Enrique ona md8/8/2023 ![]() Instead, with income earned from working they can feed their families and avoid exploitation. We are using those funds to combat trafficking and slavery through livelhood opportunities, to purchase at least six sewing machines and looms to create entrepreneurial co-ops to make traditional weaving and clothing for a total of at least 30 women. In the case, our partners are One World Institute of Califonia and the Mindanao region and the Mindanao Women's Commision, Inc. Instead, we are practicing the art of leveraging funds and sharing with partners who can maximize the impact of the funding. To purchase food or bottles of water with that amount of cash would be like a speck of sand on a large beach. Between September and November 2013 GlobalGiving individual donors sent AAI $715 dollars for our Typhoon Bopha relief program. Women and children survivors of the storms and man-made disasters in the Philippines from Cebu in Visayas in the central region down to Zamboanga in the deep south are facing an additional serious danger - human trafficking and slavery.Īs a community-focused organization, we believe solutions can be achieved by many modest organizations working in partnership. But we have also seen the worst elements of human nature. We have seen wonderful examples of human kindness and unselfish teamwork. They have been mostly forgotten becauses of the scope of Super Typhoon Haiyan, where more than 11 million people are without adequate shelter, including 6 million who face severe nutrition shortages and clean potable water. More than 1 million survivors of Typhoon Bopha in the Davao area still without stable houses or stable jobs. ![]() We realize the shortcomings of official agencies but rather than complain, we are trying to set good examples of cost-effective service. For organizations such as Asia America Initiative who are working in multiple hardship areas, we are doing everything possible to stretch every dollar or peso from our compassionate GlobalGiving partners. The lack of resources for humanitarian organizations working in the Philippines is a growing crisis. Thank you and may God bless you for for your contunued support.Īssisting Bopha survivors in Jade Valley, Davao And we seek your support in the coming weeks and months. We are grateful for the compassion and generosity you have generated. Clean water and sanitation are simple but remakably needed in schools that have no such essentials for life. Our goal is to keep the hot sun or heavy rain off of the school children so they can learn. Schools re-open the first week of June, even if they are merely tents or pieces of plastic or cloth tarp with hand-crafted wooden benches made from driftwood. We urgently seek your support as the new typhoon season for 2014 officially begins in mid-May - just 6 weeks from now. But there is still much to be done.Įvery donation matters. Thanks to donors from Global Giving and schools in the United States, we have been able to distribute close to 100,000 new textbooks across the typhoon zones. Food is hard to find and clean water and hygiene are virtually non-existent.Ī number of international organizations such as the Red Cross and smaller organizations like Asia America Initiative are trying our best, but face a desperate shortage of funds and other resources as our many youth volunteers saeek to provide aid to diminsh the suffering of women, children, the elderly and men.Īsia America Initiative have been also providing school books and readers to assist elmentary school and high school students to maintain basic education. In areas near the eastern Mindanao of Davo, tens of of thousands of families remain homelss and are threatened by floods and mudslides. Heavy rains, floods and mudslides continue to davastate many areas of Mindanao and Visayas in the Philippines. AAI volunteers packing donated school books
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