One La Salle Relief Drive: Yolanda (Update 5)

Update 1 : 11 November 2013, 04:25 PM - Added details for De La Salle University - Dasmariñas and University of Saint La Salle.

Update 2  :  12 November 2013, 12:20 PM - Added details for De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. 

Update 3  :  14 November 2013, 4:22 PM - Updated bank details of USLS and added De La Salle Health Sciences Institute information.

Update 4  :  19 November 2013, 10:27 PM - Updated details of DLSL relief ops and added  De La Salle Solidarietà Internazionale  - ONLUS information.

Update 5  :  2 December 2013, 2:11 PM - Added  La Salle University relief operation details.

The Philippine Lasallian Family is banding together once again for relief operations for our fellow Filipinos who were affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda. Various La Salle Schools have begun taking in donations and volunteers.

Monetary Donations

For cash and check donations, you may deposit to any of the following accounts at any branch of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) Bank (NOT RCBC Savings):

Account Name: De La Salle Brothers, Inc. - Yolanda

  • Peso Account: 1296-714778
  • US Dollar Account:  8296-001156
     Swift Code: RCBC PHMM

We request you to email the validated deposit slip to bee.cruz@delasalle.ph for proper acknowledgment and issuance of official receipt. You may also opt to fax it to +63 2 721 5049.

For more information, you may contact Keane Palatino (+63 917 500 5323) or Gladstone Cuarteros (+63 917 843 9468). 

Below are specific details of the relief drives of the La Salle Schools:

De La Salle Santiago Zobel School

DLSZ is accepting relief donations at Gate 2, 3. & 7. Preferably rice, noodles, canned goods, bottles water & mats. For cash donations for relief & post rehabilitation: Please deposit to the school's account below and send a scanned copy of the deposit slip to lesacasr@dlszobel.edu.ph and jacintojn@dlszobel.edu.ph for proper acknowledgment.

  • Account Name: De La Salle Santiago Zobel School
  • Bank Address: Union Bank of the Philippines, Ayala Alabang Branch
  • Peso Account: 018030006691
  • US Dollar Account: 018101009418

Please call or text Mr. Jayjay Jacinto at +63 917 859 7602 and Ms. Evangeline De Peralta at +63 917 563 8870 for queries. 

De La Salle University

We are asking Lasallian for donations. This can be done through any of the following means:

For in-campus donation (cash or in-kind):

Deposit it through the DLSU Cashier. Inform them to credit your donations to the DLSU Relief Fund (Acct # 600-135). Please do not forget to send one copy of the official receipt to Ms. Jan Trampe of COSCA for proper acknowledgement. 

Send all of your in-kind donations to COSCA.

For off-campus donation (peso):

You may go to any UCPB Branch and deposit to:
Account Name: De La Salle University
Account Number: 120-1147119

For off-campus donation (dollars):

  • Account Name: De La Salle University
  • Account Number: 01-120-300035-8
  • Swift Code: UCPBHMM

For web-based donation:

Visit www.globalgiving.org
On the donor search, type in Philippines Disaster Relief (project # 3916)
Make sure you click on the Philippine Disaster Relief Project being implemented by De La Salle University. You may use this facility for your credit and debit cards donations.

For more inquiries, please contact Mr. Joseph Rosal, Coordinator for Community Engagement, COSCA at +63 2 525 4267 or local 147. 

La Salle Green Hills

La Salle Green Hills will be accepting monetary donations starting Monday, 11 November, for the victims of super typhoon "Yolanda". Kindly course your donations to the Lasallian Mission Office or the Accounting Office. For check donations, please make it payable to LA SALLE GREEN HILLS - CALAMITY FUND. For more information, you may contact Mr. Eugene Young of the LSGH Lasallian Mission Office at +63 2 721 2000 local 350.

De La Salle Araneta University

DLSAU is accepting monetary donations for the victims of super typhoon Yolanda. Please see bank details below:

  • Bank of Commerce
  • Account name: De La Salle Araneta University
  • Account number: 001-00-000868-7

Kindly email your deposit slip to Mr. RJ Angeles at raejyn.angeles@dlsau.delasalle.ph or fax it at +63 2 330 9125.

