(reposting from Lui)

Project 100 targets to produce 100 bags of relief goods, which will be distributed to Our Lady of Parish in Sta. Elena, Marikina City. We will coordinate with the parish priest to help us with logistics and all. Our efforts won’t end with our relief operations for the victims of Typhoon Ondoy.

Here is the list of items of that we’re going to put in each bag:

4 Mega Sardines x 11.60
3 Payless Chicken x 5.65
1 Champion Bar x 17.80
1 Zest x 11.20
1 Sunsilk (6 sachets) x 21.50
1 Green Cross Alc (150mL) x 20.90
5 Bread Pan x 3.60
1 Katol x 12.00
3 Bottled Water x 6.50
1k Rice x 25.00
TOTAL = Php209.25

Project 100 is open to EVERYONE and ANYONE! You can forward this to your friends. They may want to solicit a bag (or bags!), donate in cash or give us a hand in repacking.

P.S.

If you know someone who works in a pharma company and/or drugstore, or owns one, please ask if they can donate anti-fungal creams. Refuge Centers need deluge of anti-fungal creams because many evacuees are suffering from Athlete’s Foot due to exposure to flood and mud. We want to prevent Leptospirosis outbreak.

Keep on spreading the love and hope,

Louie Marcelo, Tin Manzano, Loren Maymay and Kax Uson

Just posting to say that our family’s fine. We got through ok. Our house was more than a meter above street level so the water was only knee level at the highest area in our house (plus we have an attic so we had somewhere dry to go and we can go straight to our roof should we need to). Our furnitures, cars, and my dad’s clinic were all wiped out. A lot of things got destroyed but we managed to save our beds, clothes, computers, cameras and most importantly our dogs and ourselves. We had food and water that lasted until Monday and we didn’t have to scrimp to make it last. We were lucky. Others weren’t.

Material things we can replace, lives we can’t. So I’m glad to find that families and friends are all accounted for. Still waiting for word from a few but I’ve heard from other friends that they’re ok. I hope.

We’ll post about the ordeal the next time. Right now I’m all about trying to get our lives back on track immediately so I can help out without having to worry about my own home. It’s easier that way. We’re almost done.

To friends/family who need help, please let me know how we can assist you. We’ll do the best we can.

To friends/family who texted/called/dropped by and were worried… THANK YOU! You have no idea how much that meant to us.

To neighbors who tried to cross the raging flood water thinking we needed rescue, our many thanks. We really can’t thank you enough.

It was a long weekend. But as I was saying we got lucky. There are others who had it 100x worse than we did.