Dear Friends and Allies
Yesterday, February 7, 2017 at around 9:38 PM, fire quickly spread through Gates 1 and 10 of Barangay 20 Zone 2, District 1 in Parola Compound. The blaze displaced an initial estimate of 3,000 families or approximately 18,000 individuals. Though the cause of the blaze is still unknown, it was only two years prior that the other side of Parola Compound, Barangay 275 Zone 25 in District III, Binondo went up in flames for twelve hours, which ate up two hectares of houses corresponding to 55 Million pesos worth of damage. The area is being eyed for the Pasig Rehabilitation Plan and Port Development Plan despite two Presidential Proclamations (2002 and 2004) and one Executive Order handed down during the Arroyo administration that has awarded the area to its current residents. For Pagkakaisa ng Kababaihan Para sa Kalayaan or KAISAKA, a national grassroots women organization, it counts among its members at least one thousand individuals affected by the fire. Thus we are switching on our Oplan Sagip Bayan (Oplan People’s Rescue) in behalf of those affected by the fire. This is in close coordination with CONCERN or Center for Emergency Aid and Rehabilitation, an institution that has more than twenty-seven years of consistent work in the field of disaster-risk and rehabilitation and has assisted more than two million individuals since 1988 including Pinatubo, Milenyo, Yolanda, Ondoy and even Lawin. The affected residents were only able to escape the blaze with their lives. Devoid of roofs over their heads some sought to go back to their homes, now blackened stubs, trying to salvage anything serviceable. Some sought shelter in the nearby Iglesia Church Compound or at the Delpan Complex. Their ability to eke out a living, already precarious from the onset is made more so made even more so when disasters like this happen. As of now, adult and child alike have yet to have a warm meal or even a comforting cup of milk or coffee. They already occupy the bottom rungs of society and are in dire need of assistance from various concerned sectors like as clothing including underwear, baby diapers and sanitary napkins; sanitary kits: toothpaste, toothbrush, soaps, shampoo and face towel, food including milk for babies (breast milk or formula milk), potable water, kitchen utensils (including pots and pans) and cooking stoves; flashlight and batteries, medicines, heavy canvass (for make-shift roof/wall) and rope; sleeping materials like mats, pillows and blankets; along with building materials (wood, G.I sheets, nails, cement etc.) including hammer and saw. As we switch on Oplan Sagip Bayan, we are sending out an appeal to all our friends and allies, like you, hoping that we can gather both food and non-food support for the fire victims and able-bodied volunteers, specifically for the one thousand five hundred members who are part of our network of grass roots organizations. Our ability to respond hinges on how fast we can muster the needed support for the victims. Help us help the Parola fire victims now. Please see the attached PLEDGE FORM below. You may also bring your donations to our drop center : Manggagawa sa Komunikasyon ng Pilipinas (MKP) Building, 22 Domingo Guevarra St., Brgy Hi-way Hills, Mandaluyong City or call us at these numbers : (02) 717 3262 c/o Josef (0932 8662094)or DJ (0923 8161971). You may also contact local operators at kaisaka.north@gmail,com and at +639182086666. Respectfully, (SGD) Atty. Virginia Suarez-Pinlac Coordinator, Oplan Sagip Bayan Email: [email protected] ----------- P L E D G E F O R M YES, I/We am/are intend to (please check the appropriate item) _____ provide food, medicines and other forms of non-food assistance _____ donate an amount of PhP ______ for the purchase of relief goods and other logisticsneeded for the emergency response (a standard pack of relief goods enough for a family of 6 to consume in 3 days amounts to PhP1250.00 or $ 27.00) _____ share my time and skills on emergency response from ______ until _____________ _____ disseminate your appeal to other organizations and individuals _____ lend my/our equipment which could be used for the Emergency Operations Center ______ vehicle ______ radio transceiver ______ cellular phone ______ fax machine ______ warehouse ______ others (please specify) _______________________________ endorse the OSB to my friends who are also willing to do the same You may come to pick-up my/our support on _____________ (date) at _________ (place). In case, I/We am/are out, please coordinate with Mr./Ms._____________ Name: ____________________________ Signature: ____________________________ Date: ____________________________ ……………………………………………………………… For financial assistance in our cash or checks, please send it to: PESO ACCOUNT Account Number: 6930027498 Account Name: Pagkakaisa ng Kababaihan para sa Kalayaan (KAISA KA) Inc. Bank Address: BDO Mandaluyong Libertad Branch GF Sierra Heights Place, Libertad corner Sierra Madre Sts., Brgy. Highway Hills, Mandaluyong City Philippines 1550 DOLLAR ACCOUNT Account Number:106930026351 Account Name: Pagkakaisa ng Kababaihan para sa Kalayaan (KAISA KA) Inc. Swift Code: BDO-BNORPHMM Routing No.: 021-000089 Bank Address: BDO Mandaluyong Libertad Branch GF Sierra Heights Place, Libertad corner Sierra Madre Sts., Brgy. Highway Hills, Mandaluyong City Philippines 1550 For volunteer work and endorsements, please coordinate with the Secretariat: (02) 717 3262 c/o Jhay or DJ (0923 8161971) @ Oplan Sagip Bayan Volunteer Center – NCR: Manggagawa sa Komunikasyon ng Pilipinas Bldg. #22 Libertad St. Barangay Highway Hills, Mandaluyong City Tel/ Fax: (02) 717 3262 Email: [email protected]
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Press Statement September 13, 2010 Contact Person: Atty Virginia Suarez-Pinlac Iran Should Abolish Death by Stoning KAISA KA joins the millions of voices in the whole world in condemning the death-by- stoning sentence given by an Iranian judge against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. It calls on the Iranian government to abolish this kind of penalty as this is cruel, and, most often victimizes women. Ashtiani, a 43 year-old mother of two, has been languishing in prison since 2005, was sentenced to 99 lashes for adultery in 2006 and was about to die by stoning until a worldwide outcry against the sentence forced the Iranian government to suspend the execution. According to reports, she endured another 99 lashes for the publication of a picture of a woman without veil mistaken for Ashtiani’s. Clearly, for Iran, what Ashtiani has endured is not yet enough because she is a woman. Despite her having been acquitted for the murder of her husband, later government statements justify the ruthless punishment for Ashtiani by saying that she participated in the plot to murder her husband. While KAISA KA is not advocating death penalty, it has to point out its incongruity: the man who was convicted for the said murder did not receive a death sentence. In male-dominated societies like Iran, women suffer disproportionately from this kind of punishment for adultery. More women than men do not get higher education and are more likely to sign confessions to crimes they did not commit. And factoring in other kinds of discrimination against women, they would be more vulnerable to unfair trials, to convictions. While death by stoning is also meted out for other grave crimes, KAISA KA believes that this kind of punishment especially for adultery in Iran is a remnant of an archaic patriarchal culture that controlled women’s sexuality but condoned men’s philandering and even allowed men to have many wives and concubines. This should stop in a modern and humane society. KAISA KA calls for the abolition of death-by-stoning. We also call for the elimination of other forms of death penalty or flogging or imprisonment for those convicted of adultery. No more Soraya Manutchehris! Save about 50 more women lined-up for stoning! Free Sakineh Mahammadi Ashtiani now! Kaisa Ka's Web PageFor Kaisa Ka updates and campaigns, please check Kaisa Ka at http://kaisaka.org/index.php |
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