Some of us can travel any time or are lucky enough to live close to our families. Some have also found where they belong and stay together. But certainly a lot of us aren't, so many haven’t. An artist - and a song - would like to help change that.

Diana Dayao founded Manila Street Love, the country's first mobile outreach and love campaign group. Last September, MSL took on a mission to help reunite people living apart for so long. Reasons such as lack of funds to travel, conflicts, sickness, hectic work schedule, and a combination have kept families and loved ones apart.

A working single dad living out of town but can’t come home to his family due to lack of pamasahe. A sick mom who's confined in a state hospital hasn't seen her infant in the province for months. An ailing lolo who's been waiting for his prodigal son to return and tell him he loves him anyway. These aren’t just movie themes, these are real sad happenings around us that we could help change, even for a day.

"Through Project Darating,'' we wish to make surprise reunions happen this month until October. We are blessed to have beautifully pulled off our first one last Sept. 21 for Julie Anne, a mother with stage 4 cancer staying at Bahay Aruga. We flew her family from Dumaguete, and witnessing that melted the heart of every person in that room. We had that surprise happen at Tesoro's in Intramuros," says Diana, a recording artist and songwriter for other popular artists.

The campaign aims to spotlight our life's most awaited happenings, aka our "Darating's "Opportunities, meetings, and twists we are waiting for may be just around the corner.

"The project is all about hope, the spark of love in reunions, and the magic in homecomings. Hope and the prospect of finally getting there, or receiving it, keeps us going. That's what's keeping us fighting in life," says Diana.

Aligned with this vision are the Intramuros Administration, the Department of Tourism, the social digital app Kumu, and Bahay Aruga - a halfway home for pediatric cancer patients, who are the major partners of this project. Some individual supporters of MSL also pitched in to realize the first reunion.

"Darating" is actually a song written about a broken heart and how all shall come at the right time - the answers, the realizations, the big break, the right person. "But I'd like the song to speak a universal message. That's how we decided to have Manila Street Love involved. Showing how people realize their dreams is great - helping them realize it is even better."

Watch Project Darating reunion videos on www.manilastreetlove.com and their social media pages, along with its official music video.

Meanwhile, you may reach them at [email protected] and visit www.manilastreetlove.com if you'd like to sponsor one of the cases. To know more about Diana D., visit www.dianadayao.com.