came the call to action as cities awaken from the nightmare that was their reality…Ondoy had ravaged the Philippine metropolis and brought it under water.

But this cry displays the courage to continue on when ever last sinew screams in pain and weariness…As Rudyard Kipling reminds us…that which becomes a blueprint for Human Courage…

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

So thus came the call …echoed across the whole land… by all who witness…

Rise Up!!!

We can meet this Challenge

nay … we will meet this Challenge

face to face

Not alone –

but together as One!