Help 4000 Odette Victims Have Food, Water, Power

With renewed hope, 2023 is welcomed by Odette victims with zest for new beginning.  2022 was started with their place in rubbles and the rest of the year was surving Odette through relief and painstaking effort of rebuilding homes. Before the year ends, most have gone back to their reconstructed homes and continue moving with their lives. 

We would like to thank all of you who have made a very big difference in the life of those who suffered.  To date, most roofings have been installed, walls wrapped up the houses anew and rural farming life continue to grind. 

It's been said that the Filipinos are resilient.  We may be bogged down by calamities, cry in pain of the losses in terms of properties and most sad for life taken.  Our vulnerabilities humbled us to seek help like this effort asking for your help where your every dollar count.  At the same time, we fend for ourselves together with the help you have extended.  It is where we rise through the rubbles and gather whatever could be salvaged from the catastrophe and put every wood for beams, walls and roofing structures so that life would not stop and stand still.  Life has to go on.  No amount of Odette infliction can shattered the resolve of each of the victims to rise.

Hence before the year 2022 is ending, we can say about 70% of rehabilitation work has productively done its course.  Much as there are still a lot wanting to say that the community members have fully recovered, the functionality of each one has been reestablished.  Mostly farmers, planting work according to season have production fields plowed and readied for croppings.  Ambulant vendors peddled their wares of local delicacies and vegetables around the neighborhood.  Sari-sari store, our local term for small convenient stores opened for business, children go back to school, tricycles ferry passengers to their destinations. 

Those who where late to receive assistance for construction have caught up putting their houses together as there are still wrapping up assistance extended by our local partners wanting to cover as much help to the victims.  

It is attempted to build back better with available materials accessed and given.  The community would always be positive that they can withstand the next typhoon, much more rely on their faith that God may spare them from another devastation.  

In all, we can say the community is moving on while support groups like our partner Conserving Bohol continue to provide what whatever resources coming in so that no one would be left out. It's heartwarming to note that you are with us in helping the victims through GlobalGiving.  We could not thank you enough but we are certain the community will never forget that you have become a part of them as they struggle to rise up from the rubbles. 

Thank you very much and God Bless You All!