Pinoy 501st Relief Operations: Clean-Up pushing through on Sunday, 4 October

Since Typhoon Pepeng seems to have left Metro Manila with relatively little damage, cleanup operations in Provident Village will proceed tomorrow!
 
Assembly: 9:00 AM
When: Sunday, October 4
Where: Gate of Provident Village, in front of Tammy's Bake Shop, first corner on the right.
 
Provident Village is on A. Bonifacio Ave. in Marikina.
 
The Plan:
We'll be there before 9, so there's time to gather the volunteers and brief them.
 
Since the AFP and MMDA are working on the main road, we will deploy our teams to the side streets, and there are many, many side streets in Provident.
 
The mud can be shoveled into sacks (as in sacks of rice) to make sandbags, which can be piled to form dikes and keep more mud and water from blocking the drains.
 
We will also clear debris to make the roads passable. We'll collect these in buckets and basins, and bring them to the main road so the AFP crews can collect them in their trucks.
 
What to bring:

• shovels and spades
• garbage bags
• rubber boots
• face mask - The stench is getting really bad there.
• shower cap - To protect your hair, so you don't have to wash the mud out!
• ponchos - So your clothes don't get too wet or muddy
• extra clothes - You WILL get dirty!
• rubber gloves - This is more to avoid superficial wounds, which can easily get infected given the debris.
• lots of alcohol
• drinking water - so you don't get dehydrated!
• sacks - These can be bought at your local palengke, but please choose the thicker ones, not the thin ones, so they don't tear easily.
• straw or rope - for tying and securing the sacks
• tongs - for picking up stuff from the mud

 
 
We will bring some items, but please bring your own.
 
Please spread the word, and pray that our efforts will be productive.
 
Dear Lord, thank you for this opportunity to help. See you all tomorrow!