tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72313548260323713962024-02-06T18:41:11.036-08:00Rain Love on ManilaIf you love Manila, love a Filipino or a Filipina, and wish to send love to our motherland, read on to learn how you can rain love today.RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-55027397283404876322013-12-03T10:36:00.002-08:002013-12-03T10:40:24.821-08:00RLOM Relief Progress-NYNew York, NY. Rain Love on Manila-NY conducted the following activities for raising funds to send to disaster relief areas in Leyte.<br />
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Nov 17: Birthday Party/Fundraising for Alegre Family<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rain Love on Manila volunteers Deb Flores, Maria Alegre, and Cara de los Reyes.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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20: Collaborative Fundraiser for Doctors without Borders, NAFCON (a
Filipino org that works with smaller grass roots orgs), and Team Rubicon
(also responded to Hurricane Sandy victims), at Juke Bar, NYC<br />
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Nov 21: Fundraising for Yu Family, Spearheading Relief Operations in Cebu<br />
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Shirt sale includes Rain Love on Manila shirts, and other shirts made by Filipino graphic
designers.RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-67450756373938300292013-12-03T10:21:00.001-08:002013-12-03T10:21:26.782-08:00RLOM Relief Progress - LALos Angeles, CA. RLOM-LA Head Volunteer Ritz Calvo along with Claud Yee-Calvo and his family spearheaded collections mid to end of November, of in-kind relief goods for dropoffs through Atlas Courier. <br />
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<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-90179693031029993472013-11-19T20:53:00.001-08:002013-11-19T20:53:26.349-08:00Fundraiser Weeknights at Juke BarNew York, New York. Thanks to thespian Maria Alegre who celebrated her birthday by doing a fundraiser last Sunday, Rain Love on Manila New York has made connections with cool <a href="http://jukebarnyc.com/events/" target="_blank">Juke Bar NYC </a>at 196 E 12th Street for back-to-back fundraiser piggybacks on Wednesday and Thursday this week.<br />
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We are selling limited edition graphic tees made by Filipino graphic designers in the Philippines, as well as precious few Rain Love on Manila shirts. 100% of the sales of these shirts will go to the Philippine National Red Cross, whom RLOM has always sent their contributions.<br />
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Please visit the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/rainloveonmanila/" target="_blank">Rain Love on Manila Facebook group page</a> to check out the shirt designs!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shirts from Team Manila, Analog Soul, Hippie Days, Pinoy Lab, Electromagnetic Tentacle, Adobo Magazine, Jewels Greenhills, SPOOFS are among the featured designs on sale.</td></tr>
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<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-7721457920385956912013-11-19T20:29:00.003-08:002013-11-19T20:29:29.835-08:00Rain Love on Leyte and beyondNew York, New York. It's been 12 days since typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda raped the Philippines. The eyes of the entire world are now focused on an archipelago that has always been too hospitable to storms of massive destruction. And the Filipino is in the spotlight, both as the helpless and the helpful, as the victim and the savior.<br />
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As the world comprehends the nature and the consequences of this natural anomaly - of a climate in such total imbalance, that a land mass inhabited by over 10 million people be close to eradicated from maps from this point onward - we fill the gaps of our knowledge with a world-record tilt toward compassion. This is what I take away from the flood - of photos, articles, TV coverage, status updates, links, likes, comments and all other vessels of information about this disaster. What is to go down in history as the worst day of the country is slowly being rewritten as the day following the days in which the country and its neighbors become better. In a place made barren by the forces of nature, the forces of men came for their fellowmen. And we were there for each other, the way we often forget to be.<br />
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Rain Love on Manila is a grass-roots initiative that was meant to respond to the typhoon disaster in 2009. But every year, because the Philippines receives an average of 19 typhoons annually, Rain Love on Manila resurfaces to do what we can - either tell our story to more people, or find a way to send basic needs to those in need, or connect with others on a message of hope.<br />
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For Yolanda, Rain Love on Manila chooses to resume efforts quietly, which means that our aim is simply to gather and send relief from different places in the world back to the Philippines, where it hurts the most.<br />
