Help Said by Love to Hope

I volunteered yesterday morning in Sagip Kapamilya. Mainit sa loob ng warehouse. Pero lahat ng hirap titiisin mo alang alang sa bayan mo. You're figuratively giving your life to thousands of lives who needs hope. I can not just stay at home doing nothing. I need to act. And hence, I got a text message from a friend of mine who thought the same. 

Around 8:00 AM, we registered outside the warehouse and wait for our turn to do the repacking of clothes. We were joined by other youths and yuppies and later by nuns from the Religious of the Virgin Mary. 

Nasurpresa ako. Hindi mo kilala yung mga katabi mo, pero naiintindihan namin ang ginagampanan naming papel sa ginagawa namin. Umaagos ang pakiramdan na maibsan ang dalamhati ng mga kababayan na nasalanta. The urge to help out was really overflowing in each of us. Walang pasaway. Walang pabida. Lahat tulong-tulong. 

To Marikina, Cainta, Pasig, Manila, Rizal, Quezon City and other provinces that singlehandedly deduced by Ondoy's wrath, just hold on. Just hold on. Help is on the way. Please hold on.

Today, I'll be there again early in the morning; willing to do my part to save a soul.

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press via Yahoo! News.