Committed to selfless service, Kuya Daniel Razon made time to help victims of Typhoon Ketsana just a few hours before the launching of his latest art exhibit for a cause.

After the onslaught of the typhoon, Kuya Daniel’s action team (the Kilos ni Kuya) stormed to San Mateo, Rizal; Sta. Maria, Bulacan; Quezon City; and West Bank Area, Marikina to provide food, clothes, blankets and other goods to help alleviate the condition of the people in the affected areas. Residents braved the heavy flash floods and strong winds leaving their houses and other properties submerged in water in order to save their lives.

Concerned of the health status of the residents, Kuya Daniel ordered the mobile clinic of UNTV 37 to conduct free medical checkups for the typhoon victims in the said areas. The medical team also provided vitamins and injectables against viruses to prevent any outbreak of disease in rehabilitation centers where the residents were relocated.

However, due to the large number of people needing help, Kuya Daniel had this to say in his speech on the opening of Brush and Shutter: Photography and Painting Exhibit:

“We have started our relief and rescue operations as well as medical missions and we will need a lot of relief goods as well as medicines, vaccines and other injectables.”

Kuya Daniel’s art exhibit was put up to fund the soon to rise La Verdad Christian College, which offers free college education to its poor but deserving scholars. But he stressed in his speech that proceeds of the exhibit will also go to other good things, especially in these times of adversity.

“Proceeds of this project will also go to a lot of good things. And soon, we’ll be able to launch another, maybe, bigger one and in a bigger venue and for the benefit of other people who are in dire need, especially now that we are facing a calamity imbued in Quezon City, in Rizal, in Cavite.”

Ketsana has damaged a total of P3.6 billion worth of infrastructure and P6.7 billion in agriculture, according to the National Disaster Coordinating Council and Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro.

While the action team of Kuya Daniel continuously conducts relief operations and medical missions to typhoon victims, the daily public service programs of the Good Morning Kuya! host is nonstop in providing various services such as free medical checkups, free bus and train rides, free legal consultations, and free overnight stay in the Kamanggagawa Foundation Transient Home, among others. (Published on October 17, 2009)

Written by Chris Anne Gonzales