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In NYC, we are:<br />
1) gathering in-kind donations, for sending through LBC to either LBC Foundation or the Philippine National Red Cross<br />
2) asking for monetary donations, for wire-delivering to the Philippine National Red Cross <br />
3) driving people to donate through other means and charities like World Vision, etc.<br />
4) selling Rain Love on Manila shirts and other limited-edition Filipino-designed graphic shirts, with 100% of the sale going to the Philippine National Red Cross<br />
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In LA, we are:<br />
1) gathering in-kind donations, for sending through LBC to either LBC Foundation or the Philippine National Red Cross<br />
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In the UK, we are:<br />
1) gathering in-kind donations, for sending through LBC to either LBC Foundation or the Philippine National Red Cross<br />
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Please watch this blog for other updates.<br />
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We urge you to send us your ideas on how else to provide disaster relief despite the distance, or to send us your comments and inquiries on how to help by emailing rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com.<br />
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New York, NY. Young Filipino professionals like Mark (left) and his friends gathered some clothing donations to start New York off.<br />
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Here are the contents of the first boxes - clothes for women, men and infants.<br />
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Here's Rain Love on Manila-NY head Deb loading them up in the LBC van!</div>
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LA - in kind<br />
Darlene Frankera and family <br />
Pia de Leon<br />
Paolo de Leon<br />
Fran de Leon<br />
Stella Dalupan<br />
Diane Graebner<br />
Leonard Gonzalez<br />
Crissy Guerrero <br />
Laura Henry <br />
Rose Johnson<br />
Jessica McKeehan <br />
Tomas Moreno <br />
Tet Ramirez and family <br />
Jon Lawrence Rivera<br />
Zenaida Rivera<br />
Victoria Smith<br />
Leslie Sloan<br />
Beam Thompson <br />
Pinky Turzo<br />
Junko Goda<br />
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NY - shipping funds, and in kind<br />
Tom Riddle<br />
Debbie Chan<br />
Michelle<br />
Bret<br />
Lana<br />
Winnie Chan<br />
Daniel Ramos<br />
Jon Cotugno<br />
Carolyna<br />
Luisa<br />
Daniell<br />
Eric<br />
Twana<br />
Ashley Fornuff<br />
Tanya<br />
Martha<br />
Feline<br />
Pam<br />
Seon<br />
Patrick<br />
Steven<br />
Ina<br />
Nicole<br />
Dave Kief<br />
Stephanie Houelle<br />
Ebony Judge<br />
Shari Silverstein<br />
Eddie del Risco<br />
Shirley Dukes Alston<br />
Dave Herz<br />
Mark, Chanel, Michael<br />
Noel and family, c/o Chilai<br />
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<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-37014102204226074722012-09-03T19:15:00.001-07:002012-09-03T19:17:30.428-07:00Rain Love on Manila shipped from LA!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>West Hills, California.</b> Rain Love on Manila LA Head Volunteer Ritz Calvo pictured here among the many donations from Filipinos based all over Los Angeles. <br />
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Food items, like cup noodles, soup, rice, protein bars - along with clothes and infant items were generously given. <br />
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It can't all fit in his SUV in one transport, so he made more drop-offs than originally anticipated. <br />
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Here he is at the LBC warehouse!<br />
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We wish to thank all those who gave all these life-saving things to our less fortunate by supporting Rain Love on Manila. We will post their names here shortly. Thank you Ritz!<br />
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Volunteers Gail, Pat, Phuong and Zibby send off some Love to Manila via LBC in London.<br />
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Many thanks to everyone who helped fill the jumbo box from Wembley, Highbury and Islington, Brixton, Shepherds Bush, Elephant and Castle, Bethnal Green and Deptford! Thanks LBC!RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-72241774715480165432012-08-21T21:11:00.002-07:002012-08-21T21:11:36.696-07:00Overseas Effort = Rain Love on Manila<a href="http://diversityhuman.com/hollywood/index.php/Friend-Blogs/relief-centers-donations-volunteers-flood-victims-metro-manila-operation" target="_blank">Click here to find out other means to send relief to the typhoon victims in Manila, Philippines.</a>RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-11813516866386291062012-08-21T20:35:00.000-07:002012-08-21T20:43:37.579-07:00Rain Love circa 2009 - shirts sold in Analog Soul, remember?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-66809561649585747752012-08-21T20:31:00.001-07:002012-08-21T20:31:45.055-07:00Rain Love on Manila reconnects with Philippine National Red Cross<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As of August 20, here's a quick look at the goods we have! Thanks mates!RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-60237079201241063462012-08-19T19:40:00.003-07:002012-08-19T19:40:37.664-07:00Rain Love on Manila in LA ships out!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Los Angeles, California. Thanks to the hardworking PT and Rain Love on Manila volunteer Ritz Calvo, we have gathered this much from generous Filipinos from in and around LA!<br />
