Balay Mindanaw Foundation, Inc.

Kaangayan, Kalambuan, Kalinaw ... sa Mindanaw, sa Pilipinas, sa Kalibutan

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Balay Mindanaw Relief Operations Report No. 19
As of 5 p.m., 9 January 2012

[See our previous reports here: Jan. 8, Jan. 7, Jan. 6, Jan. 5, Jan. 4, Jan. 2, Dec. 31, Dec. 29, Dec. 28, Dec. 27, Dec. 26, Dec. 23 4pm, Dec 23 12nn, Dec. 22, Dec. 21, Dec. 20, Dec. 19 6pm, Dec. 19]

Volunteers set up tents for evacuees.

Today, the BM Relief Team distributed school supplies kits to 899 school children in Bonbon Elementary School and 80 packs of food and non-food items in Zone 9, Bonbon. Food and clothing packages good for 89 families were also delivered to the tent communities in Barangay Indahag.

Tomorrow, 290 school supplies kits will be distributed to the school children in Barangays Canitoan and Kauswagan.

Today, the second BM-supported tent community near the San Miguel Chapel in Lomboy, Barangay Indahag will welcome 39 families from the City Central School as its temporary residents while they await permanent relocation. Three portalets from DSWD and a water tank from CRS have been delivered. Power is expected to be installed in time for the moving in of the new residents.

Also today, BM workers and volunteers, DAI volunteers and 30 Boy Scouts set up 13 tents at the Regional Science High School. This third BM-supported tent community will welcome its new residents tomorrow.

At the first tent community at Indahag Elementary School, 12 committees have been formed, community-building activities and discussions on livelihood projects have begun, and the Camp Manager has been appointed by DSWD.

As part of its psycho-social intervention (PSI), BM, with three graduating Psychology students of Ateneo de Davao, facilitated games and drawing activities for 25 school-age children (5 to 12 years old) whose families were among the residents of Sitios Calacala, Tibasak and Tambo in Barangay Macasandig, and now temporarily staying at the first Indahag Tent Community. More follow through activities are being planned by the PSI Cluster.

World Food Programme (WFP) has informed the BM Operations Center that 28 boxes of relief goods from South Korea are arriving within the week.

Now that we have entered the third week of operations, the flow of cash donations has significantly slowed down, while the demand for more comprehensive work has grown. We now need to intensify our efforts at more programmatic and more sustained interventions. Arthur Neame, former country representative of Christian Aid-UK, has arrived to help us prepare proposals to help sustain our disaster response and risk reduction initiatives.

We wish to thank you again and again for your continuing accompaniment and support.

We refuse to be victims. We choose to be resources.

[See our previous reports here: Jan. 8, Jan. 7, Jan. 6, Jan. 5, Jan. 4, Jan. 2, Dec. 31, Dec. 29, Dec. 28, Dec. 27, Dec. 26, Dec. 23 4pm, Dec 23 12nn, Dec. 22, Dec. 21, Dec. 20, Dec. 19 6pm, Dec. 19]