Fil-Am Spearheads California School to Help Sendong Victims

from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School in Newhall, California

When Vladimir Villapando heard about the devastating typhoon that struck southern Philippines in December, he knew he needed to do something.

“It hit close to home,” said Villapando, who grew up in the Philippines before immigrating to the United States.

So he looked to his school, Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Newhall, where he serves as athletic director and spearheaded a donation drive.

And the private Catholic school stepped up: families gathered nearly 20 boxes of clothes, three boxes of shoes, two boxes of school supplies, three boxes of toiletries and toys and 14 cases of canned goods.

Read more at The Santa Clarita Valley Signal

Photo from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School in Newhall, California

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La Salle Green Hills Accepts Donations for Typhoon Sendong Victims

Photo of La Salle Green Hills dome.

La Salle Green Hills will start receiving donations for the victims of Typhoon Sendong beginning 8:00am Monday (tomorrow), December 19, 2011.

If you haven’t been catching up on Philippine local news, this typhoon hit parts of Mindanao, specifically Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, where HUNDREDS of Filipino lives were lost.

Kindly “SHARE” this to your social media networks so that God’s presence can shine upon you who are willing to help and those you are able to help during this calamity-stricken Christmas season. Your compassion and generosity will definitely be appreciated.

Donations in cash and kind can be received at Gate 2 of La Salle Green Hills at 343 Ortigas Avenue, Mandaluyong City 1550. You may also call any of the following telephone numbers for further inquiries:

Aluimni Office — 721-2729, 722-7750, 725-4720
GS Principal — 721-2482
HS Principal — 721-8914
Buildings and Grounds Office — 721-8904 (Telefax)
La Sallian Mission Office — 726-5851 (Telefax)

ADDENDUM:

For those outside of the Philippines who wish to donate cash, Bro. Raffy Reyes, FSC, President of La Salle Iligan, has informed the La Salle community that they have just opened a savings account with Bank of the Philippine Islands (or BPI). Please make your cash donations to:

Bank Name: Bank of the Philippine Islands
Account Name: La Salle Academy
Account Type: Savings
Account No: 9353-0377-62
Swift code: BOPIPHMM
Bank address:935 Quezon Avenue Cor Lluch St. Iligan City
Bank telephone number: +63 (63) 223-8053; +63 (63) 223-8054

ADDENDUM 2:

La Salle Green Hills is in need of volunteers and donations. Though used clothing are still accepted, PRIORITY DONATIONS at the moment are as as follows:

NEW Underwear
Blankets
Sleeping mats
Food (avoid pork canned goods)
Slippers
Towels
Soap
Shampoo
Tetanus vaccine

Through generous friends and alumni, we can air freight your donations directly to Cagayan de Oro where we are assured of military assistance in getting the goods to La Salle Academy Iligan for distribution to affected areas. Trucks and other large vehicles for carrying the donations will also be appreciated.

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Century Properties Uses Facebook for Charity Work

Century Properties embarked on a Facebook Page campaign by promising to fund 50 operations of children born with cleft lip or cleft palate deformity. The only thing they ask is you “LIKE” the Facebook Page. They are shooting for 15,000 page fans by New Year’s day.

Even global celebrity Lea Salonga retweeted (RT) a Tweet on Twitter about “liking the page.”

Go to Century Properties Facebook Page now!

Poster taken from Century Properties Facebook Page

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North Carolina Physicians for Peace helps 17-year old in the Philippines

Photo by Physicians For Peace at Flickr.com

A brief conversation, an e-mail from the U.S. to the Philippines and less than $200 helped set in motion a chain of healing that culminated this summer in an optical implant for a 17-year-old girl.

Edita Adams heard about Seeing Clearly, Physicians for Peace’s comprehensive optometric eye care program, at a fundraiser for the group last May in Chapel Hill, N.C. After the event, Adams asked Physicians for Peace to help one of her relatives in the Philippines, a teenager named Mary Grace who was hit in the eye by a coat hanger in 2006. The accident deformed and incapacitated Mary Grace’s eye and robbed the girl of her self esteem.

