December 17, 2021
To ALL DIOCESAN COUNCILS PRESIDENTS AND NATIONAL LAY LEADERS
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the light of the sudden and unexpected intensification of Typhoon Odette and its massive impact on the towns and cities along its path, calls for immediate disaster response are being made. The Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas is appealing to our member organizations in the NCR and those nearby areas to initiate among their members, friends and relatives an emergency appeal for goods-in-kind which can be brought straight to the Disaster Response Center of the Office of the Vice President, which has launched an organized transportation and distribution plan with the AFP and other responsive government agencies. (Please watch the announcement below)
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1350228692077903
For those in other Dioceses who can also help, please do the same and coordinate with your Diocesan Social Action Centers. They might have similar plans to respond to this.
Let us also pray for the safety and recovery of our countrymen from this disaster and ask the Lord to continue to put peace and joy in their hearts during the Christmas season.
Please, we ask you to exert the effort to respond swiftly to this national emergency.
For the Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas,
(Sgd)Jun Cruz
National President
