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 Wysany: Pon Maj 12, 2014 11:05 Temat postu: gw2 gold Why we had to go to the Philippines to help typhoon |
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Before they spoke to their friends in the Philippines they hadn’t given any thought to going there to help, but something clicked and they knew it was the right thing to do. Bruce contacted the World Health Organisation to find out what aid was most needed and was told it was water cleansing units, so the couple bought as many as they could take on the plane – 144 units – packed their rucksacks and went. Even though they had seen the images on the television, they were shocked by what they found. “It was very sobering to be there,” says Bruce of their arrival in Tacloban after a 36- hour drive. “It was as if Southampton had been devastated by a tidal wave. Nothing was working. They saw dead bodies, seafront areas where all the houses had been swept away and acres of twisted rubble, cars, boats and other debris heaped up as high as a two-storey building. The couple’s past experience of aid work – Bruce, a part-time preacher, used to drive aid lorries to Romania – led them to a church in Palo in Leyte run by a pastor who had around 40 churches under him. They were welcomed with open arms – it was the first aid from outside that they had received. <a href="http://www.goldvk.com/Game.gw2_us.Guild Wars 2.gw2.Gold.Info.aspx">guild wars 2 gold</a> Bruce admits that before they arrived at the church he’d doubted his decision to go to the Philippines. “I felt very scared and apprehensive when we went to Tacloban that first morning. I wondered if we were getting in the way of professional organisations,” says Bruce. “But now I don’t feel we were in the way at all – especially once we had made contact with the church.” Jo and Bruce paid for petrol to run the church’s electricity generator and money for food. After a couple of days, Bruce headed back to the north of the country to preach at a Christian conference and also to source supplies that the community in Palo desperately needed – including chainsaws so that fallen palm trees can be turned into planks to rebuild houses, electricity generators and tarpaulins for people to patch damaged buildings and build shelters under. The couple initially paid for the items themselves, but have been largely refunded through around £5,000 private donations collected via the couple’s church in Southampton, although they paid the cost of their flights, own expenses and some donations while they were in the Philippines. Jo stayed with the pastor’s wife to help manage a medical aid operation for 3,000 people. “People have said I was brave, but I didn’t feel I was brave at all,” she says. Although the couple say that they largely felt very safe in the Philippines, they admit that they bought Christmas presents for their three grown-up children before they left and let them know where they were in case anything happened to them. And while they found it hugely rewarding being able to directly help people so desperately in need, from Bruce sourcing more than 100 tarpaulins to Jo comforting people who had lost loved ones, it was also distressing. “One day I wept in the pastor’s arms,” says Bruce, “It was very upsetting.” “Sometimes I realised the magnitude of everything and it felt overwhelming,”adds Jo. The couple spent three weeks in the Philippines and found it hard to return home. They are planning a return trip at the end of January. They both feel the experience has changed them and for the time being at least, raising funds and awareness to help people in the Philippines is their priority. <a href="http://www.goldvk.com/Game.gw2_us.Guild Wars 2.gw2.Gold.Info.aspx">guild wars 2 gold</a> “There is so much that needs to be done but we don’t let it overwhelm us,” says Jo. “We are a couple of semi-retired people,” says Bruce. “We’ve shown that it’s possible for an ordinary couple like us to get up and go and make a real difference.” Bruce and Jo are appealing for funds to pay for galvanised iron sheeting for roofing, nails and concrete, all for rebuilding homes and for basic stationery and cheerful posters for a wrecked junior school. DONATE To make a donation, v isit justgiving.com/ typhoon-reconstruction or text ASAP77 with a donation amount to 70070.E.g. to donate £5 text ASAP77 £5 CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT ANOTHER HAMPSHIRE COUPLE SENDING AID DIRECTLY TO PEOPLE IN THE PHILIPPINES AFFECTED BY THE DISASTER xboter 2014 |
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