Run-for-a-cause for ailing rescuer slated

Friday, July 22, 2011

THE shoe is on the other foot, making this coming Sunday morning's three-bracket run-for-a-cause doubly significant, a race for the health of one who has led in racing against time to save lives during calamities.

That's why volunteers of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation Council (CDRRMC) will join running buffs in answering the starting gun for the 3K, 5K and 10K at 6 a.m. at the Lake Drive of the Burnham Park where the run will also end.

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It's for Engr. Archiemor Ellamil, officer-in-charge of the CDRRMC, formerly the City Disaster Coordinating Council, who has been in and out of the hospital since last April due to liver ailment.

"Needless to say, the family is now in desperate situation seeking financial help in order to shoulder his medication and hospital expenses," noted city administrator in an appeal for public support to the run and the cause for it.

Among the first to respond were Eurotel Hotel, which provided the promotional streamers and volunteer rescuer Benjie Cardenas whose Janred purified water outlet will supply the watering stations along the route.

That's why kids of San Vicente Elementary School were back at the Busol Watershed this weekend under the city's Eco-walk environmental learning program, hoping to draw support to the fund drive through sponsorship of the trees they're planting.

Individuals and groups may sponsor runners at P150 per participant, according to race coordinator Julius Santos who hatched the run-for-a-cause with other rescue volunteers.

"Really, the shoe is on the other foot, giving us more reason to help Archie's family in its time of need," Santos said