Help the Philippines

October 1, 2009 | Global news, Infrastructure, Philippines, SDI, Slums

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Manila, yesterday

 

Sonia Fadraigo, Federation leader and Board member of AHI’s client Slum Dwellers International wrote this morning:


Federation not OK.  Badly hit.  Biggest disaster ever.  Don’t know where to start.  Still gathering info as to how many died.  Thousands of Fed members lost their houses – washed out by the floods.  We need help.  Thank you for the concern.  Please pray for us.  Another typhoon coming.

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Three weeks ago I was in Manila, at the Second Asia-Pacific Housing Forum, speaking about slum redevelopment as an urban poverty solution.  It rained the entire time, but the locals said, this isn’t rain.

 

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I flew home.

 

SDI Secretariat awaits further news. National Federations on standby to go to Manila if possible and if needed.

 

Remember Hurricane Katrina? 

 

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What it did to New Orleans?  How it completely changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans?

 

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Now imagine Katrina with informal self-built slums, inadequate plumbing and sanitation, and limited municipal infrastructure.

 

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Help the Phillippines.

 

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More information here.

 

UPDATE: Among the many worthwhile disaster-response charities working in the Philippines, we particularly recommend Habitat for Humanity Asia-Pacific (HFHAP), which has a donation link on their home page: http://www.habitat.org/ap/.

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Comments

Comment from J. Powers
Date: October 1, 2009, 2:14 pm

David,

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I recall that the Philippines were an AHI target, but I’m sorry to see the opportunity for creating a real affordable housing solution show up in such a terrible form.

How do think people ought to help?

 

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