FMA Lifeline - February 2021

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JULY to AUGUST 2020 Relief Operations funded by ACTS – Singapore (A Call to Share)

Relief Operations Foundation

• 1,400 food packs were given to 1,400 families in Metro Manila, Laguna, Pampanga, Mindoro, Palawan, Negros Occidental, and Cebu. Each food pack contains 5 kilos of rice and some canned goods and noodles.

• A total of 2,800 meal packs were cooked and distributed to frontliners. These food packs come along with fruit juices, rice, vitamins, school supplies, and pre-loved clothes for our frontliners & CPC Communities in Quezon City, Taguig City, and Marikina City.

SEPTEMBER to NOVEMBER 2020 Relief Operations funded by Don Bosco Mondo - Germany • 25 kilos of rice were given to each of the 1,960 families in Metro Manila, Laguna, Pampanga, Mindoro, Palawan, Negros Occidental, and Cebu. • 855 hygiene kits were given to 855 families in Metro Manila, Laguna, Pampanga, Mindoro, Palawan, Negros Occidental, and Cebu. Each hygiene kit contains 10 washable cloth face masks, 10 face shields, 8 bath soap bars, and 2 alcohol bottles. • 6,030 meal and snack packs were given to 1,650 medical frontliners in Metro Manila, Laguna, Pampanga, Mindoro, Negros Occidental, and Cebu.

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Relief Operations by the VIDES Volunteers – Philippines • 900 food packs were given to 900 families in Cavite, Quezon City, and Manila. Each family received a total of 50 kilos of rice, one pack of milk, one spaghetti party pack, 2 kilos of pork meat, and several pieces of canned goods and toiletries. The relief goods were gradually distributed to the families from April to December 2020. By Sr. Debbie Ponsaran, FMA

Relief Operations for Typhoon and Flood Victims and canned goods for people knocking at the door for food. The Philippines had five typhoons from the last week of October until mid-November in the year 2020. They left trails of destruction and affected more than two million people in eight regions, displacing hundreds of thousands and killing more than a hundred persons. Don Bosco School (Manila) served as an evacuation site to seven families when their houses submerged in floodwater. The Sisters provided the meals and sleeping mats. Just beside the school is our Provincial House, where the Sisters also prepared packs of rice

The FMA educating community of Don Bosco School (Manila) collected goods like rice, canned food, bottled water, face masks, clothes, blankets, toiletries, and cash donations. They distributed relief goods to the people in Metro Manila and donated cash to areas outside Manila. They reached as far as Rizal Province, Cagayan Valley, Camarines Sur, and Catanduanes. The Caritas in Caceres acknowledged their donation amounting to Php 200,000. On January 5, 2021, they sent P50,000 to Caritas - Virac (Catanduanes) for the

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