Disaster

Wednesday 22nd of February 2012

QUEZON CITY, Feb. 22 (PIA) -- The Philippine Consulate General in Sydney reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that the Philippine Community Council (PCC) of New South Wales has presented a check worth A$5,764 (PhP260,508) to Consul General Anne Jalando-on Louis on February 17 as donation for the victims of tropical storm Sendong (Washi), according to a release by the DFA.

By Elaine O. Ratunil and Jerome R. Soldevilla

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 20 -- Energy firm STEAG State Power Inc. handed-over some 500 pieces of solar-powered emergency rechargeable lamps to the residents of Xavier EcoVille in Lumbia Cagayan de Oro City.

Present during the turn-over program were Steag officials led by Dr. Carsten Evers and Ghaye Alegrio, Fr. Eric Velandria of Xavier University, and Bam Aquino of Hapinoy.

Habitat Distributes Tools And Kits To Clean Up And Repair Homes; 6,000 Homes To Be Built By July

BANGKOK, 17 February 2012: When Tropical Storm Washi struck the Philippines on 17 December 2011, Habitat for Humanity Philippines responded immediately.

“Tropical storms and typhoons are commonplace in the Philippines, but Washi was a surprise because it struck northern Mindanao, an area unaccustomed to tropical storms and heavy rain”, said Charlie Ayco, CEO of HFH Philippines.

By Rutchie C. Aguhob

OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, Feb. 17 (PIA) -- A total of P84.11 million in cost of assistance to the typhoon Sendong victims in Northern Mindanao have been noted by the Food and Non-Food Items (F/NFI) Cluster of the Post Sendong Operations Center, Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC), Region 10, as of Feb. 14.

By Lorry V. Gabule

ILIGAN CITY, Lanao del Norte, Feb 19 (PIA) -- Weeks after the tropical storm Sendong tragedy on December 17, 2011 that heavily damaged the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro in Northern Mindanao, representatives of Dompet Dhuafa, a non-profit agency from Jakarta, Indonesia made an ocular inspection of several schools in this city.

The Dompet Dhuafa chose Cabili Village Elementary School as recipient of the two-classroom temporary school building project it meant to donate.

MINDANAO, Philippines: They’ve seen their homes destroyed, their possessions drenched and their lives turned upside down, but for the victims of Typhoon Sendong, which wreaked havoc on the island of Mindanao, Philippines, on December 16, there’s no looking back. The well-storied horrors of the storm and floods, which forced 430,500 people from their homes, won’t soon be forgotten, but there are mouths to feed and lives to rebuild.

MINDANAO, Philippines -- Nearly two months after Typhoon Sendong devastated his wooden house on a river bank and took away his job in Cagayan de Oro, Jimmy Olarita -- a father of three-- still lives in a temporary shelter in an elementary school, taking care of his pregnant wife, three children and his ailing mother.

Olarita, 32, is among 62 families living in tents supplied by Plan and Irish Aid, pitched on the school playground, just days after the deadly storm struck his village and other cities in Mindanao on December 16.

Gina Ayop, 28, lives in a tent city on the outskirts of Cagayan de Oro with her husband and four children, including three-year-old Mark Angelo. The family lost their home in Tibasak, Macasandig during the flash floods that followed Tropical Storm Sendong last December. It was the worst storm to hit northern Mindanao since 1916, dropping the equivalent of one month's rainfall in just one day, and the family were lucky to escape with their lives.