I joined the “Worldwide Walk for
Yolanda Victims” February last year. I remember getting a shirt stamped for
the “cause”. I still have it in my
drawer. But my two hundred fifty pesos (as I remember paying) did not only left
me a shirt to remember but it had helped BIG to those who were really
unfortunate that mournful moment of their lives.
The Walk spearheaded by Iglesia ni Cristo did not only gave new
and sturdy homes to the victims of the terrible typhoon but has brought new
life and REAL NEW beginning to the beneficiaries NOT limited to church members
alone.
The homes are livable – there is water, electricity, safe walls and
above all there is something inside the community that gives them long-term
relief not just for days, weeks or months but probably for a lifetime – farming
tools with the necessary techniques (through seminars just as what has been
provided in Agusan resettlement –even invited foreign experts to teach latest
technology on farming) and equipment; dried fish factory; garment factory—
sewing training with pay and employment later on, I was told by a friend who is
employed in the same Nueva Ecija resettlement Unlad Garment Factory too. Those will surely give new life and hope to
the unfortunate victims of the catastrophe.