Bagamat si Ondoy ay nagdulot nang malawak at malagim na kapinsalaan, ito naman ay muling nagpatotoo na ang lahing Pilipino ay may bukal na kabutihan at pagmamahal sa kapwa. Sa mga nakaraang kalamidad dala ng matitinding bagyo, baha, lindol, at pagputok ng bulkan, paulit-ulit na ipinamalas ng Pilipino ang kahandaan nito na tumulong at dumamay sa kapwa na nangangailangan, sukdulang isakripisyo ang sariling buhay gaya ng namasdan natin na kabayanihan ng ilan nating mga kababayan.
Gaya halimbawa ng isang 19-year-old man na nagligtas sa buhay ng mahigit na dalawampung tao hanggang siya ay inabot ng panghihina at tinangay ng baha but not after he had put one more person to safety before his last remaining strength gave out. There were others like this young man who gave their lives to save others in the hour of greatest need.
Ang ating mga kababayan sa Angeles at mga kaibigan natin sa Mabalacat, bagamat ang mga lugar na ito ay di napuksa ni Ondoy, ay nagpamalas din ng kabayanihan, hindi sa pagsasakripisyo ng sariling buhay pagkat hindi naman yan ang hamon na naharap sa kanila—na kung yan naman ang naging hamon sa kanila ng pagkakataon ay naniniwala akong walang pagsala naman nilang tatanggapin—-kundi sa pamamagitan ng buong pusong pagbibigay ng tulong sa mga kababayan nating nasalanta ng bagyong Ondoy.
Nuong Linggo ng gabi (September 27), sa kasagsagan ng malakas na ulan at pagbaha, lingid sa kaalaman ng marami, ay dagling nagpunta ang ating mahal na Pangulo dito sa Clark Field, Angeles City, at kung saan ay inalam niya ang kalagayan ng ating mga cabalen dito sa Pampanga. Kaagad ay tumugon sa panawagan ng Pangulo ang mga punongbayan na pinangungunahan ng ating mabunying kaibigan na si Boking Morales ng Mabalacat, ng mga opisyales ng Clark Development Corporation (CDC) at Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC), mga lider sibiko tulad ng Angeles City Jaycees, at ng mga negosyante sa siyudad Angeles at Mabalacat.
Bukod sa personal na donasyon na Php50,000.00, Pareng Boking solicited Php250,000.00 from personal friends, and turned all the donated moneys to Angeles City Culiat Jaycees president Avelaine Nepomuceno for the victims of typhoon Ondoy. Pareng Boking did not stop there. He continues to raise funds and donations in cash or in kind for delivery to the families and residents of San Juan Bano, of the town of Arayat, who suffered from the landslide in Mt. Arayat.
Our good friends Benny Ricafort, president and chief executive officer of CDC, and Chichos Luciano, president and chief executive officer of CIAC, immediately organized Clark Outreach Program for Ondoy Victims in response to the President’s call and were soon joined by the Clark Investors and Locators Association (CILA), the 600th Air Base Wing of the Philippine Air Force, and the Angeles City Culiat Jaycees, and they, with their officers and employees, all together conducted relief operations in Arayat, Candaba and Lubao.
CDC and CIAC each donated Php250,000.00, while the Clark Freeport Zone locators, namely, Cyber City Teleservices, Paradise Ranch, Aritake Estates, and Widus International have each donated Php100,000.
Peregrine Development International president Dennis Wright has pledged a donation of Php500,000.00, apart from providing twenty (20) volunteers and heavy equipment (bulldozers and dump trucks) to clear damaged areas. Another Clark Freeport Zone top locator, Smart Shirts, pledged Php100,000.00 of export-quality clothes for the Ondoy victims.
Also, CILA, 600th Air Base Wing of the Philippine Air Force and CIAC have together raised more than Php1,000,000.00.
The Clark Outreach Program for Ondoy Victims, apart from the cash donations, distributed 2,500 packs of various relief goods in Arayat, Candaba and Lubao, the Pampanga towns that were hardest hit by Ondoy.
Ang pagtulong at pagdamay sa mga kababayan natin na nabiktima ni Ondoy ay nagpapatuloy hanggang ngayon. Pero di pa man natatapos ang ginagawang relief operations ay meron na namang bagyong dumating na pinangalanang Melor. Ito yung bagyo na tinukoy ko sa aking kolum nitong nakaraang Linggo na nag-aambang pumasok sa Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR)—at ngayon ay nakapasok na nga. Kasalukuyan itong nasa Northern Luzon provinces of Cagayan, Benguet, Kalinga, at Ilocos Norte, even while Pepeng is still stationery offshore north-northwest of Laoag, Ilocos Norte.
