Super Typhoon Haiyan’s aftermath, the Filipino spirit to rise up again – Bangon Pinoy!
Super Typhoon Haiyan,
locally named Yolanda, the strongest and most powerful recorded storm ever to
make a landfall this year battered Samar, Leyte, Cebu and much of the Visayas
Islands of the Philippines last November 8, 2013. The devastating typhoon rendered thousands of
families homeless and helpless. The once full of life and beautiful towns with
a bubbly community turned into a ghost town due to massive damage and destruction
not only on the infrastructures but to the lives of the people as well.
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An aerial photo of Guiuan, Samar courtesy
of gmanetwork.com
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I am a Filipino and it’s
really heartbreaking for me to see that there’s nothing left out there for my
fellow countrymen who survived - survivors who braved to hold on for their
lives. Homeless, hungry and emotionally upset
people can be seen loitering in the streets and even resorted to looting just
to feed their hungry children and families the day after for relief efforts are
hampered due to infrastructure and communication problems. I can’t help but cry
upon hearing and watching the news of different stories on how they survived. My soul is grieving seeing the dead people and animals everywhere on the
streets. I deeply sympathize for those
who are mourning to the lost of their loved ones whom cannot be even given a
decent burial. You may see photos of before and after Haiyan hit our country here.
Electricity is not yet
restored up to this time of writing, a lot of people are still missing as many
towns have not been reached by relief efforts, thus, hundreds of displaced and
hungry families are still in need of urgent help.
We are very thankful for
the International community who immediately gave and showed support, I may not
be able to enumerate them all but countries and people around the world are mobilizing
to provide aid and donations for the relief, recovery and rehabilitation to
restore areas and families affected by this destructive storm. Maraming
maraming Salamat po!
We all have our own humble way to support. If you would like to extend help, please refer to the following details below.
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| image courtesy of gmanetwork.com |
I never imagined a calamity would break our spirit and this almost did. I wasn't there when it happened but it broke my heart. I can only imagine what the survivors are going through
ReplyDeleteIt's really heartbreaking how the areas affected has crumbled. I know the country will rise again because of our innate resiliency.
ReplyDeleteSeeing fellow countrymen and even people from other nations help the victim of the super typhoon Yolanda touches my heart. I'm also glad that there are restaurants, malls and artists who give their profits as contribution to relief goods.
ReplyDeleteI thought I've seen the worst with Ondoy since that is the closest ever to come in our location but this is horrific. There is so much rebuilding to be done in terms of real lives.
ReplyDeleteyes, rebuilding lives will be tougher this time :(
ReplyDeletehumanity reigns, am very glad that support and aid are pouring in
ReplyDeletealmost everything standing were smashed into pieces :( roofs were torn as if they are biscuits, it was really worst
ReplyDeletehow to start all over again is definitely what the survivors have in mind, the Government must really help them
ReplyDeletelet us help in any way we could... our kababayans really... badly needed us. Yahweh bless.
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ReplyDeleteI am glad that the donations keep on coming and I hope that the Government can start building a defensive method to lessen the tragedy if this case happens again (I hope not)
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