The charity event was organized by the GMA Kapuso Foundation to raise money, relief, and awareness in response to the loss of life and human suffering that resulted from Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy).

After the Rain featured performances by guest musicians, including Pops Fernandez, Kuh Ledesma, Jaya, Kyla, Jay R, and La Diva.

[2] Initial plans for a Christmas benefit concert television special were announced by GMA Network on November 10, 2009, two months in the aftermath of Ondoy.

[4] Entitled After the Rain: A Hopeful Christmas, the two-hour musical documentary featured Regine Velasquez and aired on December 13, 2009; it was described as an "homage to the Filipino spirit that has remained resilient despite the seemingly unending odds".

[5] It featured performances to a live audience of more than 800 typhoon victims, who were treated to a dinner party before the event and later received aid packages.

[5] Various actors and other celebrities made commentaries, such as Dingdong Dantes, Richard Gutierrez, Marian Rivera, Mel Tiangco, and Mike Enriquez.

The final story centers around the rescue of residents from an orphanage, the House of Refuge, which suffered heavy flooding due to levee breach.

These numbers included Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which was mashed with the Wonder Girls's "Nobody", the show tune "Home" from the 1974 Broadway musical The Wiz, and Twila Paris's "The Warrior Is a Child".

was performed with Eva Castillo and Kyla, while Tyler Collins's "Thanks to You" was a duet number with Jay R. Velasquez and La Diva did a rendition of Barry Manilow's "I Made It Through the Rain".