CALAMITY CALABASA

CALAMITY CALABASA. Sitting right now in RuRi North are 1,000 kilos of PUMPKINS, and we can get more. We’d like to bring those Pumpkins to Badjao-Dalahican in Cavite City for distribution to the victims of the recent fire there. These Pumpkins have been paid to the farmers already and we can certainly get more. If you remember, our group sent Pumpkins to the victims of Mayon Volcano eruption. That effort was called “Mayon Tayo Magagawa”. On top of our donations, in solidarity with their fellow farmers, our Nueva Ecija farmers volunteered to give more. Here is a video of that. When the Pumpkins arrived in Mayon, they were converted to nutritious cooked food. (Here is a video of that too.) What we would like to do is do the same thing for the fire victims in Cavite. The local government has declared a State of Emergency so we know the situation is bad. Of particular concern are the dogs. If people are hungry, the dogs would be starving. We shall ensure that they get fed too.

RuRi, those of you who would like to participate in this, God bless you.

We are making an urgent call to help our kababayans dispalced by a fire in Cavite City. Many of them are poor fisherfolk. Farmers and fishermen are the people that Rural Rising has vowed to help. A small thing like a pumpkin is a big thing to a family that’s facing hunger. If you haven’t seen the declaration of State of Calamity, it’s here in the pictures. Our group shall load a truck with Rescue Pumpkins and send them to Cavite. Thousands of homeless families will be facing a shortage of food. They will be eating salty canned sardines and unhealthy noodles, the staple contents of a typical Philippines relief pack. We want to send them Rescue Pumpkins. Pumpkins they can boil into soup for even the youngest children to eat. Pumpkins that can be easily roasted over a stone fire, to go with rice or as a substitute for it. We shall try a way for them to be cooked, perhaps our friends from Alagang Kapatid can do it again.

One Hundred Pesos (P100) will allow us to buy TWO PUMPKINS for you from our distressed Nueva Ecija farmers and send them to Cavite. It’s the best thing you can do, and it is a lot. One truck is enough to feed a whole evacuation center for days, it will be welcomed with much cheering when it shows up. While Andie and I are likely not able to travel there, our hearts and our Pumpkins will be with them, God willing. We hope so much for this effort to succeed.

We are enjoining @everyone to SEND A PUMPKIN TO CAVITE. You can do something to help. If you give P100, we shall send this RESCUE PUMPKIN in my hand and another one, TWO PUMPKINS, to the fire victims of Cavite.

If you want to send more pumpkins to Cavite:
1 Send any amount to GCash 09175017787
2 Send any amount to Asia United Bank 545-11-000128-5, Rural Rising Philippines Inc.

This is our sincere PROMISE to convey your donations in the fullest. God bless all of you who take this call to action, to allow our group to help in whatever way we can to our countrymen in distress.

@everyone, salamat po. Mabuhay po kayong lahat.

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