CASJ to hold benefit concert for Leyte mudslide victims

CASJ to hold benefit concert for Leyte mudslide victims

TORONTO–A benefit concert to raise funds for mudslide victims of Ginsaugon, St. Bernard, Southern Leyte, Philippines will be held in Toronto. Singers and concert performers from the youth sector and community organizations and individual artists are urged to participate by contacting the Community Alliance for Social Justice (CASJ).

Date of the concert and venue will be announced soon.

CASJ Chairperson Edwin Mercurio said the City of Toronto has been approached to provide the venue for the concert. Singers and performers, The Philippine Heritage Band (PHB), The Philippine Independence Day Council (PIDC), Kababayan Community Centre, Philippine Barangay Association of Toronto, Asociacion Negrense, SIKLAB (Association of OFWs), Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada (UKPC), Justice for Jeffrey Coalition, Anakbayan Ontario and various artists and performers have signified their willingness to join the benefit concert.

Proceeds of the concert will be coursed through the Citizens Disaster Response Centre (CDRC), a non-profit humanitarian and non-governmental organization recognized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and has been helping victims of man-made and natural calamities in the Philippines for the past 22 years.

Financial donations for the mudslide victims will be coursed by CASJ through the Kababayan Community Centre. Tax receipts will be issued for donations of $20 or more by Kababayan Community Centre.

CASJ is an alliance of 27 community organizations working to improve the conditions of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) especially the live-in caregivers under the LCP program, for the accreditation of Filipino-trained professionals and for community safety and policing.

For information please contact Edwin Mercurio at 416-709-7884 or Hermie Garcia (Philippine Reporter) at 416-461-8694 or 416-500-8694.