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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:47:31 -0400
From: v_uychutin@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Update on Disaster Needs
To: ronwhite456@hotmail.com
Dear Rtn. Ed Mattson,
Thank you for your email. In our province of Laguna all coastal towns were affected including our town Cabuyao. So I can only talk about the situation in our town of Cabuyao, Province of Laguna, Philippines.
Six (6) coastal barangays (villages) were submerged during the typhoons that hit us this month. More or less 10,000 families lives in these villages. About 2,500 families are still in the evacuation centers.
So far we have been experiencing good weather for a few days now enabling the waters of the lake to recede slightly. However, there are areas still in chest-deep waters. Hence,residents of these areas still can not return to their own residences and are forced to stay in public elementary and national high schools.By day the students uses the classrooms and by night its the evacuees turn to use the classrooms. This situation has affected the students' learning. Noting this situation, we got help from the Shelter Box Response Team organization. Our town of Cabuyao was allocated 22 shelter box and 12 shelter box tents, which are being taken cared of by the Rotary Club of Cabuyao Circles and Rotary Club of Cabuyao, respectively. We transfered some evacuees to these shelter boxes and tents to alleviate the situation in the school classrooms serving as temporary evacuation area. However these number of tents can only accomodate about 66 families.
Right now potable or clean drinking water is now being considered a major concern by almost everybody. Those in their respective homes but still submerged in knee deep waters and those in the evacuation centers including our two Shelter box camp rely on few deep well water pumps (manual). For the drinking needs of the infants and children they buy purified water. But only a few of these people are moneyed enough to buy the purified water hence, they rely purely on the deep well.
Our Rotary District 3820 has been designated benificiary of AquaBox, a water purifying contraption. But only a few were allocated to our District 3820, due to logistical constraint, which is one of the hardest hit by the floodings. Our Town of Cabuyao, thru our 2 RCs, may only get one AquaBox which is not enough. Therefore your donation of WaterBox will be most welcome.
1. Like with the Shelter Box and AquaBox the consignee should be our District 3820 Governor first and then they in turn distribute the waterboxes to the individual concerned rotary clubs who in turn strategically assign the units to a particular pre-determined area (most probably it will be placed on any of our two shelter box camps in case we are allocated only one unit).
2. We take the responsibility of taking the pictures or documenting the Rotary humanitarian activities and in sending the necessary thank yous and appreciation to donors.
3. As mentioned above, our priority are the two shelter box camps we put up. One in the village of Marinig and the other one in the village of Gulod, all of Cabuyao. If you can only allocate 1 waterbox to us then it is anyone of our clubs which may not recieve the AquaBox who eill be the beneficiary. However, if we can be allocated more, second in priority are the following villages with evacuation centers in schools, Bigaa Village, Butong Village, Marinig Village and Gulod Village.
4. Labeling in English is recommended.
The problem now is the new strong typhoon will be hitting just over our province and that will really like going back to the situation 3 weeks ago.
I hope I can be of much help to you in your planning.
YiRS,
Voltaire Uychutin
PresidentRotary Club of Cabuyao
District 3820
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