No one was willing to be unprepared again. Yolanda taught lessons. So while we waited, we made food kits. The members made 3000 in Legaspi and 3000 in Cebu and Bruce was in charge of getting 3000 here in Manila. He ordered 140 50-kilo bags of rice, cases of corned beef, sardines,and ramen-style noodles.
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The young man carried the sacks on his head.
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| Each sack had 3 kilo rice, 6 packages of noodles, 6 cans of sardines and 4 corned beef, enough for a family for 3 days. |
The rice had to be repackaged into 3 kilo bags. You put in one large scoop and one small scoop, press out all the air and tie a knot. We are working in the office garage, but this is not your normal garage. They wash and buff the floor daily.
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| You get into a rhythm with each person doing one of the steps and it goes pretty quick |
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and we ended up with 3000 sacks. Each sack carried our logo.
We put 1000 sacks right on the Mabuhay Deseret truck leaving 2000 piled in the office garage. Mabuhay is a private medical charity run by Dr. Jackson and his wife who, as a young man, was a missionary here in the Philippines.
We put the food sacks inside the empty rice sacks so we could stack them more easily in the truch.
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