University of St. La Salle

USLS is accepting donations (food, water, clothes, medicine) and cash.

Drop-off Centers:

  • Gate 2 Security Office (Open 24/7)
  • Balayan
  • Center for External Relations
  • Institute for Negros Development
  • Office for Student Affairs
  • Vocations Office
  • IS - Community Services Centers

USLS has set up a special bank account with BPI (La Salle branch) for Yolanda typhoon victims.

  • Account name: University of St La Salle Relief Fund
  • Bank of the Philippine Islands: 3341-001209

For inquiries, please call +63 34 434 6100 local 218, 122, or 133.

De La Salle Lipa

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De La Salle Lipa is accepting donations in cash and in kind, below are the details.

Donation in cash may be done through the following:

For Peso Account

  • Bank: Union Bank
  • Account Name: De La Salle Lipa, Inc.
  • Account Number: 002720003196
  • SWIFT Code: UBPHPHMM

 For Dollar Account

  • Bank: Philippine National Bank
  • Account Name: De La Salle Lipa, Inc.
  • Account Number: 432-704036-2
  • SWIFT Code: PNBMPHMM

Cash donations may be also be made through the following:

  • DLSL’s Cashiers, Student Activity Office, and the Community Involvement Office. An acknowledgement receipt will be issued.
  • Mission and Mass collections at the Capilla De San Juan Bautista De La Salle. 

 The following donation in kind may be dropped off at the College Lobby.

  1. Rice
  2. Ready-to-eat food (no-cook/no-heat, possibly in foil pack)
  3. Canned goods
  4. Biscuits
  5. Toiletries (bath soap, toothbrush, and toothpaste)
  6. Candles

 For inquiries, please call 043 756-5555 local 277 or 317 or call 981-1133 or 981-1177.

De La Salle University-Dasmariñas

The Lasallian Community Development Center (LCDC) is knocking on the hearts of the Lasallian community to extend aid to calamity victims.

The LCDC will be accepting donations from Mondays through Thursdays (8am - 6pm) and Fridays (8am - 5pm). The following donations will be accepted:

  1. Food items  such as canned goods, noodles, coffee, sugar, milk, water and other    instant food and drinks (cup noodles, biscuits/bread, energy drink, chocolate/milk drink, etc)
  2. old clothes, specifically children's clothes
  3. blankets, sleeping mat (banig)
  4. medicine

For cash donations, you may deposit to:

  • Account Name: DLSU-Dasmariñas
  • Bank of the Philippine Islands 
  • Account No: 0961 - 0041 - 44 

 

Please scan the validated deposit slip and send via email to bcnarvaez@dlsud.edu.ph. For your queries, you may contact us at +63 46 481 1939 or +63 46 481 1900 local 3068 or e-mail at lcdc@dlsud.edu.ph

De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde

DLS-CSB is setting up facilities to generate donations for the survivors of the super typhoon. Donation centers are up in the lobby areas of our three campuses.

For those donating in kind, used clothes and noodles are not priority items for now.

Below is a list of preferred relief goods:

  • Ready-to eat food (items that do not need heating or cooking to be consumed)
  • Bottled water
  • Canned goods
  • Biscuits
  • Rice
  • Toiletries (bath soap, toothbrush, toothpaste)
  • Sanitary napkins
  • Detergent soaps
  • Mats
  • Blankets

Cash donations may now be made through bank transfer. To donate, please use the following account information.

For peso remittances:

  • Account Name: Lasallian Educational Innovators Foundation (De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde), Inc.
  • Banco de Oro (BDO) Savings Account No: 4580243334

For dollar remittances:

  • Account Name: Lasallian Educational Innovators Foundation (De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde), Inc.
  • United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) FCD No: 011203000139

The College is also accepting cash donations from 9am to 4pm at the following offices:

  • Taft Campus – CLM Office
  • AKIC Campus – CLM Office
  • SDA Campus – LMSL Office

DLS-CSB personnel may also donate through iPLEDGE which allows monetary donations through salary deduction.

