Fashion Show for Guimaras
Hysteria (n: panic, hysterics, frenzy, madness) HERO TV and the senior Advertising Arts class of the University of the East College of Fine Arts recently held “HYSTERIA: Fashion Show for a Cause” at the UE Tan Yan Kee Building parking lot and at the UE Theater, Recto, Manila.The event served as an opportunity for UE CFA students to show their own fashion designs inspired by artists Piet Mondrian and Andy Warhol as well as Japanese street fashion collections. Participants also came dressed in their favorite anim, sentai, and computer games characters in the Cosplay parade.
This annual campus tradition was started last 2000 as part of the university’s foundation day. This year, the event was co-sponsored by HERO TV, the first and only Tagalog-dubbed anim channel in the Philippines and the Home of the New Anim Revolution. HERO TV will celebrate its first anniversary on November 18 at the World Trade Center.
“Hysteria is a unique fashion show with a noble purpose.? The organizers really exerted so much effort in designing the costumes,” HERO TV segment producer Carlo Jan Landrito said.
Guimaras Governor JC Rahman A. Nava has issued a new memorandum order that declared a “No PPE, No Work” policy to ensure the health safety of those involved in the coastal clean up. PPE stands for Personal Protective Equipment which includes a self-contained breathing apparatus, hooded chemical-resistant overalls, chemical resistant gloves, boot covers and face shields, among others.
Kathleen Connolly, Associate Director of the Disaster Resource Network (an Initiative of the World Economic Forum) 
Jay Presaldo of the Canadian Urban Institute, the NGO working side by side with the Guimaras provincial government has told me that they are currently preparing for the rapid assessment of the damage in Guimaras.
Thanks for the food, but we also need soap and toothpaste. Evacuees here and those residing in islands smeared by bunker fuel oil from MT Solar 1 that sank off southern Guimaras on August 11 are thankful for the food and water provided by government institutions, Petron Corp, and donors – but the evacuees said they badly need toothpaste and body and laundry soap. The Red Cross Guimaras Chapter said that even before residents of hard-hit areas in Cabalagnan, Lapaz and Tando were evacuated this week, they have been asking for soap and toothpaste which they cannot afford to buy. Some 400 people or at least 134 families in the shorelines of Cabalagnan and Lapaz here have been evacuated or are staying with relatives.
Melvin Purzuelo of the Save our Seas Movement has called on advertising firms or groups to donate tarpaulins for the clean up as liners of temporary containment areas.
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Cora Chavez of Couples for Christ Madrid (Spain) chapter told me that her group will launch a worldwide? fund-raising campaign to help Guimaras. A memo has been circulated in all branches of the Global Mission Foundation of CFC. They will be donating masks, rubber gloves, rubber booths, clothes, used sacks and groceries. Here are the addresses where you can make money transfers and actual goods.