Potable Water for Everyone
Our team in Tacloban has just started building a community piped water supply in Brgy. Capulhan, Dagami! This beneficial project will provide access to clean and safe water for at least 100 families in the area. Neighboring barangays will be able to collect water from this source, too! Keep the team in your prayers!
Shelter Assistance for Leyteanons
More indigent families in Alang-Alang and Leyte-Leyte in the province of Leyte are receiving shelter repair materials plus water purifying units! Our year-long Support to Shelter Recovery (SSR) Project is closing this March, and through your prayers and the generous support of our donors, we have been able to help rebuild the lives and homes […]
A House from God
“Thank you! I now have a house.” Grateful words from Carmensita Beso of Brgy. Calapwan, Capiz. Carmensita lost her entire house during Typhoon Yolanda. With the shelter assistance given by ADRA, Carmensita now lives in her newly built home. Thank you ADRA Canada and Alberta Adventist News for this feature!
ADRA responds to Typhoon Seniang victims
December 31, 2014 – As majority of Filipinos prepared for the coming new year celebration, Typhoon Seniang (Jangmi) battered Eastern Visayas and Northern Mindanao with winds of 65 kph near the center with gusts of 80 kph. Though relatively weaker than Typhoon Ruby, Typhoon Seniang caused more deaths than the former. Fifty-six were killed, eight […]
Shelter in the time of storm
In Leyte, ADRA provided shelter repair assistance to 1,000 families whose houses have been totally or partially damaged by supertyphoon Haiyan/Yolanda. But just we approach the culmination of the project, signal No. 3 Typhoon Ruby has put our shelter rehabilitation efforts to the test a week ago. How happy we are to see the houses […]
Ruby Response
Typhoon Hagupit, also locally known as Typhoon Ruby, entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) late on 3 December as a Category 5 super typhoon. The Philippine government, through National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC), alerted all affected Local Government Units (LGU) regarding the possible impact of the typhoon. Philippine media made available information […]
Rising Up
Romulo Dayaday, 68 years old and an amputee, crawled his way to survival towards the nearest evacuation center during Typhoon Yolanda last year. He made it through, but not his house, which was totally torn to pieces. ADRA helped Romulo and his family repair their house just few months after the super storm. But as […]
Crawling for safety
Romulo Dayaday, 68, resident of Brgy. Agbobolo, Ajuy, Iloilo stayed inside their house during the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan. Before the landfall, he instructed his wife and three children to transfer to the nearest evacuation center while he remained in their hut to look after their belongings and farm animals. Few hours later, strong winds […]
Still Standing
“I didn’t have doubts that our ADRA-built house is strong and can protect us. But just to make sure, I asked my brother to tie our shelter to a tree, just like what my neighbors are doing with their houses every time a storm comes.” Rosemarie Malate, 29, a mother of two in Brgy. Baybay, […]
Czech Republic partners with ADRA PH
ADRA Philippines is grateful for the presence of Czech Republic Ambassador Jan Vytopil in the country last week as he visited our ADRA projects in Makato, Aklan and Ajuy, Iloilo. The Czech Republic Humanitarian Aid is a major agency working with ADRA Philippines in building transitional shelters for the survivors of typhoon Haiyan in Makato […]