TO WHOME IT MAY CONCERN FOR LIFE by Eric V. Encina Sunday, February 22, 2009 11:40 AM

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN FOR LIFE, FAMILY AND JUSTICE:



Dear Sir & Madam/Brothers & Sisters/Friends For Life:



Money is like muck, not good except it be spread to save innocent lives and reach out the poor!



My family, fellow pro-life member-families, and many of our poor and impoverished neighbors and our little ones are becoming shackled to the point of desperation in our constant struggles for survival under the present anti-life/family/justice financial-economic system and policies in the region, in the Philippines. We continue the mission and working for life and change for the protection of human life. We continue to resist any bill that will legalize abortion in the country.

However, eventually, we are always literally running out of money for life, in spite of our austerity measures and efforts to make the money you send, once in a while, last for our mission and survival needs while the prices of basic needs for survival, the services and the bills are increasing while the money needed is losing its value under the crazy finance.

We, most of our members, cannot find work as job is not available in the region to sustain or augment our survival needs, at this present dreadful financial economic crisis to support ourselves due to the ongoing economic downturn--which is getting deadly than ever. We are aware that this crisis is just a sort of inside job of those greedy ones.


Most poor Filipino families under pressure do not know anymore about the way how they are going to feed themselves and their innocent children. Saving and keeping the children under tremendous financial pressures is very emotionally, spiritually and morally disturbing to most families, couples, mothers, fathers. EVERY TIME THERE IS A CRISIS, IT IS THE CHILDREN WHO ARE ALWAYS AT GREATER RISK. Abortion continues to happen alas when women are under pressure and no one to turn to for help.


It is lamenting indeed that money in the Philippines is only available for perpetual interest payments to international high finance capitalism that is hostile to human life and to the poor.

Money is also available for ARTIFICIAL POPULATION CONTROL PROGRAM-that actually does not help to advance the betterment of humanity but in fact continues to kill innocent unborn children.

In the monthly basis, our electricity and water supplies, the bills increasing monthly due to the imposition of additional charges arising from the debt of the companies and therefore are always on the verge of being turned off. Most poor families are perplexed what to do, and in despair, and most have no feasible plan available to move ahead in their lives under the present anti-life system.



Understandably, the psychological stress, emotional, moral dilemma and spiritual crisis go side by side, and, in some cases, malnourishment have made some of the poor Filipino families and children susceptible to a number of the illnesses that are sweeping through our region: towns and villages. Meanwhile, we are afraid for the children under our care and our elderly peoples without any help from the government. The money we receive from you is not enough to help those we intend to help.

We are, also, afraid for ourselves as the future looks bleaker than ever in all regards under life-killing financial-economic system and culture of death.



We are trying to grow food like vegetables to ameliorate or augment our needs , but it is a pitifully insufficient amount and the timing of the financial recession, which is almost in the state of depression, has, inconveniently, not coincided with the harvest season, anyway. And while there are so many needy to keep them alive.

So we are, most of the poor family-members are tormented, and at an utter loss about what to do next without continued monthly life-saving allowance in 2009.

We honestly and urgently need US$150 monthly if possible. If not, $100 is most welcome. This dollar figure can continue to save innocent lives.



As a Director of the Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice, there are times I cannot sleep for worries when I am troubled by the needs of other poor families, women and children in need of help and of course of our bills to pay and our day-to-day essential life-saving expenses. Poor families and children are either in the cliff of hunger or actually hungry. Some families I know are also afraid to lose their rented homes being unable to pay their rents because of loss of jobs or being laid-off. Like us, our rented old and worn out house is already collapsing to the ground. Another major problem is the lack the means to get proper health-care. So what should we do now?



If possible, please advise me on behalf of my family and poor Filipino member-families for life as to where we might find immediate emergency pro-life/family relief and ideas IN ADDITION TO MONTHLY DONATION to us, about pro-life development projects of a long term strategy to address our grave dilemma—with our major objective to save and protect the our lives and the lives of the innocents. Whether it concerns food, medicine, access to medical care, funds to save lives, to help the feed the innocent unborn children, to help hungry poor families, to help the sick and the needy, to sustain our operation and mission and to maintain our water and electricity supply, the means to keep our pro-life center, and have any home-based projects for the women and mothers of any sort is immaterial. Indeed, any sort of instruction, advice, suggestion, proposal with pro-life policies about what to do, even if vague or incomplete, is better than none at all.



If we have to move -- fine. We will move. If the poor families here have to work practically around the clock at some onerous type of labor -- so be it just to survive. But the problem is: no work is available. We are thinking to create our own home-based pro-life survival projects.



Although almost hopeless, we try to refuse that image. We, pro-lifers, Christians, must be the agents faith, hope and charity, of patience, courage and strength in rough and in troubled times. We refuse to consider that the only option available is to watch the children, the poor mothers, my elderly relatives and friends slowly die from privation, sickness, hunger and starvation because of the absence of necessities of life arising from the absence or acute lack of money. This sort of eventuality is absolutely unacceptable indeed.



