Best Trip Ever: Typhoon Drive Update

Dear Trip or Treaters

Let me update you on the day that has passed. I was contacted by a local magazine/website to be featured for my efforts to help the victims of the unfortunate event that is Typhoon Ondoy. Since I promised to update those who gave, and also those who are in the loop, I'll just send you what I sent the writer... because I'm damn tired and there is so much work to do. Multitasking at its best.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Trip Or Treats

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: J
Date: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Subject:  Typhoon Efforts
To:

Hi ,

I'm going to try to follow your SMS as much as possible, then inject nalang in the bottom so you get the details:

PLAN:

A group of us girls (Gel Schmeing Cruz, Tanya Cuaso, Hilary Favila) discussed last Monday to help the ones ignored and prepare just 500 bags of relief goods + 500 cooked meals for San Mateo, Rizal, an area with over 80k families in distress but very low on the media mileage.  Sent an SMS + facebook efforts regarding this.



THEN, my Mother and mother Ricky Reyes wanted to do something different, so we organized Kain Na Juan/Kainan ng Bayan(Eat Now, Juan/Cafeteria of the Nation), a soupkitchen program to go direct and give am/pm lugaw (porridge and lunch rice meals to 2000 the victims in Nangka, Marikina, the shantiest of all Marikina towns which was completely shattered. We collaborated on this. and will start on Thursday

AND THEN, my uncle (who is a doctor) called me up on Monday showing his interest in doing a Medical Mission with us on Saturday... since I was on a roll I decided to take on yet another load since it was all intertwined. I found a generic drugstore and will order goods on top of the medicine which was donated over the past few days

DONATIONS:
SMS'd, Emailed, Facebooked, Twittered and posted on my blog http://www.triportreats.com regarding the three different activites we had set up!

I accepted donations of cash thru my account, goods at home, and contacted my subdivision to use the Clubhouse for our packing efforts.

ACTION:
 

• As of today we have raised over P200k in cash and gathered overwhelming support not only in kind donations, but through helping hands especially during our packing today! We packed over 1500 bags & 

   


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