Flow Yoga QC supports Typhoon Ondoy survivors w/ services, boxes of canned goods, soya drinks, choco drinks

YOGINS IN ACTION (apologies 2 JC 4 d title)

In the evacuation centers alone of the DSWD, there are 50,000 families trying to keep body and soul together (multiply that by 4 = 200,000 individuals); the World Food Aid Program estimates that about 450,000 individuals lost their loved ones, homes and all their belongings to Typhoon Ondoy (from DZMM’s Tina Monzon Palma, ABS-CBN)

(the Flow Yoga QC teacher pooled contributions from Monday’s ashtanga yoga class and her fees for that day in a fund. KQ earlier that day participated in relief operations in Ateneo, in a mile-long “relay line” of a truckload of mineral water. Del brought clothes and beddings to the drop off center in U.P. Dr. Shelley gave contributions earlier that day. (that early Monday morning, a yoga teacher suggested that we pool our efforts to help in relief operations.)

Monday evening: packed boxes of canned goods, soya drinks, choco drinks, biscuits from the nearby grocery store; brought these the next day to the drop off point in U.P. (GG Hall of UCCP or United Churches of Christ of the Philippines beside the Protestant Church; organized by the U.P. Student Council for survivors of Typhoon Ondoy; donations received by the U.P. Student Council’s Mr. Titus Tan).

a tiny contribution.

Today while talking about the participation in the relief operations, a yoga teacher asked me: And why do 240 people have to die, for us to realize our neglect, the state of our ill-preparedness?…

It’s a question that has to be asked now even as we  intensify relief operations.