Now the next challenge is to send this over to LBC LA, for direct shipping to the Red Cross. <br />
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It has come to our attention though that LBC will not forward donations of used clothing. The RLOM volunteers in LA and UK are devising a way to send the clothes to those in need, with or without the help of LBC. Meanwhile, RLOM in NY will still push through with shipping the items (used clothing included), from the help of friends who have donated money for shipping fare.<br />
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If you wish to send your goods directly to LBC, please wrap your food, medicine and similar donations in blankets.<br />
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In talks with a potential volunteer in Dubai! Stay tuned!<br />
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<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-43479493581542833712012-08-10T20:16:00.004-07:002012-08-10T20:16:38.972-07:00Rain Love Approaches the Philippine Consulate in NY<b>New York, NY.</b> Rain Love on Manila reached out to the Philippine Consulate in New York this week to seek for help in hosting a temporary drop-off venue, so that it would be easier for donors to access. However, our group and initiative were met with disappointment. Because we are operating on our own initiative, they have advised us to simply help in other means, like join a "fun run" which will happen in the next few months. Anyway, it was a government directive that specified that the items we chose to ask for - the used (but clean) clothes - are not allowed to be donated.<br />
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It makes one wonder about the concept of help, need and giving. A person in need deserves help. Those who have the capacity to help, should. Because life sometimes puts you in situations where you may be in and out of need. You help any way you can. You can give anyway you can. But you can never give what you don't have. You should not promise what you cannot deliver. On the other hand, if you are in need, you welcome whatever help you can get. But if you are lending the help to the one in need, then those people are the ones who have the right to decide what they need.<br />
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A person who has no dry clothes on his or her back would probably want something to wear. A clean pre-owned shirt is better than no shirt or a dirty one. If one has money and clothes to spare, it seems more logical to buy the needy sustenance, while giving them their own clothes, instead of buying them new threads. There is a greater symbol to passing to the other what you have used to cover yourself. "When I was hungry, you gave me food to eat. When I was naked, you clothed me."<br />
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To all those who want to help out our fellowmen, give what you can, and give what will be necessary for people to restore not just their strength, but their self-worth. Donate things that you would want someone to give you when you are the one without the clothes, without food, without shelter. Give with your heart, and nothing will be turned away.<br />
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<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-36148013972927514912012-08-09T19:50:00.001-07:002012-08-09T19:50:16.679-07:00How to Drop Off Donations<b>New York City, NY</b>. The best way to contact Rain Love on Manila volunteers especially regarding drop-off arrangements is through emailing rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com. The Facebook group is also a venue to post inquiries regarding drop-offs, and to learn about what else is Rain Love on Manila doing. Please look for us at http://www.facebook.com/groups/rainloveonmanila/.<br />
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<br />The main number for leaving SMS messages is 646-820-3327, within the US.<br /><br />Right now these are the 3 locations for the drop-offs:<br />
