Dear friends and partners,
Here is the latest report from our Quick Assessment Team in Ormoc, Leyte for their second day on the ground.
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A. DISTRICT 26 & 29
Situation
The quick assessment teams met up with barangay captains Nimfa Rufali of B26 and Monchou De Paz of B29. The objective was to get a perspective of the barangay’s situation after the disaster.
The barangays are composed of 1,500 households with a population of approximately 6000. Both barangays were totally damaged by the typhoon Yolanda. Barangay 29 reported that one 10-year-old child had died, while five other people were injured.
Following the typhoon, the barangay captains took the initiatve to go to DSWD to get their ration of relief. They were given allocations of 1.8kg of rice and 2 canned goods per household. Repacking was done in the barangay.
Due to lack of food and relief, some families have resorted to eating coconuts because they feel there is no assurance as to when the next wave of relief goods will arrive.
Priority Needs
– Rice
– Shelter/tents
– Medicines
– Facilities for health and sanitation
B. BRGY. CAN-ADIENG – bgry captain edgardo alburo.
Situation
At Barangay Can-adieng, the team spoke to barangay captain Edgardo Alburo. The barangay has a population of 4,500 divided into 560 households. Damage in their barangay was mostly to their roofings. The DSWD had already provided them with 1 & 3/4 kilos of rice per household and 2 canned goods. They said they were also able to utilize their barangay calamity fund from IRA. 30% of this is for food and 70% for equipment. There is no bank in the area and so they have to negotiate with business entities for the purchase of food items.
Their evacuation center is the Can-adieng elementary school, which was also totally damaged.
Priority Needs
– food
– building materials for temporary shelter
C. ASSESSMENT OF THE EVACUATION CENTERS
The team was able to assess two evacuation centers:
1. Ormoc City Central School
2. Eastern Visayas State University
General Observations:
The night before the typhoon, evacuees had flocked into these two centers. About 8 families or 30 persons shared each classroom. There is only one toilet per 100 families. This is now starting to clog. So far, no camp managers or CSW has been assigned to these centers and there is no actual account of the number of evacuees yet.
Aside from food, health and sanitation seem to be major issues.
D. REVISITING ORMOC CITY HALL
According to the city hall records, out of 110 barangays, 46 barangays were recorded as “served” while 63 were “not served”. To clarify, the barangays marked as “served” are those who had already received relief items, but whether or not this is sufficient or equally distributed is still unclear. Those marked as “unserved” were those who had not yet received relief or not information was available on the barangay to date.
E. OTHER ORGANIZATIONS ON THE GROUND
-Child Fund for water
– Red Cross
– Turkish Government (400 family food packs)
– Cebu LGU truckloads of relief.
F. CONVERSATION WITH CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS
There was a meeting with the ff. groups:
* Rotary
* Chamber of Commerce
* Philippine Medical Assocation
* Lions Club
All the groups were engaging in disaster response. The top concern was for relief distribution to reach far-flung barangays which had not yet received anything.
Balay Mindanaw’s QAT was requested to facilitate the conversation among the groups. The team was able to share our experiences in disaster response and disaster response engagement.
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Daghang Salamat!
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