Hulp in Cebu

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ANYONE who is looking for a typhoon Yolanda evacuee in Cebu City can do so online.

The City Government through the Management Information and Computer Services (Mics) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development recently launched the Cebu City Evacuees Finder.

One can go to www.cebucity.gov.ph. The website contains the list of evacuees with their information sourced by the City from the records of DSWD 7 staff stationed at the six evacuation centers of the city.

The city's evacuation centers for refugees from Tacloban and other areas from the Province of Leyte are the Tinago Sports Complex, Cogon Ramos Sports Complex, Capitol Parish Gym, Guadalaupe Sports Complex, San Roque Sports Complex and the San Nicolas Proper Sports Complex.

In the website, the public or a relative of a typhoon survivor can see the evacuee's information, including the name, age, gender and place of origin.

It also says what evacuation center the evacuee is housed.

Relatives, friends

The website provides information on whether the evacuees are still in the center or if have been fetched by relatives or friends already.

"If they were brought out from the evacuation center by relatives or friends, the name of the relative or friends with contact number and addresses are also provided, including the date they were taken out from the evacuation center," the City said in its one-page press release.

As for those who are looking for a relative in the evacuation center but have no Internet access, the City said they can call Mics' at 411-0177.

The MICS' call center, the City said, will be operating from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Monday to Friday.

"The system is also available at the DSWS Office in Barangay Labangon and at the Guadalupe and San Nicolas evacuation centers as they have internet connections," the City said.

This, as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 7 will allow the immediate transport of evacuees in Cebu who want to go to their relatives in different parts of the country.

A private vessel of the Philippine Navy Allied Resource Unit (PNARU) has transported 51 transients from Cebu to Manila.

F/B Chrysanthemum left Cebu last Thursday.

The vessel, together with F/B Brilliant Star 2, had come from Tacloban carrying close to 100 survivors and passed by Cebu before going to Manila.

Semeon Remata III, social marketing officer of DSWD 7 said, survivors who have money for transportation may leave Cebu anytime they want.

Those who don't have money will have to wait for the transportation provided by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

"We are just depending on the transport thru the C-130s and the vessels of the Philippine Navy," said Remata.

As of yesterday, DSWD has recorded 1,500 individuals staying in the 11 evacuation centers in Lapu-lapu and Cebu City.

[Hansy]

@Benincebu

Kijk, van dit antwoord word ik een stuk vrolijker.

Algemeen
Overigens wel opvallend, dat in antwoorden wordt verwezen naar stukken van de overheid, terwijl diezelfde overheid wordt afgeschilderd als uiterst corrupt.

Zou het dan niet kunnen zijn, dat de situatie door de overheid veel te rooskleurig wordt afgeschilderd?
En dat ze net doen, dat de situatie onder controle is, terwijl dat helemaal niet het geval is?

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Natuurlijk is de overheid corrupt, maar dat is van hoog tot laag.
Gisteren hield de president nog vol dat er maar ten hoogste 2500 doden waren.
Vandaag via rode kruis en andere hulpdiensten, meer dan 5000
Ik bedoel maar je moet alles met een korreltje (zak) zout nemen wat van de overheid afkomt.

Nog zo'n leuk verhaal, de vluchtelingen moesten verhuizen van de ene basis naar de andere
Reden; het hoofdwijf van de dswd had ruzie met vrouw van een generaal van de villamor basis.

Bautista said he was not aware of reports that there was bickering between the DSWD and the wives of the generals, which was the reason for the transfer of the evacuees from the Villamor Air Base.

"What is the real reason for the transfer...we do not know the details. We just provide a venue," he said.

TACLOBAN - The number of people dead or missing after one of the world's strongest typhoons struck the Philippines climbed towards 7,000 on Saturday, as the United Nations warned much more needed to be done to help desperate survivors.

The government's confirmed death toll rose to 5,235, with another 1,613 people still missing more than two weeks after Super Typhoon Haiyan destroyed entire towns across a long stretch of islands in the central Philippines.

Haiyan now rivals a 1976 tsunami on the southern island of Mindanao as the deadliest recorded natural disaster to strike the Philippines, which endures a never-ending battle against typhoons, earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions.

The typhoon has triggered a giant, international aid effort, with dozens of countries and relief organisations rushing to deliver food, water and health services to more than four million people who lost their homes.

However UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos, after visiting the disaster zones, warned the world was still not responding fast enough.

"Much more needs to be done. Food, clean water and shelter remain the top priorities," Amos said as a UN appeal for funds was raised from $301 million to $348 million.

Amos said huge numbers of people were still exposed to bad weather in the nine provinces ravaged by the storm, as she warned particularly of the dangers for babies, children and mothers.

"I am very concerned that some 1.5 million children are at risk of acute malnutrition and close to 800,000 pregnant and nursing mothers need nutritional help," Amos told a news conference at UN headquarters.

Survivors plead for more help

In the coastal city of Tacloban, one of the worst-hit areas where five-metre (16-feet) waves surged deep inland and destroyed most buildings, survivors continued to complain about a lack of help.

"There is no steady supply of relief goods. It comes in trickles," said Maribel Senase, 41, as she held a baby and her husband sawed wood near their shattered home.

Senase, who has four children, said her family had received rice, dried fish and sardines, but they remained hungry.