Read more at Read Media

http://readme.readmedia.com/North-Carolina-Event-Leads-to-New-Life-for-Teen-in-the-Philippines/1748045

“Pinoy PhilHealth Day” Benefits 4.7 Million Poor Families

Image from PhilHealth

4.7 million Filipino families are set to benefit from the “Pnoy PhilHealth day” that aims to provide health insurance coverage to “true” indigents in the country after they were evaluated and identified by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). “The truly poor will be sponsored by the government,” Department of Health (DoH) Secretary Enrique T. Ona said in a press briefing at the DoH compound in Manila on Tuesday.

The monthly contribution for PhilHealth amounts to 100 Pesos. For the indigents, 50 Pesos will be provided by the national government and the remaining 50 Pesos will be paid for by the local government. “In keeping with President Aquino’s promise to give each and every Filipino access to quality healthcare in three years time,” Ona said.

Source: Yahoo! News

Filipino Cyclist in California Hit-and-run Needs Your Help

Photo from Balitang America

A Filipino hit-and-run victim is appealing for help to pay his medical bills that amounted to at least $200,000. Friends describe Rolando “Alan” Casajeros, 39, as active and someone who loved life. But that was before he got hit and run over by a sports utility vehicle last June 2 at 24th and Harrison Streets in San Francisco. After spending 2 weeks in the hospital, friends say they could barely recognize Casajeros. His face is now held together by bolts and screws. His jaw is wired shut and several of his teeth are missing.

Those who want to help Casajeros pay his medical bills may donate through a special account set up for him at Wells Fargo. Donations could be made directly to account #7734751691. Checks must be made payable to Rolando Casajeros and his attorney, Claude Wyle.

Read more at Balitang America

How to Send 600 Filipino Street Children Back to School

Photo by Eric Gozar at Flickr.com

The summary writes, “We are building a life competence center that provides 600 street youth alternative learning, life skills, tutorial and income generation that bring them back to formal schooling.”

The project addresses poverty, illiteracy and the impact of exploitation on the lives of 600 street children in southern Philippines. The life competence center provides free alternative learning, tutorial and life skills that give them better chances of being transitioned to formal schooling. They also avail voluntary HIV and health screening while opportunities for entrepreneurial activities that make them earn and mobilise life savings to secure own future is afforded.

• $10 – funds one street child/youth’s enrollment and daily subsistence for 1 month
• $30 – funds one street child/youth’s drug and HIV screening and annual health check up for 1 year
• $60 – support 5-30 Filipino street youth peer-group to open a lifetime group savings account
• $90 – bring back 1 Filipino street child to school and a summer mentoring for 1 year

Read more at GlobalGiving.com

Montana Raises Money for Philippine Medical Clinic

A holiday-themed dance performance this weekend is raising money to help build a medical clinic in the Philippines.

“‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” is being put on by the Bozeman Lions Club, the Big Sky Dance ensemble and the Main Street Dance Theatre. Profits from the show go to the Sacred Portion Children’s Ministry, a nonprofit organization that supports an orphanage in the Philippines.

Read more at Montana’s News Station

San Jose / Valley Charity for Ondoy Victims

Volunteers at St. John the Baptist Church are hard at work gathering canned goods, adult and children’s clothing, blankets, towels, medicine and money for the victims of the Ondoy flood in the Philippines. Tropical Storm Ondoy ravaged the Philippines with a month’s worth of rain in a day, leaving Manila and surrounding cities with the worst flooding in 40 years.

Dropoffs can be made at Pavalkis Hall, 279 S. Main St., from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on weekends. Those who wish to write checks are asked to make them payable to St. John the Baptist Church, with Ondoy Flood Drive in the memo space. The Antipolo and Pasig dioceses will be the recipients of the donations. For more information, call 262-2546.

