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 Cafe By The Ruins  SOUP KITCHEN

FROM DENISE CELDRAN:

We have another truck leaving tonight at 5 pm if you have any goods.  Anything is most welcome of course but today we are hoping to fill it with shovels, heavy gloves, rubber boots, rope, cooking utensils, kawali’s, burners, first aid kits.  This mission is going to the landslide areas.  Send the donations to Marta Lovina’s house at #1 Caimito Place, Mckinley road. Make a right on the road right after polo club.

Please ask them to put a name or a note with the goods they dropped so we can thank them.

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From the Cafe By The Ruins Soup Kitchen

 Baguio and the mountain provinces are a disaster. We’ve set up a soup kitchen at the cafe by the Ruins and our kids are delivering the cooked meals to the villages in far flung areas where govt. has not reached whose homes are under landslides. We are accepting monetary donations in the Ruins, Inc bank account which would be easiest. Relief goods are not sure to get to the right people (you know na how things go). We have been cooking more than a thousand packed meals (3x a day) and delivering them to the people. Our kids and their friends are workforce! We use the money to buy blankets, slippers (so many clothes being donated already),sweaters, basic necessities for cold weather and now coffins too as so many dead bodies with no relief for their families either. Soon we will provide basic cooking utensils for when these families go back to their homes or wherever. Here are the details of our bank account. At least you know if it goes to us you can be sure that your money will be used FOR the people directly. Thanks and God bless.

Name: Ruins Inc. Account #940060574 Banco de Oro, Legarda branch, Yandoc St. Baguio City. For international send : SWIFT code BNORPHMM ROUTING# 0210-0001-8

Thank you from our hearts to yours. MIL GRACIAS!

Thank you so much for extending your love for us to the families that we are now helping! We anticipate that this work will continue beyond this week.

The Cafe is currently distributing relief goods and churning out hot meals 2X daily for Tublay, Itogon, and some groups of volunteers working at ground zero. The families we are serving are mostly farmer families who have lost not only their crops but also their land and homes in massive mudslides. Imagine entire mountainsides turning into muddy rivers. It’s awful! Our team is overwhelmed by the question of how we might help them to start all over again.

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Tublay has three evac centers:

Paoad Elem School 18 families or 76 individuals

Agid 90 individuals (no stats for families yet)

Cosente 25 families, 139 individuals

TOTAL PERSONS WE ARE SERVING, INCL. VOLUNTEERS: 300

In Tublay we are working with the Sangguniang Kabataan chair (a supergirl, 17-years old, who has been staying in Paoad with the evacuees, even if her own home was spared) and the municipal officials

directly in charge of the evacuation centers.

Itogon has three evac centers:

Itogon Training Center 45 families, 174 individuals

Dalicno Day Care 12 families

Kias Day Care 2 families

TOTAL PERSONS WE ARE SERVING, INCL. VOLUNTEERS: 275

In Itogon we are working with the MSWD, coursed through the mayor’s daughter.

We are also serving daily a total of 250 snacks for volunteers working on the ground in Puguis, Lamtang, and Tublay. There are many still missing and the volunteers continue the search.

Please find attached a wish list we’ve collated based on requests from displaced families, social workers, and volunteers who are still digging for the missing or who are hauling relief goods on foot across

landslides. The funds that you have donated will go towards serving more hot meals and fulfilling as many wishes as possible on this list.

Again, thank you from the bottom of our Baguio hearts 🙂

Love,

Padma

WISH LIST:

Medicines and vitamins, especially for children

First aid kits and other medical supplies

Bigas

Monggo and/or black beans… Read More

Dried fish

Vegetables

Baby food

Raincoats

Boots

Shovels

Flashlights with batteries

Candles

Gaseras

Solar chargers for cellphones (so that people in areas cut-off by landslides and without electricity can text)

3 sets static ropes, harness, carabiners, eight-ring (for volunteers

digging and hauling goods across landslides)

Bolos

New underwear (for kids and grownups)

Sanitary napkins

Diapers

Slippers

Socks

Blankets

Clothes

Soap

Shampoo

Toothpaste

Dishwashing soap

Detergent

Balde

Tabo

Towels

T-shirts for volunteers doing retrieval work

Cooking pots and ladles for households starting over

Plates

Utensils

Notebooks

Padpaper

Pencils

Ballpens

Crayons

Gas stove

For monetary donations, please send to (Cafe by the) RUINS INC. savings account #940060574, BANCO DE ORO, Baguio Legarda branch, Yandoc Street,

Baguio City. SWIFT CODE: BNORPHMM, ROUTING #: 0210-0001-8.

Cafe by the Ruins is Mitos Benitez Yniguez and Baboo Mondonedo, hereis the cellphone of Mitos….sister of JoseFil Benitez of the CasaMario’s fame……its +639178155060

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From Marie Concepcion- Young

GK has 3 sites (Zambales, Subic and Manila)  These are their collection and repacking points.  For those in Manila, they can drop off their relief goods at the RFM Company Store next to the gym (Pioneer st. cor sheridan)  We have kept this open to accept donations from Manila and these are distributed in the different areas in the North.  On Monday, they have another trip going to Baguio with relief.

For those who also would like to help rebuild, i am also helping a classmate of mine.  Kimi Shultz Cojuangco who is the mayor of Sison, Pangasinan.  983 hectares of rice land were destroyed when the dike broke and the landslides from Baguio.  they are located in the eastern most side of pangasinan.  We are trying to help her raise money to buy certified seeds.  P1,200 will provide 1 sack of seed for 1 hectare of rice land.  Not only are we going to help give hope to a farmer, we will also provide rice (a basic staple of many filipinos)  They only have the window of Oct. and November to replant.  

Having the central location of White Cross (White cross is located at  276 Santolan Rd. San Juan Metro Manila telephone number 724-2415)  be the area where people can drop off calderos, plates (preferably the melamie), spoons and forks, cooking utensils is a good idea.  Once we have we can pack them in bulk and find a way to send them to Benguet c/o the Cafe by the ruins group or GK.  This could also be the drop off for blankets, bonnets, banigs which they could use.

I am sure there are many others helping and wanting to help.  These are just a few of the ways.  My number is 908 8810583 and i can make sure that their donations go to the people who need it and without any political color.

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From Stephanie Villaraza and Chary Mercado

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