TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Tropical Storm Trami (or Maring) Causes Havoc in the Philippines

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Tropical Storm Trami (or Maring) Causes Havoc in the Philippines - Call for donations to Red Cross

There's a call (from a reliable source) for donations of clothes, blankets, etc - read below

Please bring your donations to the nearest Red Cross Chapter or Branch.
Clothes, blankets, drinking water, mosquito nets, medicine, rice, canned goods, noodles, bread.

Rizal Chapter - Shaw Blvd. In front of Capital Commons, near Kapitolyo (635-09-22)
San Juan Branch - Santolan. Near Ortigas Ave.
Marikina Branch - J.P. Rizal St. In front of Shoe Museum.
Las Pinas Branch - Bernabe Compound, Pulang Lupa (0916-687-4329, 0927-541-7063)
Pasay City Branch - 2345 CAA Compound, Aurora Blvd. (0917-815-1179)
Quezon City Branch - Quezon City Hall Compound, Kalayaan Ave.,
Diliman

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For more information about the storm:

Tropical Storm Trami and Monsoon Rains Causing Flooding in the Philippines
Tropical Storm Trami Threatens Taiwan, China as the Philippines Floods
Timeline of Philippines' worst typhoon disasters
Torrential rains shut down Philippine capital

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tags: Philippines, typhoon, storm, Maring, Trami, flooding, Manila, tropical storm, Red Cross

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.