The UP Alumni Association Iloilo held a bloodletting activity on May 27, 2023 at the UP Visayas covered court, Miagao campus.
Members of the 3rd Civil Military Operations Battalion, 61st Infantry Battalion, Philippine Coastguard, Bureau of Fire Protection, Miagao PNP, and the UPV ROTC were the blood donors.
The event was attended by organizers and sponsors, which included Ms. Irma Diaz-Lim, members of UPAA Iloilo Board of Trustees, Mr. Michael Francis Villa of UP High School in Iloilo Class of 1991, some members of iAmUPHi, and Office of Alumni Relations Director, Prof. Rey Carlo Gonzales. The OAR staff were also present and assisted in the facilitation of the bloodletting.
The beneficiaries of the activity are the faculty and staff of UPV, the alumni, as well as the institutions that sent blood donors.
(This article, written by Mary Lyncen Fernandez, was first published on the website of UP Visayas on 31 May 2023)