Rain Love on Manila hits NYC!

New York, NY. Rain Love on Manila shirts are now available in NYC! Hurry and get your first edition shirts in S, M, L or XL sizes. You may purchase it on Etsy by clicking on this link. Don't wait!

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.

Shipping is not included in the cost of the shirt. We have selected a priority medium flat rate so that your shirt will get to you in 2 days, if you are within the US. For those in the Philippines, we're coming to you too! Please email us at rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com if you want to know how to order from where you are.

Wear LOVE on your sleeve today. Rain Love on Manila!

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

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.

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.

Rain Love on Manila Beneficiaries

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.

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.