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and dates of the drop must also be coordinated through email. <br /><br />If it is from <span style="font-weight: bold;">LA</span> - <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1344566517_0">14423 Hamlin Street, Van Nuys, CA 91401</span>. Volunteer Ritz handles this location.<br />Monday through Fridays, between 9-5pm, someone can receive the packages. But prior arrangement must be made through email. Please indicate that drop-offs are meant for Ritz Calvo.<br /><br />All the care packages collected from these locations will be shipped via LBC to the address in Manila: 8100 C. Raymundo Avenue, Caniogan, Pasig City 1600. From here, it will be turned over to the Philippine National Red Cross.<br /><br />In
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to Red Cross), donors may request a copy of the Rain Love on Manila
logo to be stuck to the box, for identification. It is advisable to email RLOM a list and also to print a list of contents along with the packages that the donors will drop off, so that all items will be accounted for.<br />
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Thank you for helping us help each other out!RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-6724632182581436302012-08-09T14:47:00.000-07:002012-08-09T14:54:54.146-07:00Rain Love from London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first batch of relief goods from all the way in Wembley is collected!RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com1London, UK51.5073346 -0.127683151.3492066 -0.4435401 51.6654626 0.1881739tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-51927618957596166832012-08-08T18:40:00.004-07:002012-08-08T18:40:34.192-07:00Rain Love Drop-Off Venues<b>New York, New York.</b> Rain Love on Manila is currently gathering care packages in the residences of their volunteers. If you would like to consolidate your donations to theirs, for shipping back to Manila for the receipt of the Philippine National Red Cross, please email rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com. Indicate your name, where you are from (city, country), when you intend to do the drop-off, and we will be in touch with you. These are the cities that are currently active:<br />
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<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-49537717604192919402012-08-07T18:40:00.003-07:002012-08-09T13:57:53.344-07:00Statistics: Accumulated Rainfall, Day 1<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-53102261020661929982012-08-07T17:19:00.003-07:002012-08-09T14:49:35.481-07:00No Land in Sight: Metro Manila Today<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-51689454783662659882012-08-07T15:52:00.002-07:002012-08-07T15:57:57.525-07:00World Vision tells Rain Love on Manila:<br />
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"You may
be interested to know that World Vision is readying relief
efforts in response to the flooding in the Philippines. As soon as the
flood significantly recedes, our response teams will visit the
affected areas of Malabon, Manila, Cavite and Zambales."<br />
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Thank you World Vision! <br />
<br />RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-92108036171522309282012-08-07T11:55:00.001-07:002012-08-09T19:53:13.010-07:00Rain Love Again<div style="color: black;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">While
the eyes of the world remain on London for the Olympic games in its
gob-smacking spectacle, my country, the Philippines sinks under a national
disaster of apocalyptic rains that continue to drown it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I
hear from the news that capital city of Manila has had 504 millimeters or 20
inches of rain – and that apparently it’s not yet over. To put this into
perspective, Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and most destructive
calamities of the United States felt rainfall of 14 inches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">140,000
people have been forced out of their homes. There are deep waters, waist deep
and even higher floods, overflowing rivers and dams, ferocious landslides,
which have buried communities, stranded cars, blocked roads, trapped families
on roofs, and killed people. The death toll of the country is up to 53 today,
August 7.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My
country is under complete red alert. Where will the 7,107 islands of the
country find itself after a storm bigger than its landmass leaves it? How will
the 92 million Filipinos survive? Being a Filipino away from the Philippines, seeing
the deadly disaster that’s happened only through a laptop screen, I immediately try to reach my parents back home, feel relief
to find out only an inch of water has seeped through our home, but at the same
time I feel the pang of anxiety for the rest of my country who might not be as
lucky with unimaginable water levels. This misfortune that has struck, I am
filled with hope that there can only be light at the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Because
the country has seen a disaster just as deadly before, not even 3 years ago,
called Ondoy, we already know that the effects of this storm are far-reaching
and profound. And because we have seen this before, then we’ve already seen how
much people can do, what people can give, what people can be to turn our
