Nov 05, 2009

Cordillera: Urgent Appeal for Support


The CORDILLERA PEOPLES ALLIANCE has released an urgent appeal for support for the victims of typhoon Pepeng, the Philippines.

The CORDILLERA PEOPLES ALLIANCEare pleased to share with you that your generous donations, hardearned money, solidarity and spirit of volunteerism provided relief goods, first aid and medical missions; and significant assistance to road clearing and retrieval operations, benefiting a total of 1,142 families or 6, 903 individuals in Baguio City and the provinces of Benguet Itogon, Tublay, Kapangan, Bokod, Mankayan, Buguias, Tuba) and Mountain Province (Tadian, Betwagan) from October 9 to 26, 2009.
Total cash donations since October 9 has now reached P771,892.00, while donations in kind (food, clothing, shoes, kitchen utensils and other supplies) totals the amount of P 1,246,761.00. Food-for-work was also provided for communities rehabilitating their roads, irrigation systems and stonewalls in the said provinces. Community psycho-social processing and debriefing, including indigenous rituals has kicked off in Mountain Province and parts of Benguet. As of this writing, the second batch of relief goods for 100 families and food for work were delivered to the very isolated community of Labey, Bokod via Kilometer 21 in Tublay municipality. 150 families were given relief goods in
Boklaoan, Kapangan earlier this week.

 

Visit the Cordillera Peoples Alliance website (www.cpaphils.org ) for recent update reports.

For the urgent appeal for relief please click here

For a pdf from the Cordillera People's Alliance thanking donors please click here