Images of VF Relief Response

 Visayan Forum sustained an online campaign to mobilize local in-kind donations. Institutions, students and individuals
responded with the provision of grocery packs. Local response raised enough emergency aid to cover the needs and
operations in the affected communities initially identified by Visayan Forum. From October 8 to 11, 2009, VF in coordination
with local partner organizations and local government officials distributed relief goods to 1’800 families in Isla Puting Bato,
Paco, Pandacan, Maybunga and Balayan. During the same time, VF distributed school supplies to 1’000 affected school children
in Paco and Pandacan. With the help of local doctors and nurses, VF also conducted medical missions for 1’600 families
in Pandacan/ Paco and Isla Puting Bato. 

                  

 

Weighing a child before medical mission                                  Volunteer doctors from Mu Sigma Sorority

                 

Medicines for the sick                                                                     Volunteer  doctor helps child from Isla Puting Bato

                    

Medical mission in Pandacan covered court                     VF President Cecil Oebanda helps BBK leaders distribute school supplies

              

BBK leader lend a hand to school children                Two happy girl children among 800 assisted so that they don't have to stop schooling

             

VF staff and volunteers prepare fore relief during brown-out     First medical mission/cum relief for Isla Puting Bato 

Aboitiz Transport System donated 800 relief packs for these residents from Isla Puting Bato

              

Local doctors currently stationed in Isla Puting Bato tells of the need for mobile clinic in the area for long term response

      

 Many children suffer boils and other skin diseases because of their constant exposure to polluted sea water

        

VF and ATS also reached out to residents of Maybunga in Pasig who were still flooded more than two weeks after the typhoon

        

More pictures of relief distribution in Maybunga, Pasig City

       

 

Photos by Roland R. Pacis