How Far Your Donations Will Go

A donation of:
$18 provides a family with rice for 2 weeks
$90 feeds 5 families for 2 weeks
$180 feeds 10 families for 2 weeks

And if you can go that extra mile, $18,000 will provide 1000 families with rice for 2 weeks.

Source: https://www.wfp.org/donate/ondoy

Suggested Donations in Kind

New York, NY. These are what the victims of the Super Typhoons would need the most:
1. food - rice, noodles, canned goods, sugar, iodized salt, cooking oil, monggo beans and potable water
3. clothing - from infants to mature
4. footwear - slippers, walking shoes
5. body care - bath soaps, face towels, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste
6. sleeping items - blankets, mosquito nets, plastic mats
7. cookware and utensils
8. medicines - paracetamol, antibiotics, analgesic, oral rehydration salts, multivitamins and medications to treat diarrheal diseases
9. jerry cans, water containers, water purification tablets
10. plastic sheetings
11. laundry soap
12. cash donations

Rain Love on Manila Shirts, by DAS

New York, NY. Thanks to DAS (www.getdas.com), New York, the city will soon see Rain Love on Manila shirts worn by people who care. Watch out for it, and place your orders at rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com.

How can a Rain Love on Manila shirt help the victims of the Super Typhoons in the Philippines?
When you buy the shirt, you donate your payment to the victims.
When you keep the shirt and wear it, you tell others to Rain Love on Manila.
When you give the shirt to the victim, you not only donate your payment to the victim, you also clothe him/her.

We're still continuing to clothe the shivering men, women, and children in the Philippines. Or at least we try.

Drop-off Locations

New York, NY. Thanks to Pratt Institute, donations of clothes, shoes, food, medicines and blankets can now be forwarded in brown shipping boxes (18"x18"x18" from Staples, or 28"x18"x17" from LBC) to the following addresses:

1. Pratt - Brooklyn Campus - 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205. Office of Student Activities. Addressed to: Vic Alonzo. For "Rain Love on Manila"

2. Pratt - Manhattan Campus - 144 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10011. Building Operations and Security Office. Addressed to: Kevin Tassey. For "Rain Love on Manila"

Please indicate the type, and quantity of stuff that you are donating in a list, found inside the box. Please do not seal the boxes permanently, as we will resort and compact items per box.
Once the drop-off has been made, please send an email to rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com to advise us, so that we may pick them up.

For donations in cash, please contact Vic Alonzo at valonzo5@pratt.edu, or Deb Flores at rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com.

Beneficiaries from Dairy Zest Corp.

Translations:
'Baha hanggang ulo' - means 'flood reached up to the level of the head'
'Baha lampas tao' - means 'flood reached past the height of the average person'
'Inanod ang bahay' - means 'his/her house was swept by the flood'

Beneficiary: Joselito

Joselito Torres

30 years old

3 years working at JWT

Resides in Sta. Ana

Flood waters submerged their home

Needs: blankets and clothes

Beneficiary: Ge

Ge Madriaga-Mapa

33 years old

3 years working with JWT

Resides in Cainta

6 ft. of flood waters entered their home. Were temporarily separated from their kids who were trapped with their landlord on the 3rd floor until help arrived.

Lost their source of income - music instruments and DJ equipment, old records

Needs: financial assistance

Beneficiary: Ramonito

Ramonito Balicante

37 years old

10 years working at JWT

Resides in Las Pinas

House badly damaged by Ketsana / Ondoy. Water entered their home until neck high

Needs: food, financial aid

Beneficiary: Rommel

Rommel Barrientos

33 years old

7 years working at JWT

Resides in Pasig

House was badly damaged by Ketsana / Ondoy

Needs: financial assistance

Beneficiary: Zeny

Zeny Toledo

41 years old

Working for JWT for nearly 20 years

Her home in Sta. Ana was completely demolished and is now temporarily staying with her family in Laguna.

Her home in Sta. Ana is submerged waist deep in water. During the storm, the family escaped by walking through chest high water for miles to higher ground.

Needs: financial aid for a new home and other necessities

Beneficiary: Tess

Tess Jumawan

32 years old

Recently lost her home to a fire started from a neighboring house. Was in the process of slowly re-building her home only to lose it again during Ketsana / Ondoy.

9 years working with JWT

Resides in Quezon City

Needs: children's clothes for a 10 year old girl and a 7 year old boy.

Beneficiary: Diane

Diane Fernando

25 years old

Single mother with 1 child

4 years working at JWT

Resides in Taytay, Rizal

Needs: clothes, beddings

Beneficiary: Tricci

Tricci Alonzo

39 years old
3 years working with JWT (Ad Agency)
Resides in Mandaluyong
Needs: food, toiletries, cleaning materials
Recently married, lost her treasures - photo albums

Documenting Disaster

Manila, Philippines. Because oftentimes words are hardly enough to express what photographs could -

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/09/typhoon_ketsana_ondoy.html

Rain Love on Manila thanks Sharp

New York, NY. Sharp Communications donated several bags of personal effects for the victims of the storms in the Philippines, and the New York volunteer group picked it up yesterday.

