Gabriela party-list Rep. Emmi De Jesus said Thursday they joined the BALSA multisectoral disaster aid caravan that left
The lawmaker heads the Lingap Gabriela team, composed of 30 urban poor leaders and women health care workers who toiled the past few nights in bundling up 1,500 "Mother and Child Relief Packs" containing underwears, sanitary napkins and VAW educational fliers, aside from over 2,000 packs with standard relief items.
The fliers, written in Tagalog and Waray languages, provided instructions for women to defend themselves from gender violence in situations where they are vulnerable.
De Jesus chose to take the long road trip instead of traveling by air because, she said, she wanted to see up close how Yolanda affected women and children in other provinces and cities also hit to a lesser extent by Yolanda.
She explained that she wanted to zero in on the reported incidences of violence against women and children and the rising risks to human trafficking especially in the totally devastated areas of Samar and
"The Gabriela center for women's services is not only wrecked. My staff went to Tacloban and surrounding towns last week and reported they lost their hospitals, clinics, and schools, which makes women so vulnerable and all the more without access to health services," De Jesus pointed out.
The caravan will meet up with many aid-loaded trucks belonging to Tulong Migrante, Sagip Kanayunan, and Tulong Kabataan in the Bicol region and cross the strait together into
The southern counterpart will sail from
To help the public follow their progress, the organizers put up the Twitter hashtag #TabangEV where they post pictures and stories of updates, as well as action bulletins for donors and volunteers.
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This is Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) front group activity. The Gabriela Women's Party (GWP) is a CPP political front. Emmi De Jesus is a GWP congress woman and a long time GABRIELA (General Assembly Binding Women for Reform, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action) sectoral front group activist. The GWP is a political spinoff from the sectoral front.
ReplyDeleteBALSA is a CPP front that was established to exploit opportunities to radicalize/politicized Filipinos in the wake of Typhoon Sendong (Pablo).
Tulong Migrante, Sagip Kanayunan, and Tulong Kabataan are suspected CPP front organizations.