Tacloban children need urgent help

Tacloban has been devastated. Children are the worst victim. They need food, shelter, and therapy to come out of this one of the biggest calamities world has seen.

"No building in the coastal city of 200,000 residents appears to have escaped damage from Super Typhoon Haiyan. Most roads were impassable Saturday; all communications except for satellite phones were down; medical supplies, food and water were scarce; and there were reports of looting. And that was far from the worst of it," this is how CNN describes the situation in the aftermath of the devastation in Tacloban in the Philippines.

Death toll likely exceeds 10,000.

SOS Children's Village in Tacloban also fell victim to the onslaught but the children and families were rescued on time. In the 46 years of presence in the country, SOS Children's Villages Philippines that has been providing family-based care to Filipino children in need never saw such massive devastation. SOS Children's Village Tacloban suffered great damage.

"Like a Noah's Ark!" This is how Ms. Emily Torculas, Village Director of SOS Calbayog, described the situation of SOS Children's Village Tacloban when she and her team arrived there. Children were safely took refuge at the rooftops of the Family Houses together with their SOS mothers and co-workers. But the surroundings were in ravage state, mud all over the place with unidentified dead bodies in some areas.
People who had walked, sometimes for hours, to the relief station at the Tacloban airport told stories of the human cost.

Please send your donations to our National Office in Mindanao Drive, Ayala Alabang Village, Muntinlupa. You can also deposit your monetary donations in any BPI Branch. Kindly place donations under Account Name SOS CHILDREN’S VILLAGES INC. with Account Number: 8293-0178-41. Please do not forget to send a copy of the deposit slip through fax number 850-9654 for proper acknowledgment.

For more inquiries, please contact MS. ALEAH B. ORTIZ at 807-0764, 799-3475, 0917-8520189 or email her at: home@sosphilippines.org  or aleah.ortiz@sosphilippines.org