Typhoon Haiyan Filipino Home Building Project

Dear Friends,

Greetings from Leyte and thank you very much for your continuing support to our home-building project. Doubling the troubles of 35 families Typhoon Haiyan survivors particularly in Barangay Talisayan, Albuera Municipality is the decision of the land-owner of the land where they have their temporary houses to demolish their houses because the land-owner will build a new structure. We are helping the 35 families with building materials which they will be able to use when they transfer to other places to build their houses. Most of them were able to ask relatives and friends for the use of a small portion of their lots where they can build their homes but they badly need building materials. The building materials we are providing are bamboo mats, coconut lumber, nails, galvanized iron for roofing and cement.

Thank you once again for your kind help.

Very sincerely yours,

 Cora

Dear Friends,

We are continuing with the home-building and home repair initiative for survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. in Leyte we have done already a total of 77 new homes and repaired 345. The repairs are mostly replacement of walls made of tarp and plastic to a more permanent one and made with bamboo mats. Bamboo mats is our choice because it is tough and withstand warping due to rain. Then we are able also to utilize local bamboo product earning an income by the farmers and the artisans making the mats earning income too. I hope that this approach will be utilized by the agencies more and more rather than bringing plastic as shelter kit and distribute it to the beneficiaries.

This week we will be moving to Borongan in Samar to continue with the home-building activities as the problem there is compounded double because of the devastation of the most recent Typhoon Ruby which hits the area hard. We have already finished our assessment for Borongan and I will submit update in next report.

Hoping for more support from you.

Very sincerely yours,

Cora