Source: The Mercury News – San Jose / Valley

Filipino in Top 10 Finalist for CNN Hero for the Year Award

Twenty-eight year old Filipino named EFREN PENAFLORIDA was bullied by gangs in high school. Today, he offers Filipino youth an alternative to gang membership through education. For the past 12 years, Peñaflorida and his team of teen volunteers have taught basic reading and writing to children living on the streets. Their main tool: A pushcart classroom. Born into a poor family, he lived in a shanty near the city dump site. But he says he refused to allow his circumstances to define his future.

He created the Dynamic Teen Company to offer his classmates an outlet to lift up themselves and their community. For Peñaflorida, that meant returning to the slums of his childhood to give kids the education he felt they deserved. Since 1997, an estimated 10,000 members have helped teach more than 1,500 children living in the slums. The organization supports its efforts by making and selling crafts and collecting items to recycle.

Click To Vote EFREN PENAFLORIDA as CNN’s Hero

Adopt or Sponsor A Rescued Dog

For 300 Pesos or $6.50 a month, you can keep a rescued dog alive. For more information e-mail, call or visit the website of the Animal Kingdom Foundation, Inc. at:

akfadvocates@gmail.com
+63 (2) 467-1261
+63 (920) 983-5109
http://www.animalkingdomfoundation.org

Source: The Animal Kingdom Foundation, Inc.

Free Laundry for Victims of Typhoon Ondoy

Below is a message relayed through the Facebook Group “Philippine Renaissance International Movement.” In summary, typhoon victims, local government units, non-profit organizations and other groups involved in relief operations may send their dirty laundry to:

Kalinisan Steam Laundry, Inc.
No. 10 Manggahan Street, Bagumbayan
Libis, Quezon City
Tel. No. 635-0601 to 05 local 128
Mobile No. 0917-890-9577 (look for Alex Malco)
Mobile No. 0917-859-1917 (look for Espie Ditablan)
Mobile No. 0917-893-6630 (look for Atty. Raul Lambino)

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Today October 3, 2009, in a lunch meeting with my client MR. WYDEN KING, owner of KALINISAN STEAM LAUNDRY, INC., one of the biggest industrial laundry company in the country that serves various big establishments like hotels, hospitals, & garment factories, he has told me that KALINISAN is offering FREE LAUNDRY & WASHING of all clothing materials (linens, bedsheets, pants, shirts, dresses, etc.) to all victims of typhoon Ondoy in Marikina, Quezon City, Cainta, Pasig, Taguig, Antipolo City and other areas in NCR, Rizal & Southern Tagalog. He instructed me to help disseminate this information so Kalinisan can immediately serve our people.

After the meeting, I immediately called up Mayor Mon Ilagan of Cainta, Rizal about this development and texted various friends in the media. Then I went to the Kalinisan warehouse at No. 10 Manggahan St., Bagumbayan, Libis, Quezon City where the factory is situated and conferred with the people in charge of the operations. I saw some dirty clothings already arriving from numerous victims and even saw more than 500 people-evacuees who are comfortably housed at the Kalinisan warehouse and supplied with foods, water and other needs mostly from Mrs. Peachy King, wife of Mr. Wyden King. Their condition is much-much better of than those who are now in other evacuation centers.

We enjoin the concerned LGUs, government agencies, NGO’s , foundations, other individuals and the victims themselves to bring to Kalinisan such cloth items if theY have the logistics to do so, or coordinate with their respective LGUs how we can effectively carry out this mission.

You can get in touch directly to Kalinisan by calling or texting these numbers: Tels. 6350601 to 05 local 128; CP # 0917-8909577 look for ALEX MALCO; or 0917-8591917 look for ESPIE DITABLAN. Likewise, you may call or text me at 09178936630.

Please pass this Note to others & let us do our little share in helping and uniting our nation by alleviating the plight of those who are most in need at such kind of moment. God bless us all.