Bagamat si Melor ay malayo pa sa Angeles City o sa kabuuang Pampanga at tila maaaring kumilos patungo sa direksyon ng Japan, and although Pepeng is expected to weaken and to move toward Vietnam, kailangan pa rin ang paghahanda. Mas mabuti na mamalaging nakahanda kesa sa hindi.
Good day and Mabuhay to you all! See you again next week.
Gaya halimbawa ng isang 19-year-old man na nagligtas sa buhay ng mahigit na dalawampung tao hanggang siya ay inabot ng panghihina at tinangay ng baha but not after he had put one more person to safety before his last remaining strength gave out. There were others like this young man who gave their lives to save others in the hour of greatest need.
Ang ating mga kababayan sa Angeles at mga kaibigan natin sa Mabalacat, bagamat ang mga lugar na ito ay di napuksa ni Ondoy, ay nagpamalas din ng kabayanihan, hindi sa pagsasakripisyo ng sariling buhay pagkat hindi naman yan ang hamon na naharap sa kanila—na kung yan naman ang naging hamon sa kanila ng pagkakataon ay naniniwala akong walang pagsala naman nilang tatanggapin—-kundi sa pamamagitan ng buong pusong pagbibigay ng tulong sa mga kababayan nating nasalanta ng bagyong Ondoy.
Nuong Linggo ng gabi (September 27), sa kasagsagan ng malakas na ulan at pagbaha, lingid sa kaalaman ng marami, ay dagling nagpunta ang ating mahal na Pangulo dito sa Clark Field, Angeles City, at kung saan ay inalam niya ang kalagayan ng ating mga cabalen dito sa Pampanga. Kaagad ay tumugon sa panawagan ng Pangulo ang mga punongbayan na pinangungunahan ng ating mabunying kaibigan na si Boking Morales ng Mabalacat, ng mga opisyales ng Clark Development Corporation (CDC) at Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC), mga lider sibiko tulad ng Angeles City Jaycees, at ng mga negosyante sa siyudad Angeles at Mabalacat.
Bukod sa personal na donasyon na Php50,000.00, Pareng Boking solicited Php250,000.00 from personal friends, and turned all the donated moneys to Angeles City Culiat Jaycees president Avelaine Nepomuceno for the victims of typhoon Ondoy. Pareng Boking did not stop there. He continues to raise funds and donations in cash or in kind for delivery to the families and residents of San Juan Bano, of the town of Arayat, who suffered from the landslide in Mt. Arayat.
Our good friends Benny Ricafort, president and chief executive officer of CDC, and Chichos Luciano, president and chief executive officer of CIAC, immediately organized Clark Outreach Program for Ondoy Victims in response to the President’s call and were soon joined by the Clark Investors and Locators Association (CILA), the 600th Air Base Wing of the Philippine Air Force, and the Angeles City Culiat Jaycees, and they, with their officers and employees, all together conducted relief operations in Arayat, Candaba and Lubao.
CDC and CIAC each donated Php250,000.00, while the Clark Freeport Zone locators, namely, Cyber City Teleservices, Paradise Ranch, Aritake Estates, and Widus International have each donated Php100,000.
Peregrine Development International president Dennis Wright has pledged a donation of Php500,000.00, apart from providing twenty (20) volunteers and heavy equipment (bulldozers and dump trucks) to clear damaged areas. Another Clark Freeport Zone top locator, Smart Shirts, pledged Php100,000.00 of export-quality clothes for the Ondoy victims.
Also, CILA, 600th Air Base Wing of the Philippine Air Force and CIAC have together raised more than Php1,000,000.00.
The Clark Outreach Program for Ondoy Victims, apart from the cash donations, distributed 2,500 packs of various relief goods in Arayat, Candaba and Lubao, the Pampanga towns that were hardest hit by Ondoy.
Ang pagtulong at pagdamay sa mga kababayan natin na nabiktima ni Ondoy ay nagpapatuloy hanggang ngayon. Pero di pa man natatapos ang ginagawang relief operations ay meron na namang bagyong dumating na pinangalanang Melor. Ito yung bagyo na tinukoy ko sa aking kolum nitong nakaraang Linggo na nag-aambang pumasok sa Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR)—at ngayon ay nakapasok na nga. Kasalukuyan itong nasa Northern Luzon provinces of Cagayan, Benguet, Kalinga, at Ilocos Norte, even while Pepeng is still stationery offshore north-northwest of Laoag, Ilocos Norte.
Bagamat si Melor ay malayo pa sa Angeles City o sa kabuuang Pampanga at tila maaaring kumilos patungo sa direksyon ng Japan, and although Pepeng is expected to weaken and to move toward Vietnam, kailangan pa rin ang paghahanda. Mas mabuti na mamalaging nakahanda kesa sa hindi.
Good day and Mabuhay to you all! See you again next week.
