The things we do and the help we give now shouldn’t just be for this week. We have got to think about the long term: after we pack the goods and distribute, after we sympathize and console, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NEXT? And it’s not just the government’s problem. It’s all of OURS.


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DONATIONS for the victims of Typhoon Ondoy may be dropped off in the following SITES:
1. Team Manila, Petron, and Papemelroti branches
2. Tulong Bayan – White Space
(along Pasong Tamo Extension, nr Glaxo Smith Klein and Silverlens Gallery)
3. Tulong Bayan – Expo Centro, Araneta Center, Cubao
(Volunteers are welcome, 8am-9pm)
4. Ateneo de Manila University, Manny V Pangilinan Building
(Volunteers [...]

21 September 2009, Club Filipino, San Juan


Maraming maraming salamat po sa inyong lahat. Magandang tanghali po. Happy Holidays to our Muslim brothers.
Salamat, Noynoy, sa tiwalang ipinagkaloob mo sa akin. Salamat sa karangalang maging kasama mo sa paglilingkod sa bayan. Thank you for this opportunity to work with you as we raise the banner of reform. [...]

[A re-post from Facebook, 3 September 2009]
A broken heart, for anyone, is the hardest to heal. There’s pain, denial, and a deep feeling of hurt, sadness, and aimlessness. What I and my colleagues are going through the past few days is no different.
It feels like there’s a hole, an emptiness, wrought from a battle prematurely [...]