Idyllwild Arts Academy Fashion Design majors use their creativity to bring extra meaning to their work and help others in need for their fall fashion show on December 6th in Idyllwild California.
PRLog - Nov. 21, 2013 - OTHER, Calif. -- Help for Philippines from Idyllwild Arts Fashion Show
Disaster-relief work in the Philippines will get some generous help from Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Winter Fashion Show on December 6.
The audience for this display of creative work by the school’s Fashion Design students will have a chance to donate to highly respected aid organizations, on behalf of people whose lives have been turned upside-down by one of the most powerful storms ever recorded.
The death and destruction that Super Typhoon Haiyan left behind in early November have special meaning for the Idyllwild community because of Alex Gandionco, a 2013 graduate of the Arts Academy. Alex lives in New Zealand, but she is of Filipino descent and she has close relatives and family friends in the Philippines.
Many of them live in Ormoc, sixty-five miles west of the capital of Leyte Province, Tacloban. After Haiyan killed more than ten thousand Filipinos, international relief efforts focused on Tacloban. But the people of the province’s other devastated cities have also faced growing danger as time passes.
The nearly two hundred thousand residents of Ormoc were terrorized by surges of thirteen feet in Ormoc Bay. Destruction or damage to over ninety percent of the city’s structures has left citizens exposed to the elements as they search desperately for food.
Some of the damaged buildings are hospitals. This means that, as monsoon season brings more storms to the Philippines over the next several weeks, many people who contract pneumonia or diarrhea in their rain-soaked dwellings may get no medical treatment.
One friend of Alex Gandionco’s family was taking care of her two small grandchildren when Haiyan struck. Unable to take shelter in Ormoc Maternity and Children's Hospital, which was too severely damaged by the storm, they found refuge in a nearby church. Before they received their first package of relief goods, twelve days had already passed.
Stories like this have been told many thousands of times in the last few weeks. People who attend the Idyllwild Arts Academy Winter Fashion Show, on December 6, can give some of those stories a happy ending.
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