September 26, 2009, Typhoon Ondoy brought a month’s worth of rainfall to Metro Manila and nearby areas in just 9 hours, causing severe flooding which resulted in the loss of many lives and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
Currently most of the victims are staying on school buildings, and public areas while trying to do something for a living. Most of them lost everything and in need of food, clothes, and shelter.
Since flooding was most pronounced in low-lying parts of Metro Manila and some towns in nearby Rizal province. Donations and volunteers where focus on them even though people in Bulacan also cries for help. Time is passing and only a few send help to Bulacan.
I am writing this for them. I myself experience the tragic effect of typhoon Ondoy and I know how much the people in Bulacan feel about it. I live a few steps away (right in front) of one of the evacuation centers in our town, a covered basketball court. It is a deep pain in me that I can’t anything to help them because I may myself don’t have enough.
They are in need of:
- Food, preferably those that don’t require much cooking like instant noodles, rice, bread, and the most important clean water.
- Blankets, mats, pillows, towels and new clothes, the basketball court is open and the floor is cemented.
- Medicines, some are sick and most of them are babies.
- Toiletries because they only use 2 comfort rooms and its not enough for 30 families.
With the help of your donations me and my friends will be able to send help to those that were not yet been serviced by most of the rescue teams and volunteers. They are victims too and they also need us.
Let us do this, now that Super Typhoon Pepeng already enters the premises of Luzon they will need the most help for them to still survive.
I am hopeful that this money can help the people in your community. Stay strong and I wish you good things to come. Tracy