Volunteer Bicycle Messengers for Disaster Response

As of September 2 2023, the Bike Scouts volunteer bicycle messengers for disaster response has only been able to raise $100 and as a result we are continuing to do the work of community-based resilience and response - including training for Bike Scouts community members across the Philippines at a scale that we can handle without the help of donated funds at this time.

The training we've been able to organize include refresher courses on basic emergency response skills and some technical skills organized and conducted by local Bike Scouts teams in their own areas.

As of this year, Bike Scouts has helped monitor two storms: Typhoon Falcon (category 4) and Typhoon Goring (category 4). We are expecting that this is just the first of the expected 20 severe storms that make landfall in the Philippines every year.

As part of our local resilience efforts, local Bike Scouts teams have been conducting surveys in their own communities for the things that they can help improve in terms of resilience such as additonal supports for houses, portable solar energy needs, and others that can help people in vulenerable areas of their communities do well in the event of a severe storm.

In addition to resilience-related supplies, a Bike Scouts team in Cebu (Visayas region of the Philippines) has also been working to provide school supplies for seleted students in their area as part of their localized resilience survey and community engagement activity in preparation for the introduction of our community-based resilience workshops in November.

The $100 raised so far remains with GlobalGiving with the hopes that we can still promote the project enough to raise additional support before our scheduled Resilience Workshop series in November 2023.