"20 TON Virtual Rice Drive"
Over ...$6,500 Raised

Dear Friends,  

As many of you know the Philippines was hit by some severe typhoons in September that did a lot of damage to the rice crops.  Brother Rodrigo Valbuena (assistant director) took a trip up to the northern part of Luzon (main island) last week and was able to see the devastation.

In his email to me he wrote these words:

“Almost all of the farmer’s crops have been destroyed.  We saw the farmland devastated by the two typhoons that passed.  We need to be ready for price increases and a shortage of rice supplies.”

“20 Ton Virtual Rice Drive”

We want to plan ahead to beat the price increases and shortages so we are having a “20 Ton Virtual Rice Drive.”  What is a “20 Ton Virtual Rice Drive”?

What we do is set up an online store on the subicbaykids.org web site so anyone can go online and purchase rice.  The buyer can choose to purchase anything from a 50 kilo bag of rice to a ton of rice.  Once we get enough funds to purchase the 20 tons (400 Bags) at a discounted price we will send the funds over and they will make the purchase there rather than collecting food here and trying to ship it over.  (The children’s home consumes about 18 tons of rice a year.)