QCADAAC and QCPU initiates InfoBoard project launch

By Ezra Guerrero

September 28. Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Quezon City Polytechnic University (QCPU) and Quezon City Anti Drug Abuse Advisory Council (QCADAAC) InfoBoard project launch held at QCPU Gymnasium. Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte, Dep. Dir. of PDEA (Regional chapter) Gil Castro and QCPU Vice President for administration Melani B. Bigkas also signed the MOA. QCADAAC has the same advocacy with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) when it comes to its anti-drug abuse campaign. It aims to prevent and eliminate drug abuse not only through closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras or via entrapment operations/raid but also through texting. And this time, with the help of QCPU students as the MOA signed between QCADAAC and QCPU. The InfoBoard project, from the word itself also provides information together with Smart Prepaid network to inform students through SMS if theres an announcement regarding class suspension and other anti-drug related cues. Receivers of the said information would be the students who had received SIM cards from Smart Prepaid and QCADAAC. Through sending information via text message pertaining to this advocacy at 700-33733 (700-DFREE) you can also make yourselves as part of this campaign. Said Mayor Bautista. As Mayor Bautista introduced the said hotline, Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte added that hotline number 700-33733 is (now) currently available to all Smart subscribers only as of this time. The MOA signing made more lively as it affirm the InfoBoard project launch through Smart for providing a total of 1000 Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards to all students participated in the event. May this serve as an instrument, an instrument that will serve as a weapon to fight against drug abuse to make Quezon City drug-free. Said Vice Mayor Belmonte to all the students who received the SIM card. Upon giving SIM cards, the students also signed a waiver as an agreement between QCADAAC and the student beneficiaries to receive text messages from the said government agency. *