Jesuits offer relocation site for ‘Sendong’ victims in CDO; Reds, inmates donate cash
By Cong Corrales, http://www.mindanews.com

  CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/27 December) — The city government recently received a Jesuit-owned land to serve as a relocation site for the victims of the flood brought by Tropical Storm Sendong, and cash-donations from even the most unlikely donors—the local revolutionary movement and inmates at the provincial jail of Misamis Oriental.

In a letter to City Mayor Vicente Emano dated December 23, Xavier University president Fr. Roberto Yap said the Jesuit-run school has decided to donate its five-hectare property in upland barangay Lumbia to City Hall to serve as a relocation site for “our sisters and brothers who have lost (their) houses during Typhoon Sendong and cannot return to their previous sites which are flood-prone and with geohazard risks.”

XU’s board of trustees decided to “grant the local government of Cagayan de Oro City, usufruct rights to five-hectares of the university’s property in Lumbia as resettlement site for families whose houses were destroyed during Typhoon Sendong.”

The university also “commits to work with your local government; regional and national government agencies; local, national and international non-government organizations and foundations; and the private sector in developing this relocation site in an environmentally-sustainable way.”

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