ACP Activity: Volunteers for DSWD Bayanihang Bayan Program for Typhoon Victims

[juanarodriguez]

Magandang araw! Guys and gals napag-usapan last EB * La Mesa Ecopark ang possibility of ACP joining or volunteering. DSWD is currently in need of volunteers under their Bayanihang Bayan Program for the Repacking of Relief Goods for Typhoon Victims (http://vrplus.dswd.gov.ph/).
Jaukazrule (thanks sir) informed me this morning that we can join the operation on:
DATE: NOVEMBER 7, SATURDAY
TIME: 1:00PM - 5:00 PM
PLACE:
DSWD National Resource Operation Center
Chapel Road, Pasay City (behind the building of the Air Transportation Office)

I called up this morning and accdg dun sa contact person ko, take NAIA Road, then turn right sa Baltao St. right aftr the Air Transport Office. Turn right ulit to Chapel Road katabi lang po sila ng Airport Police Department building. Red Gate with DSWD NROC sign

DSWD also accepts donations such as ready-to-eat food and canned goods; and other commodities like mats, blankets, and mosquito nets


THINGS TO BRING:
1. Extra shirt
2. Towel
3. Food and drinks
4. Wet tissue


Please sign-up below if you can join us in this activity (please indicate also if you plan to donate relief goods) :
P.S. I need the list of names by OCT 30 Friday 4pm kasi po ipapadala ko sa DSWD. Please write the complete name/s ng mga sasama

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[shadow3616931]

Baka cash donation nalang ako

[chachoy]

ms jane tingnan ko lang po schedule ko

[swethart]

Thanks for this initiative mam jane but sad to say I'll be back on duty abroad sa 27 dapat pala iniwanan ko na dala ko relief goods nun sa EB e nawala concentration ko sobra likot ng jr ko. Magreport ako sa office tomorrow kanino kaya pwede iwanan o puntahan ko if malapit lang sa area ng Evangelista Makati.

To those who will give their time for this activity MABUHAY PO KAYO!

[meledson]

This is a voluntary endeavor, sana po may mga available para tumulong.

Salamat ma'am jane for this.

[jokermanny]

subukan ko po magpapalit ng duty sa nov 7 para makasama.no chance po ba na may work pa on nov 8?thanks

[rbmjr_27]

sorry po, pass muna ko conflict sa schedule nasa architect's assembly ako from nov. 5,6,7 & 8.

[swethart]

Good day ACP! I met sir cherey yesterday * evangelista. He's so kind to pick up my share to this activity and treated me pa for a miryenda. Nice meeting you sir!

[Lady_fox]

te jane, may project milestone kami baka di kami makapunta. text na lang you. muahs!

[werty]

P.S. I need the list of names by OCT 30 Friday 4pm kasi po ipapadala ko sa DSWD. Please write the complete name/s ng mga sasama

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mam, hindi pa sure kung ano madadala ko...

[prince777]

good am mga sirs and maam of the ACP!

just happened to read a forwarded email from "Blog ni Ella" saying that the reason why the goods at DSWD are not moving because there are no Volunteers!...i would think that there might be some of you from DSWD here but allow me to quote the message here.. I salute you guys for your eagerness to help the victims!

(This post was last edited Oct 22, 12:30 pm)
Kahapon, tinanong ng Philippine News si DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral:
Editor of Philippine News: Why are the relief goods in DSWD warehouses not moving?
DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral: Wala kasing volunteers.
This short interview was done over the phone. Philippine News wanted to hear her side pero ayaw niyang makipag-usap sa press. After four tries, pinasabi na lang niya ang maikling sagot na ito sa secretary niya - "Walang volunteers".
I don’t want to accuse her of corruption but at the very least she is showing signs of being totally incompetent. We are in a state of calamity where every second counts. May namamatay araw-araw dahil sa sakit.
In my opinion, these deaths could have been prevented if Secretary Cabral had tried a little harder to do her job.
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"Tropical Storm Ketsana left 420 dead and 37 missing when it flooded 80 percent of Manila on September 26, a disaster the government said affected 4.35 million people.
Some areas are still flooded three weeks later and 189,000 people remain in evacuation centres,
Typhoon Parma hit the northern Philippines on October 3 and lingered as a tropical storm for a week, triggering landslides that killed 438 people and leaving 51 missing mostly in mountain communities.
The government agency said Parma affected 4.16 million people, including more than 32,000 who remain at evacuation centres."
During the first week after the storm, lumabas ang "bayanihan spirit" ng mga Pinoy. "Makatulong lang kahi’t konti," katwiran nila.
kung walang volunteers, ano ‘to, komiks?
From Stella Arnaldo’s blog:
"At the offices of many civic groups and private organizations, hundreds of people showed up to volunteer in packing relief goods.
At the Tulong Bayan center at the Expo Centro in Cubao, Most of the volunteers were adolescents as young as 10 years old, along with their kuya or ate in high school and college.
They came in huge numbers, many of them barkadas, classmates or siblings, dressed just in their tees and shorts, wearing their Havaianas. All were just enthusiastic to do their share!