Sharp Communications is a premier multidisciplinary firm, providing PR, advertising and graphic design to thriving organizations, both private and not-for-profit, of New York City. Sharp has generously lent a hand to Rain Love on Manila to see the design printed in shirts and sold all across the city.

Watch out for the Rain Love on Manila shirts to break into market! If you'd like to place orders beforehand, you may send an email to rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com, with the subject "shirt order". Please indicate your full name, your address, the quantity of shirts you wish to exchange your donations for, and your preferred sizes.

Rain Love on Manila drop-off locations

New York, NY. Rain Love on Manila drop-off locations now include Pratt Brooklyn Campus-Community Services Department. Pratt Brookyln is at 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11205. You may label your donations in kind with "Rain Love on Manila" and address it to Vic Alonzo, the Community Services Board Advisor. Please indicate what kind of things you are donating - clothes, shoes, food, medicines, blankets, and the like.

Please stay tuned for the other drop-off locations closer to you.

Rain Love, Now Supported by the Philippine Consulate NY

New York, NY. Rain Love on Manila is now supported by the Consulate General of the Philippines in New York. We are currently solidifying the connection and association so that people who wish to lend help to Rain Love on Manila here in NYC can take comfort in the fact that our local government is aware of our cause.

Meanwhile, one of the most distinguished art schools in the city, Pratt Institute, is also poised to offer help. The Community Services Department Head and the Student Affairs Director have scheduled their respective meetings to agree on the best way to get the student body involved.

Thank you for continuing to Rain Love on Manila.

What The Victims Need

Here is a list of what the victims often need, at a crisis like in the Philippines:

(1) clothing

clothing for males (kids, teens, adults, mature);

clothing for females (kids, teens, adults, pregnant mothers, mature);

clothing for infants;

diapers, blankets;

slippers, flat shoes

(2) food

food with caloric value, preferably one that's high in protein (e.g. corned beef, fish, etc.)

rice, sugar, salt

(3) health care

medicine against infections, fever, flu, cough, diarrhea, stomach ache

oral electrolyte maintenance solutions (e.g. Pedialyte, Gatorade, etc.)

(4) sanitation

disinfectant wipes

(5) shelter

There are so many other things needed to rebuild people's lives, but we ought to start from rebuilding their physical strength. Please be guided by these measures, and if you wish to check on the immediacy of the stuff that you want to provide, you may call the Red Cross at 1-800-RedCross or the Philippine Consulate at 212-764-1330 ext. 312.

God bless us all.

Rain Love on Manila, Toronto

Toronto, Canada. Friends in Rain Love on Manila are mobilizing in Toronto to get the word out about the cause (thank you C. Galema, J. Javier, R. Agoncillo), and forming a new angle to collect relief funds: by exchanging wellness services such as yoga and dance for monetary donations. Please stay tuned as we bring you the latest on this new development. And, thank you, Toronto team for your creativity and resourcefulness.

State of a Sunken Nation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-d0Oz6OpMI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWX8xbDvhc0&NR=1

Manila, Philippines. For all those who are far removed from the tragedy, here is the current state of the Philippines as reported by a foreign news channel.

Rain Love, Beneficiary No.1 of Many

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40z8E33iwhE

Manila, Philippines. Here is a link to the YouTube video that friends took of Diego and Ge Madriaga-Mapa's home in Pasig City, Philippines. In this video they describe the water level of the flood, how their furniture traveled from the second floor to the ground floor, and how their two kids got out of the house through the air conditioner vent. They are one of the beneficiaries who will receive the fruits of our Rain Love on Manila effort.

Rain Love Harder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H86EMYS23ug

Manila, Philippines. Tropical storm #2 Parma/Pepeng is on its way to the upper part of Luzon, but will definitely be hitting the same areas in NCR that Ketsana/Ondoy already ripped apart, slated on October 3. Friends, God be with you. God be with us all.

Rain Love on Manila, in Shirts

New York, NY. Thanks to the profound kindness of friends from Sharp Communication (sharpthink.com), a premier public relations, advertising and design firm on Madison Avenue, Rain Love on Manila will soon be seen and worn by people who care about the heartbreaking state of the Philippines after tropical storm Ketsana/Ondoy nearly a week ago.

Rain Love on Manila is a design cause that strives to bring attention to the grave aftermath of the tropical storm Ketsana/Ondoy on the Philippines, and by doing so, to inspire compassion from people all across the world who are personally affected, or know someone who is affected by the tragedy. This graphic represents a call to shower warmth onto Filipino families who were devastated physically, emotionally and spiritually by the massive garbage-strewn flood that tore down homes and dreams that each hardworking Filipino built, with every $0.60 he and she earns an hour.

World, let's clothe the Philippines, and wipe the tears that have been falling even after the rain.