Emergency Food Packs for Typhoon Haiyan Survivors

Dear Friends,

Warm greetings and thanks so much for your kind support. In our last report, we described our initiative to provide a Christmas party to children who survived Typhoon Haiyan. Great for us because aside from the funds coming from Global Giving, there a lot of other supporters who provided much needed support. During the party, we matched from portion of our Global Giving fund, a support coming from Pastor Norman Solis of New York who sent directly his donation to us. A group also coming from a state university here in the Philippines came and brought with them slippers for distribution to the children. Then an experienced team that managed this type of event lent a helping hand. Some other people donated in their own way, bags, shirts, school supplies. Local mothers and older children helped in the cooking, preparing the venue and other related activities. This is how we do our activities here, people including the survivors helping hand in hand. From an original target of 75 children, we were able to entertain 300 plus during that time.

This report, we are happy to say that a Marx Canoy, chef extraordinaire who rose from his humble beginnings in the Philippines to become a chef to the stars (including Oprah Winfrey, Prince Frederick of Denmark & Sir Elton John during their visit to Australia) will be coming on Valentines Day to demonstrate his culinary skills and feed local children. He will be demonstrating the use of local ingridients in order to produce world-class menus and using as oven and kitchen materials the recycled materials from the damaged houses. Marx Canoy is launching a new cookbook   "Food Feast: Traditional to World-class Philippine Cuisine”. I am sure that many others will contribute also to this effort like what we did during the Kiddie Party last December 28. Some supporters we fail to acknowledge while others we did. Blessings will come from heaven.

Very sincerely yours,

Cora

Dear Friends,

Warm greetings and a blessed New Year to all. Before we closed on December 28, for the New Year, we decided to hold a Kiddie Party for the kids survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in Albuera Municipality in Leyte Province. Albuera is where our second mobile office and toilet production area is located. We invited 320 kids and provided them with food, gifts consisting of toys, bags, slippers, chocolates, clothes and hygiene kits such as soap and toothbrushes. These are precious commodities in the area and we purchase these in our main office and ship to Ormoc City. 

The event was a big success bringing smiles to 320 children and their parents and even for a day only, the ravages and tragedy wrought about by Typhoon Haiyan were forgotten. There were lots of games and singing and the smiles in the faces of the children were our joy enough.

Again, thank you so much. If you can, kindly help us also with our food security via vegetable gardening project. Vegetable gardening will enable the survivors to eat nutritious vegetables in such a short time, as some vegetables like pechay can be harvested in 22 days.

The link to this project is,  http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/typhoon-haiyan-survivors-food-security-project/

Very sincerely yours,

Cora Sayre

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