Counseling services are available to Lasallians who are affected by the typhoon. You may go to the Center for Counseling Services from 9am to 5pm.

Students and personnel who wish to volunteer may sign up at the Center for Social Action.

For inquiries, please call the Center for Social Action Volunteers at +63 2 526-7441 local 258 or 266.

De La Salle Health Sciences Institute

DLSHSI Social Action Office is accepting cash donations through the following offices:

  • Lasallian Formation & Social Action Office (4th Floor, Old CM Bldg.)
  • Lasallian Mission & Linkages (Rm. 8109, Ground Floor, Wang Bldg.)
  • Hospital Information Office (Lobby, Bldg. 30

You may also deposit directly to the bank account below:

  • Banco de Oro (BDO) Aguinaldo Highway Branch
  • Account Name: De La Salle Health Sciences Institute
  • Savings Account No: 4300244165

For check donations, please make the check/s payable to Hermano (San) Miguel Febres Cordero Medical Education Foundation, Inc.

Kindly fax the deposit slip and reply form to +63 2 988 3100 local 8029. You may also call DLSHSI for pick up of cash donations within Metro Manila or Cavite.

 De La Salle Solidarietà Internazionale - ONLUS

With the devastation of super typhoon Haiyan, the Lasallian community is coming together to offer assistance to our fellow Brothers, associates, friends and families. The Brothers report considerable need for both immediate support, in the form of food and water supplies, as well as long-term support for reconstruction in damaged classrooms.

Individuals and groups who wish to financially assist in helping our schools and communities restore operations can make a donation to De La Salle Solidarietà Internazionale - ONLUS:

  • Banca Popolare di Sondrio
  • IBAN for €: T52 R056 9603 2070 00007241X70
  • IBAN for $: IT10 M056 9603 207V ARUS 0007241
  • SWIFT: POSOIT22
  • Reason: EMERGENCY PHILIPPINES – HAIYAN


or through PayPal via our USA affiliate La Salle International Foundation (http://www.lasalleinternational.org). All funds collected will go towards educational, health and humanitarian relief for the Philippines. (http://www.lasalle.org/en/2013/11/lasallians-respond-to-typhoon-haiyan/)

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LSU Institutional Concerns Office is accepting cash donations through the following offices:

  • Research, Extension , Alumni & Linkages Office (Ground Floor, La Salle Building)
  • Institutional Social Concerns Office (AC 21, 2nd  Floor, Arts Centet Bldg.)
  • Information Office (LSU Entrance Lobby)

You may also deposit directly to the bank account below:

  • Account Name: La Salle University Ozamiz, Inc. – Yolanda
  • Account Number: 003190006053

Kindly send electronic copy of your deposit slip  to isco137@gmail.com for proper acknowledgment and issuance of official receipt. You may also opt to fax it to +63 521 1010.

For more information, you may contact  Dr. Rezyl R. Mallorca (+63 926 339 1818) or Anilou Dilao (+63 927 715 7062 or +63 920 746 6686). 

We also accept the following relief goods:

  1. Canned goods
  2. Rice
  3. Bottled water
  4. Toiletries
  5. Biscuits
  6. Mats
  7. Blankets 

USLS Alumnus Member of 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Winning Organization

The Visayan Daily Star reports that Franz Ontal, University of St. La Salle High School Class of 1980, is head of inspector training of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which recently won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.

Mr. Ontal graduated with a degree in Biology and took premed studies at USLS. He immigrated to New York, USA and later served as a paramedic and emergency medical technician instructor with the New York City Emergency Medical Services (EMS). He started in OPCW as a medic for the chemical weapons inspection and disposal teams in 2005. 

Last 11 October, the OPCW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.”

