Provide Emergency Relief Packs for Haiyan victims

As of March 31, 2014, we have ended our donation drive for the Typhoon Haiyan project. Since the typhoon struck on November 8, 2013, we immediately launched an online campaign to raise funds for our disaster response activities. We have received so much heartfelt support from all over the world and we would like to express our deep gratitude to everyone who donated to our cause.

Through your donations, in addition to providing emergency tents and food and non-food items during the emergency response phase, we have also been able to provide agricultural assistance to farming households affected by the typhoon. 

Distribution of 1-week supply of food and daily essentials

With the cooperation of our local partner Citizens' Disaster Response Center (CDRC) and its regional center Leyte Center for Development (LCDE), Civic Force distributed emergency relief packs containing 1 week's supply of food and daily necessities to 1,060 households. The distribution areas, isolated from the main urban distribution sites and with a mostly poor populace, were Alangalang and Albuera municipalities of Leyte province. Most of the residents in this area lost their belongings, their houses destroyed by the strong winds and floods.

We were able to provide goods essential for temporary refuge in the form of relief packs which contained the following:10 kilos of rice, 1 kilo of dried fish, 6 tins of sardines, 500ml of cooking oil, 1 bar of soap, 1 laundry soap, 5 meters of plastic sheet, 1 sleeping mat, 1 blanket, 3 toothbrushes, 1 tube of toothpaste, and 1 pack of sanitary napkins.

Provision of shelter 

Moreover, we shipped 960 emergency tents (for emergency evacuation use, approximately 16.5 square meters and can fit a family of about 6 people), which were previously stored in the facility owned by Fukuroi city, Shizuoka prefecture in Japan, with whom Civic Force has concluded a post-disaster emergency response pre-agreement. We distributed tents to 960 households in Tanauan, Leyte and Guiuan, Samar, where houses have been severely devastated by the typhoon.

Agricultural assistance to rebuild lives

Aside from these, we conducted a survey with our local partner NGO and consequently put our efforts towards helping restart the important farming industry from February. To reorganize farming households' livelihoods which were affected by the loss of crops pre-harvest as well as the destruction of farming tools, we decided to distribute agriculture seeds and farming tools in 3 barangays in Alangalang, Leyte: Tabangohay, Salvacion, and Langit.

To be specific, we distributed the following to a total of 806 households: 50 kilos of rice seeds and 10 kinds of vegetable seeds (tomato, eggplant, okra, cabbage, mustard, radish, spinach, bitter melon, string beans, pumpkin). We also delivered 1 set of farm tools (hoe, rake, sprayer, shovel, machete, plow) for every 10 households.

It is almost 5 months since the typhoon. As a member of the Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management (APADM), Civic Force will continue to support its fellow member CDRC's activities.