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March 3, 2014

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Arriving in Iloilo

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We arrived at around 530am in Iloilo Airport. It’s only 50 minutes to get to Iloilo from Manila!! And wow, what a beautiful airport!! Thanks to Tito Frank Drilon for building such a nice airport! I was a bit sleepy so I was not able to take photos so I had to borrow this photo.

This is the reason we had to be ready to rough it out 🙂 We took an hour land ride to Port of Estancia

Eds told me that after Yolanda, this place was full of dead bodies lying on the ground 🙁

We went together with the Negrense Volunteers for Change ( NVC ) headed by Tito Noel and Tita Mariel Tolentino, Camille Tolentino Genuino, Giselle Tolentino, Benger and Toni Ben and our Iloilo based hosts Allan and Allen. Everything was planned so well and went smoothly

Full force attendance by the Syquia family!

More photos of the port. This is where they trade their catch

Working our way towards our bangka

We thought our boat was the one in front! Nope!! It was the smallest one and the farthest one 🙂 O oh! 🙂 We crawled our way towards that little boat by walking from biggest boat to medium boat to small boat haha!!

On the way to Carles – A boat hit by Yolanda

Trees that fell sideways

Around 45 minutes we arrived at Carles

Because it was high tide, we could not go too near the shore so we had to walk! Which explains why Camille told us to wear shorts or capri pants – I think it had to be short shorts 🙂 This is Clarissa in her long jeans which she had to fold and still got wet

Tita Mariel roughing it out just like all of us

Traps being built and used for fishing

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March 2, 2014

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Important Philippine Art Auction by ACCPF

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I had lunch with Rajo Laurel last week and aside from being a great and talented designer, he is also a source of many things! He knows a lot 🙂 He also told me about the upcoming Art Auction which will be for the benefit of the ACCPF ( Asian Cultural Council of the Philippines Foundation ) where he is a Board of Trustee together with another friend, Malu Gamboa

Many beautiful works of art up for auction at the same time, you give back and help the ACCPF

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February 21, 2014

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AC Eco Bags by Pre Kinder Class 2014

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Cute Eco bags from my sister, Margs! It’s for fundraising for Barangay Martinez, an adopted Assumption Community in Antique which was badly affected by Yolanda. It’s a combined effort of all the levels wherein each one had to come up with products to sell. The Pre-Kinder batch decided to do these eco bags. A few more pieces left, Hope you can support. Please contact Margs at 0917-8933913

February 10, 2014

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Project Wheelchair

By Heart2Heart | Foodie, For kids, Giving Back, Tributes | 2 Comments

We all know Dedet as the famous Pepita’s Lechon.

Previous entries: Pepita’s Lechon March 3, 2012

New From Pepita’s Kitchen October 22, 2013

Dedet is such a warm and simple person. She’s always so soft spoken and so humble despite the success she is enjoying with her business. And if you have had a degustation or have seen some photos from her dinners, you will always see her two little Pepitas helping out. They are always there with Dedet. And there’s a third little Pepita, an angel. Aside from sharing with you her lechon here at Heart2Heart, there’s a heartwarming story I would like to share, about this little angel who continues to watch over the Pepitas. Dedet wrote the story for all of you and here it is

From Lileya and Liyora – do contact them ( projectwheelchair3@gmail.com ) if you would like to donate cash, or wheelchairs, crutches, walkers, whether brand new or second hand. A brand new wheelchair where Dedet gets wheelchairs costs around P 2,600, walkers P 1,000 and crutches for P 600.00 a pair. They started this project for kids but now it is for anyone who is in need for wheelchairs

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January 31, 2014

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Rags to Riches

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Amazing how this lady has accomplished at such a young age. Reese Fernandez, 27 years old!

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January 30, 2014

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Doctors on Bike to Help Lives

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Our good friend Ned helped raise funds for a friend’s project -Medical bikes in the provinces to equip the doctors to move with ease to help patients in their areas. Ned was blessed to get generous friends to sponsor 6 out of the 10 bikes already. If you would like to help and sponsor a bike for P 21,000.00 for them to reach their goal of 10 bikes, please contact Ned Hourani at nedhourani@gmail.com