ARENA-7 Helps Repack Family Food Packs At VDRC

The Association of Regional Executives of National Agencies in Region 7 (ARENA-7) has
lined up several activities in celebration of the 45th anniversary of the National Career
Executive Service.

As a kick-off activity, the ARENA-7 helped in repacking food packs at the Department of
Social Welfare and Development’s Visayas Disaster Response Center (VDRC) in Tingub,
Mandaue City on October 12, 2018.

“this is our way of celebrating our 45 th year, ARENA has organized this volunteer work to help
DSWD and also to help the victims of calamity who will benefiting these food packs the we
repack now,” said Efren Carreon, regional director of the National Economic and
Development Authority (NEDA) and Interim President of ARENA-7.

Assistant Regional Director for Administrations, Grace Q. Subong, welcomed the volunteers
and thanked them for the effort of coming to VDRC and sparing their time in repacking the
food packs. She also congratulated ARENA-7 for its 45th anniversary.

A total of 101 representatives from different national agencies joined the activity.
Director Carreon added that they will do this again next year together with DSWD. He said
this is a good experience for the regional directors and their staff to be doing the repacking of
food packs intended for the disaster affected families.

The 45-day celebration has just started and in coming days there will be more volunteer work
that they will be doing. They will have an early Christmas gift for the children in partnership
with DSWD.

NEDA will also conduct a financial literacy to the retirees on November 5, 2018.