Facebook delivers help to Ondoy victims.
University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law bar examiners who lost their permits when their houses were submerged in floodwaters do not have to worry that they might not be allowed to take their exams on Sunday, October 4.
UP Law professor Theodore Te is offering help to get them new permits. He said so himself in his Facebook account.
“Please let us at PEP-BAR OPS know if you need help with your permits, which may have been washed out. You may reach me through my cell phone, this account, email or through the Bar Ops Hotline,” he posted at 1 p.m. on Monday.
The last of the four installments in the bar exams should have been held on Sunday, September 27, but it was postponed because of tropical storm Ondoy.
Apparently, it is a big issue among bar examiners. In a comment posted on Te’s facebook page, a fellow lawyer said Supreme Court spokesman Midas Marquez has acknowledged the problem and vowed that the Bar Confidant would assist the victims.
Since Saturday, Facebook had been a receptacle of various forms of assistance to Ondoy victims—news and information on the storm, initiatives taken to assist victims, prayers, and contact numbers for various purposes.
Schools and companies organized relief operations and called on volunteers in Facebook. The site was also deluged by photos of the devastation wrought by typhoon Ondoy personally taken by the users.
Accessible, free
Accessible and free, the social networking site had been effective in disseminating information.
“Facebook is effective because there is a face behind every post that makes it credible to the reader. Since the one posting is presumably one's friend, there is greater trust. Of course, some friends are more credible than others,” shares prolific Facebook user Ateneo School of Government (ASoG) Dean Antonio La Vina.
La Vina had to fly to Bangkok on Sunday to attend a climate change conference. But thanks to Facebook, the distance didn’t stop him from organizing the ASoG Task Force Ondoy.
In a note posted on his page, La Vina on Monday created the task force that he envisioned would be “at the center of the national conversation on why this happened and more importantly what steps to take so that it never happens again.”
“Through this memorandum, I constitute ASoG Task Force Ondoy with all ASoG Managers and Staff (regardless of employment status) as Members,” he wrote in the note.
In the same note, La Vina named the leaders of the task force and then gave out specific instructions.
“For our affected colleagues, I have set aside resources to give them immediate assistance. While we will contribute to the greater effort, it is also important for us to set aside significant resources for them,” La Vina wrote.
La Vina is consultant to presidential adviser for climate change former Senator Heherson Alvarez. – abs-cbnNEWS.com/ Newsbreak
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