New York, NY. The formal list of beneficiaries of the Rain Love on Manila cause will soon be posted here. We are gathering the necessary information and identification in order for people to know whom their generosity will greatly affect. For the meantime, the tentative list includes: officemates in JWT Manila, factory workers in Dairy Zest Corporation, Krueger relatives in Laguna City.
If anyone wishes to suggest any other Filipino families they know who are in grave need of compassion, please write rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com, and we will figure them into the database.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Rain Love on Manila, New York Team
New York, NY. We're slowly building ourselves a team in New Jersey/New York, thanks to the power of friendship, and Facebook. New friends, please get in touch with me through Facebook or rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com as to your schedule this weekend (Friday-Sunday) for the initial meet. Thank you!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Rain Love is in Manila, Davao and New York
Friends, Rain Love on Manila is a relief campaign that is active in Metro Manila, Davao City and New York City. Please contact us at rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com, if you are interested in any of the following types of outreach:
1) sourcing white shirts, tote bags, sticker labels
2) printing the Rain Love on Manila design onto the shirts, tote bags and sticker labels
3) selling the Rain Love on Manila shirts, tote bags and sticker labels
4) collecting donations in kind
5) assembling the donations into balikbayan/cargo boxes for shipping
6) reposting the Rain Love on Manila design/profile picture on social networks like Facebook, etc.
7) other ideas you may have about helping using the Rain Love on Manila design
Thank you for your continued support.
1) sourcing white shirts, tote bags, sticker labels
2) printing the Rain Love on Manila design onto the shirts, tote bags and sticker labels
3) selling the Rain Love on Manila shirts, tote bags and sticker labels
4) collecting donations in kind
5) assembling the donations into balikbayan/cargo boxes for shipping
6) reposting the Rain Love on Manila design/profile picture on social networks like Facebook, etc.
7) other ideas you may have about helping using the Rain Love on Manila design
Thank you for your continued support.
Rain Love Manpower Needed
New York, NY. This is a shout-out to old JWT Manila officemates who are trying to bring traffic into this site. Thank you for driving your friends, family, acquaintances on Facebook and other networks onto Rain Love on Manila.
So far the task is now to find people who can either (1) help source the raw materials to make this campaign tangible (white shirts, tote bags, sticker decals); (2) help print the graphic onto the materials; and, (3) help sell them and collect funds to be wired back to the Philippines.
Please, New York, lend a hand with me. Thank you.
So far the task is now to find people who can either (1) help source the raw materials to make this campaign tangible (white shirts, tote bags, sticker decals); (2) help print the graphic onto the materials; and, (3) help sell them and collect funds to be wired back to the Philippines.
Please, New York, lend a hand with me. Thank you.
The Turning Tide
Manila, Philippines. Without a doubt, each of us has been following whatever news we could gather through the tv, the radio, facebook and twitter. When you look at our country from a macro level, it seems like we are the perennial recipients of worst luck ever. As if the whole country, all 96 million of us, decided to break a mirror all at the same time. Walked under a ladder and stepped on a crack, break your mother’s back.
After a while it gets to you. True, it’s gotten so ridiculous that people have become numb to the misfortune we’ve had. It’s reached the point past being ridiculous and into the incredible and just these past few days, into the stratosphere of the freakin’ unbelievable.
Lately, the shared posts by people who no longer believe the front pages of the newspapers have been at an all time high. An editorial here, an article there, a picture of Mikey buying alcohol in a convenience store at the worst possible time. Everything wrong and corrupt is coming out. And people have been getting angry. Well, angrier than usual. First with Cory then with Ondoy, people have been shaken out of their numbness to again, feel something. Some people might call it patriotism. Perhaps it is simply the feeling that we are taking back control of our destiny as a country.
Yesterday, I went out and saw what our country looked like at a micro level. More importantly, I saw what our country could be. I don’t need to tell you the heroism, generosity and kindness people have shown these past few days, you’ve all read about it already online or on tv. More importantly, many of you are in fact, already part of that story of heroism, generosity and kindness. You see? This is what we could be.
Disasters will happen. Corruption will happen. We are here. 96 Million of us are here. And one by one, we can begin to turn the tide.
Don’t stop here.
Rain Love Reaches Davao
New York, NY. Thanks to a fellow Atenean's repost of the Rain Love profile photo/design, curiosity was sparked among far-removed others who have expressed interest in using the Rain Love brand as banner designs to identify relief points in Davao City. Thank you M. Cruz and R. Fuentes for widening the Rain Love campaign.
Rain Love Threads
© 2009 by Deb Flores. All Rights Reserved.
New York, NY. Rain Love Shirts will soon be produced. Connecting with a former JWT copywriter and fellow Atenean friend gave rise to the very real plan of producing Rain Love on Manila shirts in Manila, Philippines. Please stay tuned. Let us clothe our Pilipinas.
Rain Love in Color
© 2009 by Deb Flores. All Rights Reserved.
Top. Rain Love on Manila, in black, white and red.
Bottom. Rain Love on Manila, in CMYK, and the Philippine colors.
Rain Only Love
© 2009 by Deb Flores. All Rights Reserved.
This is the only way I know how to help.
New York, NY. Last September 27, the tropical storm Ondoy/Ketsana sank the better part of my country, the Philippines that the unrecoverable damages to private and public property approach billions, and the death toll that rose with the water level still rises today.
In their vigorous water scooping so as not to let the water submerge the electrical outlets,
my family is spared. However, some people we know were not. My officemates in JWT Manila were stricken, and one of my best friend's clan from Laguna now is hopeless and helpless.
I don't have any money. I'm relying heavily on my family's support from all the way here. But I want to do something. And I do design. So this is how I thought I would help.
I've designed this Rain Love on Manila graphic. I feel it's time to weather the storm with a showering of compassion. This is the language that I speak and wish to convey. I hope that people everywhere who believe that this message is valid and true, share this design with anyone and everyone they know.
I'm looking for means to get the Rain Love on Manila graphic printed on white shirts, tote bags, and sticker labels. I think if people see more of this, we channel a positive energy of support, and collect funding that we can wire back to the Philippines.
I need help. I'm not as liquid as I'd like. Please help me look for these raw materials (in Chinatown or in your own closets and balikbayan boxes) or help me make them (I don't know how to silkscreen). I am offering my apartment as a mini-sweat shop to do some of these things.
Would anyone out there be willing to lend a hand, or buy these finished goods for the love of Manila, or for the empathy toward a Filipino friend?
A dollar can feed a family for a day in the Philippines. Our minimum wage is only the equivalent of 60 cents a day here in New York. Help me feed, clothe and shelter my neighbors in the Philippines.
If you want to know more about how to help me "rain love on Manila", please email me at rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com.
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