GMA asked world for donations
Our government begged the world for more donations. Sumagot ang buong mundo sa ating panawagan. In less than three weeks, dumaong ang mga barko, ibinaba mula sa mga cargo planes, i-diniliver ng mga trak at container vans ang sandamakmak na relief goods. Cash donations were in the millions of dollars.
But these donations must be coursed through DSWD
Nagpalabas ng directive ang pangulo. Individuals, private companies and other nations were ENCOURAGED to send their donations to DSWD. I blogged about it here and the video of her announcement here.
This PGMA directive sounded suspicious to me then. Now I know why. Here’s the story.
A group of eight people, your ate Ella included, went to one of DSWD warehouses to help in repacking relief goods. We know they need volunteers pero hindi namin akalaing WALANG TAO TALAGA SA LOOB NG WAREHOUSE!
As in sa isang humongous warehouse (1000++ sq.m) NA PUNONG-PUNO NG RELIEF GOODS HANGGANG BUBONG, ISANG DSWD employee lang at ISANG SECURITY GUARD ang tao!!
Kailangang magpa-register at i-schedule ang volunteering

1) UNICEF Registration (as a volunteer)
The warehouse can only take as much as 50 volunteers at a time or per shift. Here you will find that there is a 4-hour shift, and an option for a 6-hour shift for the volunteers to indicate their availability.
What "volunteers"? Nasaan?
Aside from the 8 of us? Nope, there was nobody there. Bakit kailangan ang scheduling? Feeling hindi ba magkamayaw at nagu-unahan ang mga volunteers?
I know somebody who wanted to volunteer many times. She was always bumped off, laging nirere-schedule kasi "there were too many volunteers" daw. At tuwing Sunday lang daw puwede. What the hell is going on here?
Nakatambak ang donations ng UNICEF sa warehouse, local and international
Mga banig na dapat ay nahihigaan ng mga nasalanta. Mga imported camp beds na hindi na yata masisilayan ng mga biktima. Mga kumot na hindi naman nakabalot sa katawan nila. At mga pagkaing hindi sumasayad sa sikmura nila.
The relief goods are not going anywhere
We arrived at about 8 am and left by midafternoon and yes, you guessed it right. Kami pa rin ang tao bukod sa isang DSWD employee sa loob ng warehouse maghapon. Walang ibang dumating.
The relief goods are not moving. By the way things look, they are not going anywhere. Hindi maglalakad mag-isa ang mga donations na ito papunta sa mga evacuation centers.

"The first of two of the largest high-energy food shipments from the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) arrived in the country two days ago for victims of storm "Ondoy" and typhoon "Pepeng."
The biscuits were fortified with essential vitamins and minerals for supplementary feeding to children, pregnant women and the elderly in evacuation camps. Another 100 tons of biscuits will arrive on Oct. 24, in a continuing effort to provide food assistance to flood victims.

Sige, ideretso ‘nyo ulit ‘yan sa DSWD warehouse. Para AMAG naman ang abutin ng biskwit… at sapot ng gagamba.

Conclusion

Sa maghapon namin sa warehouse,nakagawa kami ng 150 sacks of relief goods. 150 bags of relief goods lang ang lumabas sa warehouse na ‘yon that day. At nandoon pa rin sa loob ang mga imported relief goods, safe, sound and packed as the day they arrived.
Nakisakay kami palabas sa isang DSWD delivery van. Gusto sana kaming ihatid ng driver hanggang Makati pero wala raw siyang sobrang gasolina. Ibinaba na lang niya kami sa gitna ng EDSA. Millions of dollars in donations, walang extrang pang-gasolina.
Susulpot din siguro ang laman ng mga mahiwagang kahon at mapapasakamay din ng mga tao…sa ARAW NG ELEKSYON. O mabibili na nila ang mga imported goods na ‘yon sa mga puwesto sa Quiapo at Divisoria.

there are a bunch of photos from this message that shows how big is the warehouse but nobody is there working the whole day and even they forbid the volunteer to take pictures, they still manage to get some photos...

[nencila]

http://www.ellaganda.com/?p=1759

eto po yung link..

[prince777]

ipinost ko nalang po yung previous message kasi naka websense yung site...

[Cherey]

Good day ACP! I met sir cherey yesterday * evangelista. He's so kind to pick up my share to this activity and treated me pa for a miryenda. Nice meeting you sir!

Nice meeting you din sir,dalin ko nalang yung donation mo, Hi mis jane
dalin ko nalng kay sir werty yung aming donation kasama yung kay sir sweatheart.

[shadow3616931]

Muka inamag na thread na to, next typhoon nalang uli

[swethart]

Muka inamag na thread na to, next typhoon nalang uli

Maybe,...supposed-to- be volunteers ay nawalan na ng gana after reading blog ni Ella. Nakakadismaya talaga! Next time and better ay iderekta na lang ang tulong sa mga naapektohang tao o lugar.

[silent_breaker1]

yeah... tingin ko nga dahil sa blog ni ella... hehe... ksi nman nakakapag taka talaga dahil kelangan pa magpa-schedule samantalang sa ABS-CBN ang daming volunteers...

[h83d]

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here is another... hello mods?