country from what it looks like now, to what it can become. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">With
the recent debate of the RH bill that has divided the country, and now with
another great storm, I know this flood, might its waters linger for weeks, will
float something else – something good to the country, as people rise up with
nationalism, pick up a brother, and take control to turn the tide themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here
in London, while the Games have united people under the banner of ambition,
hard work and competition, in Manila – I know that we have just as dramatic a
lesson from the storm, which is that when we are united with a purpose, it can
bring out the best. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">During
times like these, there is no more government, there are no rich or poor, there
are no drenched or dry - there are only people - people who are cold, people
who are hungry, and people who need help but cannot call for help. I'm writing
on behalf of my people, to you, friends, if you can spare some time to
gather things that can provide relief to Filipinos at this time of
"endless dusk" (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19159509">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19159509</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My
sister has started a disaster relief campaign called Rain Love on Manila (<a href="http://rainloveonmanila.blogspot.com/">rainloveonmanila.blogspot.com</a>) in
2009, which helped create care packages to send back to our country for the
victims, in cooperation with the Philippine National Red Cross. Today, we begin
the Rain Love on Manila 2012 relief campaign for last night’s victims by
collecting anything you feel like donating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Today, any of these
things will be most helpful:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">1) basic clothes -
tops, bottoms, underwear</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">2) rain gear and cold
weather clothes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">3) flotation devices
- old air beds, life vests, flotation sleeves</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">4) basic food - rice,
powdered milk for infants, cup noodles, canned goods</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">5) blankets, pillows
- some people are living in makeshift evacuation centers like schools, gyms,
parking garages, without facilities</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">6) funds to cover the
shipping of these boxes via LBC </span></span></div>
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personal email: flores.patriciaanne@gmail.com<br />
personal email of my sister: debflo@gmail.com<br />
campaign email: rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com<br />
SMS (UK based): +44776821964<br />
SMS (NY based): 646-820-3327<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">As of today, there
are Rain Love on Manila volunteer teams assembling in Manila, UK, California
and NY, to better facilitate the collection of care.</span></span></div>RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0Charing Cross, City of Westminster, London WC2N, UK51.5073346 -0.127683151.3492301 -0.4435401 51.6654391 0.1881739tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-76555156062924961412011-02-18T08:32:00.000-08:002011-02-18T08:54:03.265-08:00Thank you for the Year-long Support<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">New York City, New York.</span> It has been more than a year since the calamity that struck the Philippines, and I have visited Manila myself several times since to see how life has been since. And I've found myself to be truly in awe of the resilience of the Filipino. For after the disaster, and several other types of disasters pummeling the country both natural and man-made, the Philippines is on its feet, commuting away and back to their homes, and continuing to build a life and future for their families.<br /><br />The major relief effort has concluded. The Rain Love on Manila teams in New York and Manila have gathered and distributed the clothing, food, and monetary assistance that we have collected since the campaign began. I personally thank everyone who became a part of this mission and turned it into a success - volunteers in Manila, New York, Canada, people who love the shirt and love the message and want to help from Africa to London to California, friends from Pratt, Sharp, JWT, family, Dairy Zest Corp, the Philippine National Red Cross, Adobo Magazine, Smart Parenting, Nylon Magazine. Classmates, schoolmates, faculty, administration, student affairs team, advertising people, the creatives, the accounts, the production people, models, photographers, publicists, writers and friends, creative directors, VPs, CEOs. Rain Love on Manila showered blessings the way it did because of all of you.