I wish now that I could find the words to describe what I have in the last three days have seen but no matter how hard I try, how much I exert myself I only get down a one word: chaos. Both what I witnessed and saw on Bantayan Island, and it is happening wood table bases and going on in my head is right now chaos. Partly because I still can not understand and realize wood table bases how strong wood table bases a wind can be that drain through a large island and only leaving chaos behind them and partly because what I saw reminded me very much of the summer of 1997, when I first after the war returned to Bosnia and saw chaos for the first time in my life. Bantayan 2013 elicits flashbacks since the war in my head. House whose walls are scattered anywhere. Parts of the roof hanging wood table bases in trees. Trees that have fallen over the house. Furniture scattered on trails and meadows and people standing and looking out over the devastation. Some completely paralyzed, others already in the process of saving what can be saved.
The island is divided into three parts (cities with surrounding counties): Santa Fe, Dan Bantayan and Madridejos. The entire island has been hit hard by the typhoon and it is expected the destruction of up to 95% both in Santa Fe and Dan Bantayan. In Madridejos who have suffered most appreciate it right now total destruction of up to 98%.
Our task during these days was that along with my colleague, Moloy, identify the situation wood table bases on the island. Moloy working DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development) and has 70 social workers under him that are around the whole Bantayan Island. He has been on the island since the day after the typhoon, and so far he and his associates had time to map out a lot.
They do a fantastic job and compiles lists of all residents of all villages. They are also reviewing and documenting wood table bases the damage of property, health and more. This is done through interviews and one grazing of village after village, community by community. wood table bases
The damage is enormous, and those who may try to stay in their house no matter what the houses look like. In one of the houses where the interview took place was the house now only one and a half wall and nothing more. In the house lived four brothers. The oldest, 24 years old, took care of the three younger when the mother is in Cebu to work and send money home to his sons. The father was not mentioned.
DSWD's wood table bases employees have their offices in each city's town hall. During the day when the typhoon came to the island had, among other town halls as evacuation centers, in addition to some schools and other secure buildings. The good preparations prevented many deaths. On the whole Bantayan Island is a total of three people who have died as a result of the typhoon, very tragic, however. A girl and her father, among other things, and an older man. The girl was so frightened during the typhoon and panicked. She ran wildly out, not knowing where she ran. The father followed her, hoping to bring her back to safety again. But the girl could not be restrained. She ran and ran until she came to the sea without realizing the danger of being in the water. The father followed her in an attempt to save her but very tragically killed them both. The elderly man who died, died inside the evacuation center of a heart attack when he saw all that was going on and realized how much damage the typhoon had caused.
A lot of persons have been dead now in the days after the typhoon. Most likely, it's about people who have already previously had a bad heart and that after seeing this devastation could not handle more. Many of the people have in their entire lives working for their houses. Try to imagine being inside an evacuation wood table bases center an entire day and then come out and see that it no longer remains anything of that man in all his life has worked for. It's hard enough for a perfectly healthy person to cope with such a situation and move on, and of course even more difficult for someone who is old and sick.
DSWD's work is in addition to chart also to ensure that the donations reach all villages and that everything is distributed fairly. This is done by recording all the villages and all donations go to the respective village and community. When it's time for the donations to be distributed have been with them lists of all the people in that particular wood table bases village where they should. Subsequently, the first a queue where dots of one family at a time, and where the family will get a ticket and then the next queue where the ticket is submitted and the donation disclosure.
The first three days were the most critical wood table bases in Bantayan Island wood table bases where no communications at all existed with the island. During these days reached, nor is any donations island. wood table bases Today, however, much to the island and in terms of just food looks currently wood table bases very good and all the villages on the island wood table bases has received a number of donations wood table bases already and more are giving.
The biggest problem according Moloy and his colleagues at the moment is that the houses do not have roofs. wood table bases When it rains, people need somewhere to go, and some schools and other evacuation centers fi
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