by Tessa Jamandre When storm “Ondoy” (“Ketsana”) struck on Sept. 26, the morning after was a picture of a devastated capital, a people in anguish…
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Pinayagan na ulit ng pamahalaan ang donasyon ng mga lumang damit galing sa ibang bansa. Ito ay para mapadali ang tulong para sa mga biktima ng bagyong “Ondoy”. Walang taripa ngunit kailangan naka-address sa Department of Social Welfare and Development ( DSWD).
Kailangan kasi ma-inspeksyun ng husto ng DSWD at mapausukan (fumigate) dahil hindi naman alam kung anong bakterya ang nandyan sa mga lumang damit.
At gustong siguraduhin ng pamahalaan na hindi maabuso ang pagpasok dito ng mga lumang damit, katulad ng nangyari dati. Baka kasi ang bagsak niyan ay sa ukay-ukay ulit. Sa halip na ang ang mga nasalanta ng bagyo ang makinabang, ang mga mapagsamantalang tao ang magsasaya.
The Bureau of Customs sought Friday to allay public distrust arising from the directive of Gloria Arroyo to course all foreign donations through the Department…
by JP Lopez
Malaya
The Local Water Utilities Administration, a government-controlled corporation, held a “lavish” feast for its 36th anniversary Wednesday night, a virtual slap on the face of half a million Filipinos victimized by storm “Ondoy” who are scrounging for relief goods.
President Arroyo arrived at 9 p.m.
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano said that while most celebrations have been cancelled to donate to victims of Ondoy, the move of LWUA to proceed with its anniversary is the “height of insensitivity.”
The way the whole nation responded to help victims of typhoon “Ondoy” is awesome.
The TV networks, ABS-CBN and GMA-7 used their power and influence for something noble. So many groups are taking it upon themselves to undertake their own independent relief operations.
ABS-CBN’s Ted Failon did an admirable thing focusing on raising funds for more portalets for evacuation sites. Ted, in his radio program at DZMM, said he saw the unhealthy situation in evacuation centers where there were only one portalet for over a thousand evacuues.
This morning, Ted, though donations was able to acquire 15 portalets to be rented for at least P10,000 a month including services.
We got this note from Habitat for Humanity:
Habitat for Humanity Philippines will be conducting a mini-soup kitchen at two Pasig Evacuation Centers where our homepartners are. We need volunteers from 6am-2pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 2,3 and 4) to distribute arroz caldo. Please contact 8973069 or 09178260881″
Some of you have been asking me the past days where to give your donations because you want to make sure that they get to the intended beneficiaries.
Crocodile sighted swimming in Cainta—TV report
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Floods covering large parts of Manila have brought a new intruder—a crocodile, which was seen swimming in a village in Cainta, Rizal, local television reported Wednesday.
Top broadcaster ABS-CBN quoted local residents as saying that they spotted the five-foot long crocodile late Monday as they made their way through flooded streets of the town.
Resident Michael Lambert said he and his friends saw a floating object which they thought might be a tire.
Napansin nyo ba mula Sabado, nang nananalasa ang bagyong Ondoy hanggang ngayon, wala pang order si Gloria Arroyo na magpalabas ng pera mula sa contingency fund?
Tiningnan ko ang website ng Office of the Press Secretary kung saan lahat na press release ng Malacañang lumalabas, wala ni isang order magpalabas ng pera.
Dati kapag may bagyo, pasikat kaagad si Arroyo. Magu-order siyang magpalabas ng pera. Sa budget mayroong mga P1 bilyon na calamity fund at P1 bilyon din para sa contigency fund. Kaya total na mga P2 bilyon sa isang taon. Sa opisina yan ng Presidente at kailangan ang kayang approval sa pagpalabas nun.
In an article written by Gil Cabacungan, Inquirer reported that Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey Arroyo” yesterday pushed for tighter regulation of the Facebook, the world’s leading social networking site, after he claimed to be a victim of a “malicious attack” by one of its members.
“My picture was posted on Facebook with a caption saying I was shopping for wine at the height of “ondoy”. This is another malicious attack on my person. It is so depressing,” Arroyo wrote in an e-mail response to the Facebook post which has appeared in several blogs.
Arroyo claimed he was in Malacañang last Saturday and that it was difficult to cross Katipunan from the village where he lives because of the rising floods. “How could I be at Rustan’s on Katipunan Avenue at the height of Ondoy when Katipunan was impassable at that time? For the record I was in Malañang with my family trying to mobilize rescue and relief operations for people of Metro Manila and for my constituents in my district in Pampanga,” he said.
Update: Back to Malacañang as evacuation center.
Former AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon, now chief of the Presidential Management Staff said there was an apparent miscommunication: Malacañang was not supposed to be an evacuation center as Arroyo herself announced Monday.
“This is a repacking center, meaning we will receive donations, repack them, then send them to evacuation centers where the flood victims are,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. “If they want to receive relief goods, they should go to the evacuation centers.”