ATTY RAUL LAMBINO

National Bookstore’s Project Aral for Ondoy Victims

Purchase 20 or 25 Peso “Study Kits,” put your name on the tag and drop them in the boxes provided in National Bookstore branches. Runs from October 10 up to 24, 2009.

Provincial Locations to Donate for the Victims of Typhoon Ondoy

BACOLOD:
University of St. La Salle Coliseum. 435-3857
Cafe Breizh. 0919-365-1101

BAGUIO:
ABS-CBN Baguio Office
Baguio Convention Center Executive Room (volunteers also needed)
Donations of veggies from Baguio via Victory Liner. Dave-0917-839-6179.

BATANGAS:
De La Salle Lipa

BICOL:
ABS-CBN Naga
ABS-CBN Daet
ABS-CBN Legazpi
Plaza Quezon, Naga City, needs volunteers
Universided de Sta. Isabel, Naga City at the Community Extension Service office.

BOHOL:
Nutrimart Warehouse at CPG North Avenue near Bohol Wisdom School.

BULACAN:
RedCross Bulacan at in Malolos near Bulacan Capitol

CAGAYAN:
Xavier University, KKP Office
Ateneo de Cagayan

CAVITE:
De La Salle-Dasmariñas at 2nd floor of SBC Building

CEBU:
University of San Carlos, North Campus
Gawad Kalinga Office. Tel 581-9754 or May Nogra 0922-810-1820

DUMAGUETE and NEGROS:
Silliman University. Tweet http://twitter.com/princessngaako

DAVAO:
Ateneo de Davao, Samahan Office in Jacinto Campus
Bantay Bata 163, Matina, Davao City

ZAMBOANGA:
Ateneo de Zamboanga, SACSI Office. Alma Curesma 991-0871, loc 2224 or 2225.

Source: SuperBianca

UNICEF Will Match Your Donations to Philippines – Dollar for Dollar

UNICEF’s webpage writes, “Give today and an anonymous donor will match your gift, dollar for dollar, up to $100,000 — doubling your support for UNICEF’s lifesaving efforts in the Philippines.”

Wells Fargo Eliminates Remittance Transfer Fees To Philippines

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) —with its remittance network member Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) – is temporarily eliminating all remittance transfer fees (normally $5 or $7) for customers sending money using the ExpressSend® service to friends and family in the Philippines impacted by Typhoon Ketsana (also known as Typhoon Ondoy). The fee waiver is effective September 29 through October 12, 2009.

ExpressSend customers can send up to $3,000 a day for $5 if originated from an eligible Wells Fargo account (or $7 if originated from cash). The fee will be waived September 29 through October 12, 2009. Recipients can claim their funds at more than 800 branches and 1,500 plus ATMs throughout the Philippines.

Read more at [Wells Fargo article].

Canadian Red Cross Accepts Donations for Typhoon Ketsana/Ondoy

Philippines Unite for Typhoon Ondoy Victims

Benefit Concert for the Victims of Ondoy

La Salle Schools Offer Relief Distribution Help for Ondoy Victims

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Pag-IBIG Overseas Program for Overseas, Migrant or Naturalized Filipino

The Pag-IBIG Overseas Program (POP) is a voluntary savings program which aims to provide Filipino overseas contract workers, immigrants and naturalized citizens the opportunity to save for their future and the chance to avail of a housing loan of as much as two million Pesos. Membership under the Pag-IBIG Overseas Program (POP) shall be open to all Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) with valid visas or employment contracts. Likewise, it shall be open to Filipino immigrants and to Filipinos naturalized in other countries.

Click here to read more at the “Pinoy Around the World” blog.

Gawad Kalinga to unveil 2024 vision in USA

Gawad Kalinga (GK) founder Tony Meloto will unveil the GK 2024 vision in Boston, USA on June 12, a 21-year timeline to end the poverty of five million Filipinos and build a First World Philippines. GK’s launching as a global social template of development is consistent with the UN Millennium Development Goals that seek to reduce poverty by half by 2015.

Click here to read the full article at Philstar.com.