Remember when our Cordilleran friends have initiated TCC to call for help for our brothers in the SAF service who have heroically fallen in the hands of the heartless and merciless barbaric extremist terrorist rebels, MILF and BIFF, in Mindanao?
This article is to update our cordilleran brothers and sisters. Just few days after the barbaric massacre of our servicemen brothers, we were suggested to create a solicitation drive and finally agreed and published a link entitled Tribute To Our Fallen Heroes: SAF-CORDILLERA. From day 1 of its posting until the writing of this survey, the unexpected course of events were as follows:
1. According to our website’s statistics, almost 9,000 Facebook users have shared the link and 7 tweets by Twitter users.
2. Following our posting, similar donation drives from different colorum as well as respected individuals and groups have sprouted in the social media including the donation drive by our very own government thru the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) whirlwind-like initiative of opening a bank account for the purpose of solicitation.
3. The Top 6 readers and sharers of our link were based in Canada, Philippines, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and United States. Surprisingly, sharers and readers from United Kingdom where our staff are geographically concentrated came only 7th followed by Singapore, Israel, and Libya.
4. Within the 3 week period that the link has been posted, only one kindhearted person has acted on the call. Our TCC project initiator who have called us to start this project has also given his pledge. The following image is a screenshot of the in-flow activities in our charity’s bank account showing the donation:
With the poor responce to our solicitation drive, there is obviously a difficulty for us to meet our initial objectives in accumulating a fund to be distibuted to the families of our fallen heroes as well as the planned tribute concert. Some TCC trustees have suggested that this very small amount accumulated will be coursed thru to the solicitation drive of a well-known cordilleran businessman/ lawyer and his group to have a unified solicitation. It is also suggested that this small fund be augmented by some TCC trustees to continue organising the tribute concert. Although the planned tribute concert is to be organised in memory of our fallen heroes, the proceeds will be for TCC beneficiaries who are mostly on long-term medications due to their chronic life-threatening illness. This idea is due to the fact that the families of our fallen heroes are expected to receive compensations from the government as well as from private donors. The planned tribute concert will be entitled “CONCERT FOR LIFE 13: A Tribute Concert To Our Cordilleran SAF 13 Heroes, For The Benefit Of Our Sick Brethren.” In this way, our remembrance to our fallen heroes thru this concert will benefit numbers of beneficiaries. For a background, our beneficiaries, their families relatives and friends will be selling tickets of the concert. Each beneficiary keeps whatever they have sold so they can use it directly for their medical needs. As usual, this will be a one-way project of TCC. It means that the funding of the concert will not be taken back from the sales of our beneficiaries. This method, has been tested by TCC to be effective and efficient rather than distributing our small cash funds to the beneficiaries as dole or alms. May we then take this opportunity to take survey on what is the best thing to do. Please take time to respond to the following survey. This will help a lot in making our decision regarding the small donation and the additional pledges from our TCC trustees, staff, founder and volunteers who are supporting our initiatives:
To anyone who would still wish to donate, donations are still accepted at our United Kingdom charity bank account. Details are as follows:
Bank: HSBC
Account Name: THE CORDILLERA CONNECTION
Account Number: 71608193
Sort Code: 40-02-01
International Bank Account Number (IBAN): GB12MIDL40020171608193 Please use
REFERENCE: SAF-CORDI
THE CORDILLERA CONNECTION 
we will make it clear that we are honoring the Fallen 44 through songs but that the proceeds of tickets will be for the beneficiaries wo are also FALLING OUT (dying)…
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Yes Sir Greg. A double heroism of our heroes.. And a coincidence, it will be our 13th Concert for Life for our 13 heroes.
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Yes, that is true. But it seems they are all 14? Wait I will check.
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I think there is another bank account opened solely for the victims’ families under the group of Mr. Bangsoy. So having another account and ask for the cordis to help would be confusing. Wouldn’t it?
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That’s correct Chaulles, that has been mentioned in the article. TCC’s solicitation drive actually came first before the account you mentioned has been opened. But this is the purpose of the survey, to know from the public where shall we put the donation given by our concerned donor.
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Please do not use the name, or the cause of our fallen brothers for other things. You can make your own concert for a cause, for the sick, but don’t use the fallen 13. I’m a full blooded, Igorot, a full blooded SAF trooper, and for me this is not good. You can have a concert for a cause, for the sick, but never use our brothers. That is not a double heroism, that is a misuse. Respect us, we are still mourning.
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Thank you for that comment Sir Ford. However, kindly be informed that we don’t use the the fallen 13. We wanted to honor them thru the concert we have been organising. History shows that we have been organising successful concerts for our ill brethren so there is no need for us to use such. As we have mentioned, we don’t get benefit from any of this concerts so we are confident to say we are not using such. Concerts are regularly organised for our beneficiaries and this will be the 13th concert, a coincidental number. Our Concert for life 12 was held on 09th January. This survey is for us to know where to put the donation that has been given.
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I suggest we stick in the sole purpose of the solicitation. Which is for the saf 44 or otherwise we can pass it to atty. Bangsoy’s account.
We can always do other solicitation to finance concerts for a causes to any other beneficiaries outside saf 44.
Many thanks.
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thanks for that clarification, however, the title of your concert alone “CONCERT FOR LIFE 13: A Tribute Concert To Our Cordilleran SAF 13 Heroes, For The Benefit Of Our Sick Brethren”,,, its clear po sa title ng concert niyo that the 13 (dapat 14) that they are used as a tag line for your concert,, and about the money kung san mapupunta, it is also clear na you were soliciting for the 13 SAF heroes, and dahil maliit lang is you intend to use it for other purposes,,,, kindly correct me if I’m wrong po.. otherwise, I’ll stand by my first comment… in as much as possible, ibigay natin kung san dapat mapunta, ganu man kaliit yan.. thanks much for your concern for us. God bless us all!
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We will wait for other responses for this survey and the trustees will deliberate on it. One of the donors, the one who actually asked TCC to organise this solicitation has suggested us to proceed with the concert to benefit more people. However, trustees will vote on this matter for a final delibration as they might also donate as part of their commitment to TCC’s objectives. Thank you.
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