TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Typhoon Haiyan: Love Package for Northern Cebu, Philippines Arrived!

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Typhoon Haiyan: Love Package for Northern Cebu, Philippines Arrived!

I belong to a Prayer Group to Our Lady of Velankanni,and once a month we meet and pray at the house of Maria Ciocon. When super typhoon Haiyan or Yolanda hit last November, we raised some money, which we sent to Father Romeo Desuyo, parish priest of Odlot in Northern Cebu. Odlot lost 92% of its homes to the super typhoon.

We also gathered clothes, shoes, other things for the survivors, which we mailed via LBC. LBC travels by boat, which takes around a month. Father Desuyo received the first box, and he took a couple of pictures, which he posted in his facebook account. There are two more boxes on the way.

This is a drop in the bucket, but we wanted to share with the people.

The people of Northern Cebu are still in need, and certainly if anyone wishes to send money or goods to Father Desuyo, you may do so. They no longer need canned food.

His address:

Father Romeo Desuyo
Dona Filomena Bldg, 2nd floor
Zulueta St., near Logarta
Tinago, Cebu City
Cebu, Philippines

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.