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By: Aretha Capistrano
The Adamson News, the official institutional publication of Adamson University published the actions of the student- athletes, alumnus and other personals on their response to the effects of CoVid- 19 and Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) on the 1st of April, 2020.
Charity Over Indifference and Despair, or project COVID of the combined institutions of the Saint Vincent De Paul Parish and Adamson university. The AdU student- athletes residing on the University dorms and personals that are also present inside the campus gave aid by repacking hygiene kits for the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) personnel.
While AdU Alumni began to create donation drives and fundraisings for medical materials and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the frontliners of University of the Philippines- PGH.
Furthermore, providing relief efforts to the street dwellers, feeding programs and food distribution to disadvantaged areas or barangays are also the designation of the project.
The Vincentian priests and members of the community also cemented the charity name of the university and Saint Vincent De Paul by giving assistance to the affected of the virus with the help of the group project posted on the social media with the title of Vincent Helps. Raising over a million pesos and providing service to families from Quezon City, Caloocan and Rizal Province.
Vincent Helps may have been present after the Taal Volcano eruption but until to this present day the group still instills in providing aid and service to the poor; Same to the students and personnel of Adamson University and Vincentian Community.
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