A Letter fr Rev Bishop Efraim Tenorio
December 22, 2011 The people of Cagayan de Oro, Iligan and Dumaguete cities were caught unprepared as Typhoon Sendong struck last week. As one month’s worth of rainfall poured in one day, water, mud and illegally-cut logs from nearby mountains came like battering ram, sweeping communities in an instant. The deluge ...left more than 1,000 dead (with bodies still unidentified), 51 missing, and close to Php1 billion properties damaged as of press time. Even funeral homes experienced a shortage of supply in materials because of such great number of fatalities. About 48, 920 families have lost their homes and almost 10,000 of which are staying in overcrowded evacuation centers with threats of epidemics because of poor sanitary conditions. Direly in need of food, drinking water, clothing and medicine, survivors are barely recuperating from the disaster. As a preliminary response, through PHILRADS, we have mobilized our member churches and volunteers to help distribute food, mats a...