Typhoon Goni has been rate as the world’s strongest typhoon of and the second strongest in the. Super Typhoon Goni Philippines since Haiyan in , as it has left widespread destruction wherever it has passe especially in the Bicol region, one of the largest islands in the Philippines where we have been working for more than years. The passage of this natural phenomenon has affecte more than a million people throughout the country in addition to causing damage to thousands of homes in its path, damaging infrastructure and the agricultural sector with damages that are quantifie at more than million dollars. according to the latest government data. Shiena Base, one of the people who is leading our response to the emergency that we are carrying out in the country, and who has experience the passage of the typhoon firsthand, assures that this year is going to be the worst for most of the schoolchildren in the areas most affecte by Goni. “It has been less than a month since online classes resume amid the COVID- pandemic. The children are left with nothing again.
What do we do in this emergency
Since last week we have been distributing basic necessities to the most affected families that include hygiene and sanitation materials such as soap, detergent, toothpaste and toothbrush to ensure that children and their families are well protected against COVID- and other infections. We are also distributing blankets, towels, underwear and sanitary pads to Netherlands WhatsApp Number Data women and teenage girls who need them. FIL-Tifon_Goni_Philippines-JPG Immediately after the typhoon made landfall, we sent an NGO team to assess the damage it had caused, especially in the areas most affected by Goni, including Albay, Camarines Sur and Catanduanes. Our director of Educo in the Philippines, Olga Rodríguez, who is also in the affected area, warns of the magnitude of the disaster because it seems that it is raining in the wet : “We have to understand that this super typhoon unleashed all its force on some of the poorest communities in The Philippines, in the middle of a pandemic no less.
The passage of the typhoon in first person
Angela and her family have received one of the emergency batches. She live with her mother, her two younger brothers, her uncle and her grandfather in. Guinobatan before Super Typhoon Goni reache her city. She wante to continue studying, but the pandemic made them decide to skip this school year. On November , she and her family were about to Canada WhatsApp Number List evacuate her house and began. To prepare their belongings so they could move to the evacuation center, but they did not have time. “My grandmother call us and aske us to leave, as the water was already beginning to gush in our area. But the door was blocke by large pieces of wood, so we went up. I was with my mother and two brothers at the time. When the water rose, we decide to go up to the roof and held on to a rope. My mother was carrying my two-year-old sister. Some people helpe us, but it took a while. Then they took us to another house, and we slept there.
