompong.

1. Tugon para sa ITOGON
BSU’S RESPONSE TO TYPHOON OMPONG

2. CONTENTS
Report about the BSU-Tugon Para sa Itogon
donation drive for the affected communities
during and after the onslaught of Typhoon
Ompong that happened on September 2018
Results of needs assessments conducted while
doing the donation drive
Lessons learned/challenges and
recommendations on how BSU could improve its
response in times of disaster.

3. -made landfall at Baggao,
Cagayan in September 12, 2018
-international name “Mangkhut”
-760 millimeters of rainfall, 10
minute sustained winds of 205
km/h
-classified as Category 5-super
typhoon under the Saffir-
Simpson scale
-considered as the strongest
typhoon ever since
Yolanda/Haiyan that hit Leyte in
November, 2013
TYPHOON OMPONG

4. TYPHOON OMPONG
-affected Regions I, II, III, CALABARZON,
MIMAROPA, NCR, and CAR (PAGASA, 2018).
A total of 730, 596 families or 3,029,062
persons were affected in 5,917 barangays of
which 3,393 families or 14,752 persons
were served inside and outside evacuation
centers (NDRRM Operations Center, 2018).
-the National Disaster Risk Reduction
Management monitored 43 incidents of
landslides, floodings, road slip, land
subsidence and vehicular accidents.
-Four of the landslides that caused
casualties happened in Itogon, Benguet.
-The rescue and retrieval operations to dig
the victim’s remains took almost two
months with various government and non-
government organizations working
together..

5. SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
ONSLAUGHT OF TC OMPONG IN ITOGON
84 died (DILG-CAR data as of Sept. 26, 2018)
1,751 individuals evacuated
132 houses were totally damaged and 1,071 partially damaged
Source-Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan for the Municipality of Itogon

6. SUPREME STUDENT GOVERNMENT involving all colleges(SSG), UNIVERSITY PUBLIC
AFFAIRS OFFICE (UPAO), CA-DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION EACH
INITIATED A DONATION DRIVE FOR ITOGON
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7. ALL DONATION DRIVE INITIATIVES WERE CENTRALIZED WITH UPAO AND THE SSG
OFFICE AS THE “COLLECTION AND RE-PACKING CENTERS” OF CASH AND GOODS
DONATIONS
The drive was able to collect a total of
Php 137,552.00
cash donations and bags of clothes, food, basic sanitary needs and bottles of drinking water. It took five waves or visits to
Itogon before all the donations were exhausted.
WHILE DONATIONS POURED IN, THE FIRST WAVE/VISIT/DELIVERY OF DONATIONS WAS
PLANNED. A PORTION OF THE CASH DONATIONS WERE USED TO PURCHASE GOODS
NEEDED BY EVACUEES

8. FIRST WAVE:
September 21, 2018 in Barangay Ucab and Sitio Luneta

9. SECOND WAVE:
September 22, 2018, Barangay Gumatdang in Itogon

10. By the third wave, research assistants from the ISRD were already with the team to help with the
interviews and needs assessment.
THIRD WAVE:
October 5, 2018, Tabu Elementary School and Sitio Baloccoc/Barangay Dalupirip

11. FOURTH WAVE:
October 13, 2018, for 26 students of Saint Louis High School Antamok

12. FIFTH WAVE:
November 9, 2018 at the Goldfield Elementary School

13. REVISIT:
February 2019
-there are still evacuees at an evacuation center called “Garrison”
-DSWD with the help of line agencies and private organizations, has
facilitated the training and employment of interested individuals. A short-
term program for instance where some of the women were hired for 15
days to help in cleaning the barangay but this was just a temporary relief
compared to the actual needs of the different families who were affected
-the result of the skills training which was offered by TESDA remains to be
seen on how it will help in providing alternative livelihood to the people

14. -A 54-page rehabilitation and recovery plan for the Municipality was crafted and presented to the
Committee on Disaster Management of the House of Representative on November 19, 2018. The
plan shows the development thrusts of the Municipality which includes agriculture, tourism, small
scale mining and solid waste management program. To achieve these, the strategies are to build
farm-market roads, encourage agro-forest plantations, support organic agriculture, build satellite
markets within Itogon, build greenhouses and composting facilities.
Most of all, the plan envisions an Itogon of verdant forests that covers what used to be
mountainsides riddled with landslides and tillings ponds.
-in an interview with Mayor Fernando Palangdan. He stressed that the biggest problem of all is how
the children of the miners made unemployed by the DENR mining ban would continue their studies
and that the mining ban did more harm than good because even the miners not affected by
Typhoon Ondoy are already affected.
-Municipal LGU welcomes any assistance that could help residents gain new skills to seek
employment or to start a livelihood

15. 1st-
TRAINING NEEDS IDENTIFIED ACCORDING TO PRIORITY
Book Keeping
Project Proposal Writing
Resolution Writing
2nd Livestock and Poultry
3rd Leadership and Parliamentary Procedure
Tailoring/ Dressmaking
4th Mushroom Production
Pastries and Baking
Beekeeping
-arranged and conducted in February 2019 through
CRAC. Participants are from the different barangays of
the Municipality.
Soap making
-for the women of Loakan was also conducted through the
initiative of researchers under the Institute of Social Research
and Development and the Department of Social Science,
College of Arts and Sciences.

16. Lack of Organization
While the SSG, UPAO, DevCom and R&E were conducting the relief
operations, other members of the BSU community were also
conducting their own drives. A definite guideline on how the University
could organize all its efforts of aid in times of disaster could be crafted.
Delivery of Relief Goods to Far-Flung Areas
Itogon is naturally a mountainous area and most communities could be
reached through hiking making it difficult for relief goods to reach
them.
LESSONS AND CHALLENGES

17. Long-Term Needs of The Community
The short-term needs of the affected areas are relatively doable and
many organizations have committed and delivered help. However, the
long-term needs of the affected people such as alternative or
sustainable livelihood, rehabilitation of infrastructure and stress
debriefing will be a challenge.

18. • Institutionalization of Tugon Para sa Itogon or a Donation Drive
Program by the University
RECCOMENDATION