The World Bank on Friday added $480 million in emergency aid to the Philippines, taking its support to nearly $1 billion, in an effort to spur efforts to rebuild homes and infrastructure.

The Asian Development Bank also last week offered $500 million concessionary loans.

The US military has performed the highest-profile role in the relief effort, sending an aircraft carrier that arrived six days after the disaster which finally allowed relief supplies to start reaching isolated communities.

Japan also sent more than 1,000 troops aboard three vessels that arrived on Thursday night, in what is the biggest overseas deployment of the country's military since its defeat in World War II nearly 70 years ago.

China, which is embroiled in a long-running territorial dispute with the Philippines, dispatched a 300-bed hospital ship, while Australia, Britain and Indonesia are among many other nations to have also sent military support.

Death toll keeps climbing

The number of people confirmed killed jumped by nearly 1,200 on Friday to 5,209, as confirmed body counts were made in some flattened communities, the spokesman for the government's disaster management council, Reynaldo Balido, told AFP.

"If you notice, there was not much movement in the death toll for the past few days. This was because the reporting rules required a casualty report signed by the city mayor and his health officer," he told AFP on Friday night.

"Now, the reports are coming in from the entire typhoon area."

The death toll rose marginally again on Saturday morning, and was expected to continue rising over the coming days and weeks.

In Tacloban, the capital of Leyte province in the eastern Philippines, 1,727 people have been confirmed dead. Another 451 remain missing.

The typhoon on November 8 brought some of the strongest winds ever recorded and generated tsunami-like storm surges that flattened dozens of towns.

The magnitude of the disaster has continued to stun and overwhelm President Benigno Aquino's administration. A few days after Haiyan struck, Aquino said he expected the death toll would be between 2,000 and 2,500.

The Philippines is so prone to natural disasters because it is located along a typhoon belt and the so-called Ring of Fire, a vast Pacific Ocean region where many of Earth's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

But the only other natural disaster to compare with Haiyan for ferocity was the tsunami triggered by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in 1976 that killed between 5,000 and 8,000 people on Mindanao.

© 1994-2013 Agence France-Presse

[Hansy]

Ik ben bang, dat een paar mensen toch gelijk hebben, en dat hier sprake is van een scammer.
Gebruikmakend van de nood van vele bewoners van o.a. Leyte.

Ze zal een hoop integere landgenoten hier geen plezier mee doen.
Vooroordelen worden daardoor alleen maar bevestigd.

[gosternokke]

Hoe ben je overtuigd geraakt dat het toch een scammer betreft ?   Onlangs nog contakt met haar gehad via internet ? Vertel ....

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Is al uitgebeid op de tv hier.
Veel scammers op facebook en via telefoon.
Zelfs die kleine folders uitreiken in de mall met banknummers voor slachtofferhulp.
Zijn opgepakt en bleek hun eigen bankrekening.
Vragen om zenden 100php load om zg familie te zoeken.

Is echt heel erg om over andermans ellende geld te verdienen.
Maar ja het zijn hier nu eenmaal allemaal vies en smerig volk en dieven.
De goede uitgezonderd dan, maar die ben ik nog niet tegengekomen.

[josv]

Maar ja het zijn hier nu eenmaal allemaal vies en smerig volk en dieven.
De goede uitgezonderd dan, maar die ben ik nog niet tegengekomen.

Daags na de ramp kwam hier het bericht binnen dat "de zee zich had terug getrokken in sarangani" en "huizen langs de kust in Digos weg dreven".

Het zijn ook nog eens oerstomme dieven 

[Cosyns Guy]

Is al uitgebeid op de tv hier.
Veel scammers op facebook en via telefoon.
Zelfs die kleine folders uitreiken in de mall met banknummers voor slachtofferhulp.
Zijn opgepakt en bleek hun eigen bankrekening.
Vragen om zenden 100php load om zg familie te zoeken.

Is echt heel erg om over andermans ellende geld te verdienen.
Maar ja het zijn hier nu eenmaal allemaal vies en smerig volk en dieven.
De goede uitgezonderd dan, maar die ben ik nog niet tegengekomen.

Waarom ben je dan er met eentje gehuwd als je nog nooit een "goede" bent tegen gekomen vraag ik mij af....

[Hansy]

Hoe ben je overtuigd geraakt dat het toch een scammer betreft ?   Onlangs nog contakt met haar gehad via internet ? Vertel ....

Ze vroeg om geld.
Een gekke Henkie, die reeds na een paar dagen kontakt, zonder copie ID-kaart, zonder een check van adres en telefoonnummer, zonodig ook van familie, en zonder een FB-pagina o.i.d, etc., geld gaat sturen.

Is echt heel erg om over andermans ellende geld te verdienen.
Maar ja het zijn hier nu eenmaal allemaal vies en smerig volk en dieven.
De goede uitgezonderd dan, maar die ben ik nog niet tegengekomen.

Lol 

Ach, als het je zo met de paplepel is ingegoten, dan weet je niet anders.

In een aantal landen worden mensen nog steeds gestenigd, in Afrika worden mensen nog steeds levend verbrand, etc.

[Herbie]

Waarom ben je dan er met eentje gehuwd als je nog nooit een "goede" bent tegen gekomen vraag ik mij af....


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