<br /><br />Yet ever so quietly, I still continue to sell the few shirts left with me of the Rain Love on Manila limited first edition shirts. Because the mission has only begun. So thank you also to those individuals who have reached out to me showing continued interest in the shirt as well as the cause behind the shirt. I am happy to deliver these items to you, as I hope you're happy to flaunt them around and show what helping means to you.<br /><br />I have plans of sustaining this campaign over a longer period, but as I am back to doing this by myself, I apologize in advance for the slower rate with which I unfold these plans. To everyone who would still like to be a part of Rain Love on Manila, when you do find time, write me about your suggestions at rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com. For anyone who would like to own the last few pieces of the limited edition shirt, drop me an order as well through this blog. And for those who have other ideas how to help the Philippines through design, let's huddle up and do something brilliant and worthwhile.<br /><br />In the meantime, this is Deb Flores, from New York City, a designer, a grad student, and a hopeful design missionary, signing off for now, but waiting patiently for the next surge of hope.RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7231354826032371396.post-5425978884764012012011-02-18T08:12:00.001-08:002011-02-18T08:32:07.343-08:00Rain Love on Manila distribution phase II<div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ETaU8cKOJlgicItDlgJTwjkASoncrADwFEPfyzrLpQpHSgob8h1loEzz_x_i_I8bQ4FC5gfxKdxGFkFNWc0BVWxb6JbZ1u4VWO51KuRUxaKsdj5J_cZlcAOX1nHNkVgnv1Mvtl-ykzU/s1600/IMG_6114.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ETaU8cKOJlgicItDlgJTwjkASoncrADwFEPfyzrLpQpHSgob8h1loEzz_x_i_I8bQ4FC5gfxKdxGFkFNWc0BVWxb6JbZ1u4VWO51KuRUxaKsdj5J_cZlcAOX1nHNkVgnv1Mvtl-ykzU/s320/IMG_6114.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575066985251239474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">JWT volunteers Cez and Dovie prepare the care packages for the distribution day.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-style: italic;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUP0g4WMs3YyOnVs82YnkhDgc-h0Utfd4IvqhREVzfg9A-0cHXFSE-6JfsrEoEGV2CJxHcqSp-V1R1Gclx3OFsUuZ8Ik4c9OMzMI6nz9xSZ720J2iSlf02MaFk6Kx939TAoUmBQXzWIqA/s1600/IMG_6266.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUP0g4WMs3YyOnVs82YnkhDgc-h0Utfd4IvqhREVzfg9A-0cHXFSE-6JfsrEoEGV2CJxHcqSp-V1R1Gclx3OFsUuZ8Ik4c9OMzMI6nz9xSZ720J2iSlf02MaFk6Kx939TAoUmBQXzWIqA/s320/IMG_6266.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575066981449814898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">DZC beneficiaries of the Rain Love on Manila effort.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuIbL3eSbAJfZd4aPjC-Q_2Vi3MJGnH896G4UmObRGvYo_EzvMiHEnBD18oW14eT4cmQtFh_wzBMaMU7xd2EzT1EX1_m-svIujhu-kjmBMQg3e0zSAfppHOknTbmv5XBAfEYPYqFodgq8/s1600/IMG_6170.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuIbL3eSbAJfZd4aPjC-Q_2Vi3MJGnH896G4UmObRGvYo_EzvMiHEnBD18oW14eT4cmQtFh_wzBMaMU7xd2EzT1EX1_m-svIujhu-kjmBMQg3e0zSAfppHOknTbmv5XBAfEYPYqFodgq8/s320/IMG_6170.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575066977656058946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">People look on as they get called to the distribution</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">station to collect their care package and financial support.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO35DFyUhc4hTudLYMdGbBIN14E4zEyZHw3AbETsRLujp-QcoIewMf2-gyBjc2o8PoDxft3FnwLBnPyIoNmz6pyl87nMA0QwuvvDirSLOrd3HiNpwwQoiz-XyqfTlWZrWGJ7Cz2M7ltRc/s1600/IMG_6148.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO35DFyUhc4hTudLYMdGbBIN14E4zEyZHw3AbETsRLujp-QcoIewMf2-gyBjc2o8PoDxft3FnwLBnPyIoNmz6pyl87nMA0QwuvvDirSLOrd3HiNpwwQoiz-XyqfTlWZrWGJ7Cz2M7ltRc/s320/IMG_6148.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575066971423737826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Dairy Zest Corp Managing Director and Rain Love on Manila</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">volunteer Nellie Flores ends the event with an inspiring message</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">of hope in spite of disaster.</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Manila, Philippines.</span> </span>Slowly and steadily, the efforts of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rain Love on Manila</span> cause has finally reached its goals of helping put the smile back into the faces of those affected by the typhoon disasters of 2009. Last July 2010, volunteers of Rain Love on Manila distributed the money collected from the sales of the shirts, and treated Dairy Zest Corp victims to an afternoon of food and more care packages shipped from New York City. The two shirts pledged by some New York based sponsors were also given out in a raffle to the crowd. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Above are some photos of the event, participated actively by Dairy Zest Corp management, and their corresponding staff. Thank you to JWT volunteer Cez de Guzman and Dovie Mar Racquel for helping out.<br /><br /><br /></span>RainLoveOnManilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16750992488407976416noreply@blogger.com0