2011 Annual Report - PhilDHRRA-Mindanao

TECHNOLOGY OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY HELP
Our Vision is a stable institution working for human dignity and community empowerment towards sustainable development
TOUCH PERFORMANCE 2011-2012 (First Semester Only)
Organization. We streamlined the structure of
the Foundation to give the training and
consultancy service more flexibility and
effectiveness to operate in the market with
professionalism and autonomy. The unit was
registered in 2011 with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) and is now called
D e v e l o p m e n t O p t i o n s a n d S o c i a l
Entrepreneurship, Inc. or DOSE. It is holding
office at TOUCH and maintains its own staff.
Management. A BOT management take-over
was instituted in the last quarter of 2010 as a
result of the disappearance without leave of the
previous Executive Director. After one year of
implementation, the BOT ended the take-over
and prepared the way for a regular management
and conducted a search for a new ED. After the
appointment of new ED, the BOT decided to
dissolve the title of the ED and renamed it as
Managing Director, the COO function of the
organization. The CEO was lodged at the office of
the President in conformity with the provision of
the By-Laws approved by SEC. The President
as CEO does not receive compensation and
preserved the primacy of volunteers in the
direction of the Foundation.
Sendong. On midnight of December 16, 2011,
CDO was choked by a wild water and lost more
than two thousand
persons and thousands of homes.
TOUCH volunteers converted the office into an
operations center and mobilized other partner NGOs
to work on relief and rescue. Together with five
PhilDHRRA NGOs (MUCAARD, MASS-SPECC,
AGV, GROUP, Hagdan), TOUCH distributed food and
relief goods to nine highly flooded barangays of
Cagayan de Oro. Supported by relief agencies
(OXFAM, Christian Aid, LWR, FPE, CURE and
PhilDHRRA), TOUCH packed goods, clothes, cash,
kitchen utensils, beddings and hygiene kits and
distributed the same to families in evacuation
centers and wash out villages around the city in
coordination with DSWD, LGU and private
groups. Until today, bulk of relief goods from
international aid groups are still arriving and in
turn distributed by the TOUCH volunteers round
the clock.
CURE. TOUCH distributed medical
supplies to disaster areas hit by Typhoon
Washi with the help of a US-based aid
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agency (Commission on Urgent Relief and
Equipment). The supplies and equipment
delivered through the rural health units and
barangay health stations in CDO and Misamis
Oriental.
Silip Basura. It is an annual volunteer program
of TOUCH in partnership with the LGUs of
Barangay Silipon and the Municipality of Libona
and is on its second year. The original plan of the
program is to clean Silipon of plastic and other
garbage. The barangay pursue the initiative by
adopting an ordinance to require all residents to
keep their own bins and segregation. On the
second Silip Basura, the activity included tree
planting to improve the ecology of the Kitanglad
mountain range. The second Silip Basura is very
symbolic because the participants were able to
view Bobonawan river, the main tributary of
Cagayan river and Sendong flood.