Ateneo, India university sign deal to promote disaster resilience By CONSUELO MARQUEZ, GMA News
Published May 5, 2021 5:53pm The Ateneo de Manila University and Indian-based Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) signed a deal to boost exchanges on research and activities that would tackle disaster field studies, Embassy of India in Manila said Wednesday. Under the signed memorandum of agreement, Ateneo and TISS will promote exchange of students, faculty members, and researchers; placement of students within the university or with industry partners for internship; exchange of information and academic resources of mutual interest; and activities such as collaborative research, joint symposia and guest lectures.
Published April 22, 2021, 7:59 PM
Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chairman Senator Richard Gordon expressed his gratitude to leaders of various schools and local government units (LGUs) who did not hesitate to extend a helping hand in the humanitarian organization’s pandemic response efforts.
“This is the first time from memory that all these schools helped simultaneously and this sends a very strong signal – that we should learn from the leaders of these schools,” Gordon said during the virtual event on April 21. “Leadership is not a position, it is action,” he added.
The event paved the way for the virtual signing of the memorandum of agreement between PRC and De La Salle-College of St. Benilde (DLS-CSB) in Manila. PRC turned unused classrooms in the school into a 135-bed capacity isolation facility to serve asymptomatic patients from the city.
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PRC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Senator Richard Gordon, in a virtual press conference via Zoom on Wednesday, April 14, said that with the help of their partners, the isolation facilities in various schools in Metro Manila are expected to become operational this week “to prevent asymptomatic spreaders from infecting their loved ones at home.”
“We will make them all operational,” Gordon said – noting that all their partners are coordinating for the essentials which include medicines and food – among others. “We have to ensure the sanitation and health of the people so whatever we will have to do, we will do it,” he added.
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In a joint statement released by Time’s Up Ateneo and the Sanggunian Commission on Anti-Sexual Misconduct and Violence, the Ateneo administration was asked to “duly honor survivors, their healing, and their vision of justice.”
“We call for a survivor-centered and trauma-informed approach in reforming our systems to address SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence). We call on the university administration to be true to the principle of the Code that commits to do no harm and to refrain from the revictimization and retraumatization of survivors,” the statement read.
The groups also sought an apology from the administration for the “misleading” memorandum it released on Oct. 23, 2019, which “discredited the stories and voices of survivors and their advocates.”