130k Yolanda survivors still living in tents

[lordna]

MANILA, Philippines – Up to 130,000 survivors of Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) still live in tents nearly 5 months after Yolanda left more than 4.37 million Filipinos homeless, Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman said.

This number, equivalent to around 28,000 families, is more than half the population of Tacloban in Leyte, the city worst hit by Yolanda. It is also twice the number of people in badly hit Palo town in Leyte.

"Ito po 'yung pinakamalaking hamon na aming nakikita," Soliman said in a media briefing Thursday, April 3. (This is the biggest challenge we see.)

For Yolanda survivors in tents, she said the government hopes to finish “various forms” of transitional shelters by June.
Soliman said these transitional shelters will meet international standards. She made this promise after the government in January faced criticism over substandard bunkhouses, which serve as transitional shelters.

The work of helping homeless Yolanda survivors, however, doesn't end with bunkhouses.

Once affected residents move into transitional shelters, they will have to stay there for up to two years. The government plans to finish building permanent, hopefully sturdier houses by 2015.

Until then, they will have to face other storms while in transitional shelters.

Next week alone, for instance, the Philippine government is anticipating a possibly strong typhoon to hit Yolanda-hit communities.

The development chief of the United Nations, Helen Clark, said moving Yolanda survivors into decent shelters remains a “compelling need.”

Most of the homeless Yolanda survivors can be found in Western Visayas, not in Eastern Visayas, as is commonly perceived.

http://www.rappler.com/nation/54687-yolanda-haiyan-survivors-tents-dswd

[Michael Parnham]

Hope they do get proper houses built, but I doubt it because the money that was contributed by many people from all over the world will have disappeared and it's just not right!:Erm:

[fred]

Hope they do get proper houses built, but I doubt it because the money that was contributed by many people from all over the world will have disappeared and it's just not right!:Erm:

The Philippines are saying that most of the pledged cash has not been received..
If I find a link,I`ll post it.

[gWaPito]

Only 20% Of Cash Pledged to the Philippines After Yolanda Has Been Received — a Measly $12M
Can these numbers be real? They don’t seem right. If this is true it’s very, very disturbing.


Rappler and other outlets are reporting that two months after Typhoon Yolanda (International Name Haiyan) ripped through the PHilippines, international promises of aid are failing to materialize, with only 21% of the cash that was promised actually reaching the Philippines. This is a pattern that mimics what happened in Haiti, where years after the earthquake, only a little more than 50% of the pledged cash has been received.


The Philippines’ Foreign Aid Transparency Hub (FAITH) says the international community pledged P2.8 billion ($63.418 million) in cash and P20.998 billion ($475.56 million) in non-cash items. Of the cash pledges, the country has received P592.58 million ($12.337 million). That’s only 21.16% of the money vowed by the rest of the world.


Folks, think about those numbers. Only $12M in cash has been received. That’s about 1/10 of what it takes to make one studio movie.
“What we heard them say at the height of the Yolanda relief operations versus what you see them now delivering by way of cash, there’s a big disparity,” Budget Secretary Butch Abad said.
Very upsetting stuff, but can’t say I’m surprised.

http://www.michaeldsellers.com/blog/2014/01/16/only-20-of-cash-pledged-to-the-philippines-after-yolanda-has-been-received-a-measly-12m/