As an alternative to life and justice , we need both short term and long term pro-life-based solutions for our dire situation and find way to drastic change. Pro-life projects and solutions can also prevent more abortion cases in the villages, in the region.

In this province and to most neighboring provinces, I have found out that during my mission works, in fact, some people around us have less than ten dollars in Philippine Peso value in their bank accounts.THAT IS WHY THEY CANNOT EVEN GIVE ANY DONATION TO MY PRO-LIFE WORKS. In short, they are also needy. Some rural banks are in bank-run or bankrupt. Others have pitifully lost their bank accounts in entirety and are literally penniless. Thanks for your pro-life help, I still maintain our pro-life mission account from $10 to $5 in Philippines peso value monthly minimum deposit.



So if anyone through your intermediary, can further help us in any way or have ideas within pro-life principles about ways that we should proceed out of our difficulties, please let me know as soon as possible. Time is both indeed running out and burning out, and we are, understandably, concerned about the present operation and survival in 2009 for the sake of human life.



Furthermore, we do not ask for financial help without pro-life principles. We continue to refuse to ask for help to others that will compromise pro-life messages, vision, philosophy, policies and above all, pro-life truths.

We appeal for help for noble mission to continue life-saving while at the same time to survive ourselves. Sending us pro-life help monthly $150 or $100 if possible really saves us. Some people do not like to help because they don’t like pro-life principles and mission or they don’t help because they have misgivings to the poor, like the belief that the poor remain in poverty because the poor are lazy.

However, this is a common misconception that people who receive aid like it and are lazy. Aid should be changed. Everyone under Heaven, has the right to obtain the basis necessities of life according to justice and charity. But distribution of wealth is only possible if there will be new system based on life. And I can also guarantee that this is not true and people who entertain that opinion ought to realize that this view is commonly used to further marginalize and dehumanize disadvantaged people especially targeting the innocent unborn children.

AS CHRISTIANS AND HUMANS, WE HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITIES BEFORE OUR ALMIGHTY CREATOR TO HELP THE POOR AND THE NEEDY and save the innocents. Moreover, anyone who needs to be convinced on this point need merely to imagine himself/herself facing such a terrible situation and he/she will quickly see that practically no one wants to be on the dole.

Dole-out or beggary will end if there will be a new system of economy based on respect to life will provide economic security to every citizen: to every father, mother and child.

To kill the unborn children because there is no money to sustain life, is a nightmare, is a terrible injustice against the innocents.



Regardless, my members and I have begun to realize that we have to request monthly pro-life or life-saving assistance of $150 or $100 regardless that it makes us feel terrible about ourselves. In other words, we have reached a perilous, life-threatening juncture in our circumstances and do not know about what else to do other than to seek solutions outside of the Philippines and from any available source however, maintaining within pro-life principles.



So we are obliged to humbly request recommendations from strangers in the Western world and will take their counsel to heart. Anyone forced to endure our pitiful conditions would undertake the same action. After all, what other course is there to pursue?

In addition, we are not envious of others who have ample food banks and homeless shelters available in the US or in the UK or in EU.



We are happy for them. We are happy that peoples in foreign lands are not suffering so much like us. However, their good fortune (and it is a good fortune) makes our own destitution seem all the more acute and reminds that we, urgently, MUST find the means to overcome it as soon as possible especially to feed and save the children under our care.

At the same time, numerous religious and other charities in the Philippines are not longer operating because of the absence funds. (The global slump has especially impacted donations.) So the local charities left in the wake of their closures are overwhelmed since help for many thousands of poor peoples is being requested across the country way beyond the capacity to handle them all. This same state of affairs reportedly is being faced in the Philippine capital and practically everywhere else throughout the Philippines.



It is therefore lamenting that in this world in plenty created by God – Who is the Owner of all wealth of the Universe, THE AUTHOR OF LIFE, and made to be plenty by human progress but alas, there is no authentic justice and charity, no love, no solidarity, no compassion for LIFE, for the innocents, no care culture, but all in greed, avarice, selfishness, elimination, persecution and slavery of the poor and the innocents , and destruction of human life.



Let us see the judgment of time and of history and above all, the Judgment of God that is coming to humanity!



At the end of our lives, we will be judged by love and how much we saved the innocents from the bloody hands!



In closing, thank you for your time taken to read this appeal for life, family and justice.



It is indeed appreciated more than ever, and I look forward to hearing back from you and anyone through your intermediary who has thoughts about the pro-life actions that we can take to move forward out of our severe and dangerous troubles under the life-killing system we find ourselves in the region, in the Philippines.

Remain us united in our prayers and holy works for the defence and protection of human life!



Eric V. Encina
Filipino Pro-life/Family/Justice Activist
Activism Center For Life, Family & Justice
c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite,
Km2. Brgy. Lawa-n, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz Province,
Philippines
eric_encina@yahoo.com
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