Written by: Irene Nicole Madera, STEFTI Herald
Date: March 2020

STEFTI is not only known not only for its quality of education but also the values that each member of its community upholds. Throughout the school year, the school shows great participation in the community with numerous relief operations by its students, faculty and staff.

With the scouts spearheading the campaign for the victims of the Taal Volcano Eruption, STEFTI was able to donate 110 boxes of relief which contained clothes, medicines, hygiene kits and other basic necessities that the victims will be needing to survive the after effects of the eruption. The school also gave relief to the victims of Typhoon Ursula with their Christmas box project donated by the students yearly.

In light of recent events, our school’s faculty and staff were able to form a charity organization called Spotted Project to respond to the COVID 19 crisis. The organization gave more than 700 relief packs to our brothers and sisters in need, reaching different parts of Leyte. Their recipients were mostly pedicab and tricycle drivers, construction workers, peddlers, displaced private employees and those who could barely provide for their own needs in the communities they went to.            

Other teachers also conducted a food drive and were able to distribute more than 500 relief packs to the people in the northern barrios of Tacloban, to the front liners, and volunteers in the nearby towns.