Project Report
| Jan 27, 2015
Installing Toilets During the Papal Mass
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Endless use of our toilets during the Papal Mass
Dear All Friends,
Warm greetings from rainy Leyte. I am very proud to report that during the visit of Pope Fancis here in Tacloban, Leyte, we are one of organizations tasked to provide proper sanitation to the thousands of pilgrims. The pilgrims numbering about 150,000 come mainly from the provinces of Leyte and Samar as well as all over the country. Prior to the event, when we inspected the site where the Papal Mass is to be celebrated, we found out that the areas where the toilets will be located has no water source.
In this situation, we decided to install our brand of water-less toilets. The toilet uses no water and the waste collected in polybags and drums are kept at the side to be disposed later. Other toilets installed in the area are the imported portalets which stink and unusable after 20-30 users. Our toilet can be used endlessly, with proper management.
After the Mass, we distributed our toilets to local very poor beneficiaries.
Thanks so much to you my friends for your support to this very important project. We will use this model in times of emergency or when there are large gatherings again.
With much gratitude,
Cora
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Dec 23, 2014
Readying for next year's toilet implementation
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Dear All Friends,
My warmest greetings as we close this year 2014. It is a continuing awesome journey for us as we touched so many lives in our implementation of low-cost toilets for Typhoon Haiyan survivors. We got very scared the first week of this month with the news of another super-typhoon called Typhoon Hagupit but thank God it did not hit us squarely and damage especially to the toilets and homes that we have built is small. There are still so many survivors here without toilets and as the year ends, we continue to pre-fabricate the toilets as well as refine our toilet bowls so that it becomes shiny and smooth and nice for the users. To end this year, we will distribute 50 complete toilets and 150 toilet bowl to local residents located in Albuera, Leyte by December 29, 2014. Then for this year, our total number of toilets distributed is 1,235 new toilets and repairs of 2,400. We were able to distribute also a total of 4,230 hygiene kits comprising soap and toothbrush. We hope to continue aiming for higher distribution numbers by this year. Recovery afte Typhoon Haiyan will take long as the devastation was massive.
Hoping for your continuing support to our cause.
hope that you will inform your colleague and friends about our work here.
A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Nov 17, 2014
Continue with low-cost toilet building
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Low-cost toilet
Dear All Friends,
Greetings from Leyte and thank you very much for your very generous support to our project to build toilets for Typhoon Haiyan survivors. Last week we were able to provide toilets to 116 beneficiaries living in the municipalities of Lawaan, Giporlos and Balangiga in Eastern Samar. Eastern Samar was badly hit with the typhoon making its first landfall in Guiuan and then hitting Tacloban. Eastern Samar is not so well supported perhaps because it is Tacloban who is always in the radar and news. We are partnering with a local group of volunteer-survivors in selecting the most needy beneficiaries and then installing the toilets together with them. The group is Balangiga without Borders.
We will continue installing toilets in Leyte and Samar for the next 2-3 years as damage to the areas is very extensive. Toilets is also last priority by international aid so this will be our focus.
Hoping for your continuing support to our project. Please inform your friends and colleagues about our work. Our link is,
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/low-cost-sanitation-for-typhoon-haiyan-survivors/
Thank you so much.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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