A typhoon hit the northern Luzon region
of the Philippines recently, badly affecting one of our projects. Based
on the report just received from Saleng Project in Baguio City, there were
12 CCF families severely affected. Their houses were damaged by the raging
floodwaters and they had to move to evacuation centers.
Unfortunately, one CCF mother died at
the height of the typhoon when the family's house was destroyed and she
was swiftly carried away by floodwaters. Her 13-year old son has been sponsored
since 1993. CCF has provided burial assistance to the family. Other families
suffered damage to their crops, farm animals and properties. To help these
families, CCF has provided immediate cash assistance for the school needs
of the children like uniforms, notebooks and other school supplies to replace
those, which were washed out by the flood.
Please keep these families and their
children in your thoughts and prayers, as they try to recover from this
damaging typhoon. Any contribution you care to make will go toward our
ChildAlert Emergency Fund to help children and their families in similar
emergency
situations.