Hope After the Storm (Part 2)

Hope After the Storm (Part 2)

Help kept coming in from friends and from clients abroad. One Voice Magazine and Help International partnered with us and sent monetary support to continue the outreaches. The third wave of community outreach was the most emotional one. We distributed bags of rice in...
Hope After the Storm (Part 1)

Hope After the Storm (Part 1)

I woke up to the sounds of busy streets and happy noises from children playing. I checked my phone with eyes half-open to see what time it was. It was 2:00 p.m., no wonder I felt hungry. A couple of months had passed since Typhoon Odette “Rai” struck Cebu, but the...
Reaching Out to Storm-Stricken Montalban

Reaching Out to Storm-Stricken Montalban

OB fed thousands of families in storm-stricken Rizal “We’ve been through every other typhoon, but we never saw anything like this,” Flordeliza Flores of Montalban, Rizal, shared as she waited in line to pick up her meal in a vacant lot near her house. There, Operation...
2020 in Perspective

2020 in Perspective

“What was Your story this year, Lord?” If there’s one thing I learned from crafting personal stories, it’s that there are so many layers. There’s the layer of story that unfolds before the writer’s eyes; and then the layer we don’t see—the one spun inwardly and...