Source: The Visayan Daily Star

Vocation Road Tour: Bacolod

Last 26-28 June, Br. Alex Diaz FSC was here in Bacolod City for his Vocation Road Tour. The tour consisted of visiting the different La Salle schools present in the Philippine Sector. Its purpose is to promote the De La Salle Brothers vocation. On his first day, he had a talk at the Gallaga Theater with USLS-IS High School students from the IS Acolytes, the Search-In Core group, and the Student Affairs Council. He shared about his vocation, what it feels like to be a Brother and how he was able to respond to God’s call.

In the afternoon he had a question and answer forum with two selected Grade 11 classes. He also interacted with some selected high school students through the Brew with Bro at the High School Campus Ministry Office. There, he was able to answer questions about the Brothers, which were formed from the curious minds of the young boys who wanted to know more. He also talked about his different experiences as a brother, the steps he took to become a brother, his main ministry work as the National Vocations Promoter, and many other things, hoping to inspire some of the boys present.

In the evening, Br. Alex had a meeting with the Bacolod BACon (Brothers, Aspirants, and Contacts) about his plans and goals in promoting vocations for this year and the following years. True to its famous hospitality, the dinner was hosted by the Vocations Ministry Office at the Moon Café, a Mexican inspired restaurant. After having dinner and sharing stories, the group went to another famous culinary spot, the Calea for dessert.

On the Second day, Br. Alex had a talk with College students from selected RS classes in the morning and in the afternoon. There was also a lunch meeting at the Ledesma Boardroom with the Local Vocation Team (LVT). After Br. Alex’s talk in the afternoon, he went to the Bacolod Brother’s house to again have Brew with Bro with 20 selected College students and Faculty from the IS. There, the students and faculty interacted with the brothers while having a small merienda.

On the third day Br. Alex went to St. Joseph School-La Salle to meet with the newly formed Local Vocation Team and also had conversations with the students.

Last 29 June, for the first time in the Philippine history, the Sector reached fifty Filipino brothers. And hopefully with Br. Alex at the helm and the Vocation Road Tours, fifty is just the beginning. Truly, the Vocation Road Tour serves as an instrument that will help us start to respond to God’s call. It is a chance to consider another option in life and to choose what we really want to do, to be the person we want to be or to be the person that God intended us to be. Let us all help each other in promoting vocations and continue to live Jesus in our hearts forever.

—By Emmanuel John Paul Locsin

Project FREE: Tarlac

Last 22 June, some 680 teachers from various public schools in the province of Tarlac received their doctorates and masters degrees in the field of education through the Project Flagships to Reach Educational Excellence (Project FREE). The project is an initiative of the Eduardo Cojuangco Foundation and is under the auspices of the University of St. La Salle in cooperation with the Tarlac State University and the local government of the province of Tarlac. Aimed at improving the quality of education through improvements in the education of teachers, the project previously graduated a batch of 780 public school teachers also from Tarlac in June 2013. Faculty from Tarlac State University (TSU) and the University of St. La Salle (USLS) collaborated in mentoring the public school teachers of Tarlac who graduated from this program. 

On hand to witness the graduation rites were project sponsors, Ambassador Eduardo and Mrs. Gretchen Cojuangco; members of the local government of Tarlac led by Gov. Victor Yap and Congressman Henry Cojuangco; USLS officials led by Br. Raymundo Suplido FSC, Dr. Therese Jochico, Vice-Chancellor for Academics and Dr. Elsie Coscolluela, Project FREE Director; and key officials of the Department of Education led by graduation guest speaker, DepEd Secretary, Br. Armin Luistro FSC. 

Tarlac is the second province to have benefitted from Project FREE. The fourth district of Negros Occidental was the first to have benefitted from Project FREE in 2002. The Eduardo Cojuanco Foundation, in cooperation with Br. Gus Boquer, then president of University of St. La Salle in Bacolod, launched the project in Negros Occidental where 1,340 public school teachers were able to earn doctoral and masters degrees in education. Follow-up studies have shown marked improvements in the performance of students in public schools in national exams after their teachers underwent further studies.