Raising money for the homeless..
.. lest i forget, let me share how we were able to raise the money donated to help the homeless at GK Arkong Bato.
.. i joined a yahoogroup of peope who did not want PGMA to resign during the height of rallies and calls for her resignation. a member of the group (sis amy of germany) probably saw my opinion which was published at the Philippine Daily Inquirer and invited me to join their group, the Filipinos for Better Philippines.
.. within the group members, we exchanged opinions about what we want to make a Better Philippines. I suggested we help in the rehabilitation of the survivors of a landslide in Southern Leyte (Guinsaugon). A highly publicized catastrophe in the Visayas region. In few days, thousand pesos have been pledged by the egroup members.
..being the first prject of the group, it was difficult to collect the money because the members were far apart from one another being scattered in different countries around the world. this is in addition to the fact that we haven’t seen each one yet. but since i was the proponent of the project, they decided to send the money to my account. in three months, i was able to collect Php103,000 from the people i haven’t seen yet. they just trusted me. the project was relocated to Gawad Kalinga in Manila from the original Guinsaugon because, by the time we were able to collect the money, Guinsaugon was already flooded with donations.
..by late july, i was ready for the turn over. fortunately, two of our OFW members, Mon Garra of Riyadh and Kuyang Ben Samonte of USA were in town for their annual vacation. i wasted no time in contacting them including members residing in Manila. Alma Falco of Makati likewise joined us during the fund turn-over to Gawad Kalinga.
