Electricity and Water for 1000 Typhoon Victims

With typhoons coming in during these months, the intial rehabilitation work of the power canals, power houses and electromechanical devices are ready against the odds and are now holding on. 

The  MHP communities are now geared to the finishing touches of the civil infrastructures while SIBAT's engineers are double checking the functions of the reinstalled   electromechanical components.

It's worth noting that  the communities are now fully aware as regards strengthening  the infrastructure built  to come up with robust systems.  The downtimes suffered when the systems were broken by floods and erosion  put a lot of strain  to the women who have to revert back to manual pounding of rice, and students resorting back to wick lamps and pithwoods when needing extended study time in the evening.

Those who are putting additional appliances like TV sets and radios missed recreation and recharging time.  Losses were incurred by those enterprising community members especially the ones selling cold water  and drinks  with their refrigerators shut down.  These strengthened their resolve to realign systems design, civil works and electro mechanical components  to withstand typhoon stresses as much as possible.  

By next month, with additional support from Global Giving, the commnunity will embark on a series of workshops and trainings around resiliency and preparedness work on top of emphasizing the physical and hardware elements of the systems. This is putting specificity  now on the software side of mitigating disaster which is as termed at present  the new normal  where  the indigenous microhydro communties, shocked as they are of the force that damage the systems are learning to battle up.  

More updates from the results in the next updating  and we thank you for continually supporting these community efforts through Global Giving.