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D&Q donates vanload of medications, goods
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Posted on Nov 26 2013
Dickerson & Quinn, a privately owned international distributor of consumer and food products, donated yesterday a vanload of medications and other goods worth $5,099 for the victims of supertyphoon Haiyan (Yolanda), which reduced many cities and towns in the central Philippines into rubble.
United Filipino Organization officials received D&Q’s donation yesterday afternoon. The goods were delivered to LBC Mabuhay in Susupe. LBC is shipping the donated “balikbayan” boxes for free to LBC Foundation, which will then turn them over to the Philippine National Red Cross.
D&Q resident manager Max P. Kretzers told reporters that it is obvious that everybody needs something to help the typhoon victims in the Philippines.
Kretzers said their company makes donations on a regular basis to different charitable organizations.
“Philippine blood runs through Saipan. My wife is half-Filipina. Her father was one of the first Filipino contract workers. I have Filipino workers. We’re just all connected so you have to do something,” the resident manager said.
D&Q’s donated goods are mostly over-the-counter medications for cough, sore throat, runny nose, fever reducer, pain reliever, itchy eye relief, and several cases of breakfast cereals, 30 boxes of chicken gravy, among other products.
UFO president Annamae Adaza said they are so grateful that D&Q made the donation through UFO.
“So we have to make sure that those donations will go straight to the victims,” Adaza said.
Adaza also disclosed that GIG Discotheque, through Niizeki Saipan Co. Ltd. marketing manager Ayuko Iwane, donated a check worth $1,760 Monday night for typhoon victims.
Adaza said the money will be turned over to ABS-CBN’s Sagip Kapamilya program.
The UFO president said they have already filled 212 balikbayan boxes in the last three days of sorting donated in-kind items at the LBC Mabuhay storeroom.
Another sorting was scheduled last night.
LBC customer associate Manuelito Lucas said they will be accepting relief goods until Nov. 30, 2013. He said a 40-foot container has a load capacity of 400 boxes.
