Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Tropical Storm Ketsana left 420 dead and 37 missing when it flooded gsc pavillion 80 percent of Man

Repost: DSWD – DO NOT DELAY! | A Day in the Life of Babito
I am reposting this blog entry from Ella ( http://www.ellaganda.com ), a DSWD volunteer, about the ‘hoarding’ of relief goods inside the DSWD warehouse. Ang masasabi ko lang, donations gsc pavillion naman ang mga goods na yan a. At yung mga imported at mga laruan pa yung natira. Tagapamahagi lang sila kaya dapat ipamigay gsc pavillion na nang ipamigay! Bahala na kayong humusga! gsc pavillion Pasok!
I m asking your help to spread the word. Tulungan po ninyo akong ikalat ito. Beyond this, we should also demand action. I disabled a plugin so you can copy the photos of relief goods rotting in DSWD warehouses. You can link this post to your blogs, facebook, websites etc. You can also email the photos. Philippine News (US based Philippine newspaper) will use this as its front page story this week. Every Filipino has the right to know where the tons of donations from the UN and other counties go. Kahit po nakakahiya sa mga nag-donate. Kung sa ganitong paraan, matutulungan natin ang mga nasalanta, then by all means, let s do it. For those who have the time, please try to volunteer sa DSWD warehouses. Getting in was not easy. A friend had to put in a word for us. Let s see kung madali nang makapasok sa DSWD warehouse ang mga volunteers. Please read on and good luck to us.
This short interview was done over the phone. Philippine News wanted to hear her side pero ayaw niyang makipag-usap gsc pavillion sa press. After four tries, pinasabi na lang niya ang maikling sagot na ito sa secretary niya – Walang volunteers . I don t want to accuse her of corruption but at the very least she is showing signs of being totally incompetent. We are in a state of calamity where every second counts. May namamatay araw-araw dahil sa sakit. In my opinion, these deaths could have been prevented if Secretary Cabral had tried a little harder to do her job.
Tropical Storm Ketsana left 420 dead and 37 missing when it flooded gsc pavillion 80 percent of Manila on September 26, a disaster the government said affected 4.35 million people. Some areas are still flooded three weeks later and 189,000 people remain in evacuation centres, gsc pavillion Typhoon gsc pavillion Parma hit the northern Philippines on October 3 and lingered as a tropical storm for a week, triggering landslides that killed 438 people and leaving 51 missing mostly in mountain communities. The government agency said Parma affected 4.16 million people, including more than 32,000 gsc pavillion who remain at evacuation gsc pavillion centres.
At the offices of many civic groups and private organizations, hundreds of people showed up to volunteer in packing relief goods. At the Tulong Bayan center at the Expo Centro in Cubao, Most of the volunteers were adolescents as young as 10 years old, along with their kuya or ate in high school and college. They came in huge numbers, many of them barkadas, classmates or siblings, dressed just in their tees and shorts, gsc pavillion wearing their Havaianas. All were just enthusiastic to do their share!
Our government begged the world for more donations. Sumagot ang buong mundo sa ating panawagan. In less than three weeks, dumaong ang mga barko, ibinaba mula sa mga cargo planes, gsc pavillion i-diniliver ng mga trak at container vans ang sandamakmak na relief goods. Cash donations were in the millions of dollars. But these donations must be coursed through DSWD. Nagpalabas ng directive ang pangulo. Individuals, private companies and other nations were ENCOURAGED to send their donations to DSWD. I blogged about it here and the video of her announcement here. This PGMA directive sounded suspicious to me then. Now I know why. Here s the story. A group of eight people, gsc pavillion your ate Ella included, went to one of DSWD warehouses to help in repacking relief goods. We know they need volunteers pero hindi namin akalaing WALANG TAO TALAGA SA LOOB NG WAREHOUSE! As in sa isang humongous warehouse (1000++ sq.m) NA PUNONG-PUNO NG RELIEF GOODS HANGGANG BUBONG, ISANG DSWD employee lang at ISANG SECURITY GUARD ang tao!!
UNICEF Registration (as a volunteer) The warehouse can only take as much as 50 volunteers at a time or per shift. Here you will find that there is a 4-hour shift, and an option for a 6-hour shift for the volunteers to indicate their availability.
What volunteers ? Nasaan? Aside from the 8 of us? Nope, there was nobody there. Bakit kailangan ang scheduling? Feeling hindi ba magkamayaw at nagu-unahan ang mga volunteers? I know somebody who wanted to volunteer many times. She was always bumped gsc pavillion off, laging nirere-schedule kasi there were too many volunteers daw. At tuwing Sunday lang daw puwede. What the hell is going on here? Nakatambak ang donations ng UNICEF sa warehouse, local and international Mga banig na dapat ay nahihigaan ng mga nasalanta. Mga imported camp beds na hindi na yata masisilayan ng mga biktima. Mga kumot na hindi naman nakabalot sa katawan nila. At mga pagkaing hindi sumasayad sa sikmura nila. The relief goods are not going anywhere gsc pavillion We arrived at about 8

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