Rain Love on Manila distribution phase I

Volunteer Deb Flores opening first of five care packages

sent to DZC plant, and presenting the items to

DZC Management volunteer C.P.Flores.

Manila, Philippines. Rain Love on Manila NY volunteer Deb Flores comes home to Manila to personally follow through with the distribution plans of the care packages sent December last year.

A total of 650 goods were collected to be shared with the victims from Dairy Zest Corporation, and the Philippine National Red Cross.

Over 200 factory workers in Dairy Zest Corporation, a food condiment manufacturing plant in Pasig City, and about 20 JWT employees and their families were grossly affected by the supertyphoon Ketsana/Ondoy that hit the Philippines last September 26.

It is already July, and the country is again being doused by typhoons. Let's hope that we continue to find ways to reach out to those under the weather.

Rain Love on Manila Loves Nylon Back

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New York, NY. Thanks to friends in hip and high places, Rain Love on Manila shirts are featured in the Nylon magazine's official blog. Check out how much they rain love on Rain Love on Manila right here. They put us under Fashionably Loud, and who would doubt that? Rain Love on Manila makes its statement heard.

Rain Love on Manila continues to raise awareness and relief operations through the use of design on shirt merchandise, and the collection of care packages (clothes, blankets, medicines, food, sanitation) everywhere for victims of the series of tumultuous super-typhoons that hit the Philippines in September. It is a not-for-profit design initiative to keep inspiring people toward compassion. We'd rain-love to hear your ideas how else we can help the victims, and how else we can improve on our cause. Write to us at rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com.

Rain Love on Manila Arrives in Manila!

Manila, Philippines. Rain Love on Manila shirts are now available in Manila as of Saturday, November 14, 2009. In collaboration with Analog Soul, a young, hip, pop graphic fashion subculture in the Philippines who support the cause, the first 100, first edition Rain Love on Manila shirts have been disseminated through orders to Rain Love on Manila - Philippine Contingent team. People can still make reservations for their first Rain Love on Manila shirts by calling the numbers on the e-flyer, contacting us at rainloveonmanila@yahoo.com, and joining the Facebook group, "Rain Love on Manila". Watch out for updates on this space! Wear LOVE on your sleeve today.

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!

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

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.