Philippines Flooding Relief

Dear Friend,

Thank you very much for your donation to our project helping beneficiaries affected by flooding. This time is hot season but rains are projected to happen soon and with heavy rainfall the situation of flooding usually occurs. We encourage our beneficiaries to plant more trees in order to prevent flooding as the roots hold rampaging water besides getting income and food from the planted trees. This is we think the only solution especially to the problem of climate change as trees help cool the sorroundings. This reporting period we have supported the raising of fruit and timber tree seedlings by our beneficiaries and we are targeting reaching-out to 300 farmers for the tree planting activities as the rain starts. Hoping for your continuing help to this project.

Very sincerely yours,

Cora Sayre

Dear Friend,

Happy New Year and thank you very much for your generous support to our initiative exploring and establishing interventions to prevent flooding. One of the causes of flooding is the lack of barriers like trees in the mountainsides and everytime there is torrential rain, massive flash floods occur. There is a need to contain this situation given that most of our project sites are flood-prone. In order to do this, we provide assistance to farmers to plant fast-growing trees in their hillsides in order to prevent flooding. Their choice of trees are fruit trees which is undertandable given the need for food by local farmers. There are a lot of tree species that are fast growing and are economically important and we are promoting these. Hoping for your continuing support to our initiative. Thank you very much.

Very sincerely yours,

Cora Sayre