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Typhoon Haiyan
Super storm hits close to home
An Aldergrove nanny’s thoughts are with loved ones left homeless in the Philippines by Typhoon Haiyan.
Aldergrove resident Ana Maria Makiling uses her laptop to keep up-to-date with the news about the effects of Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated Makling’s homeland of the Philippines. Troy Landreville/Langley Advance
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Sitting at a kitchen table in Aldergrove, Ana Maria Makiling translated the words of anguished voices emanating from her laptop. The 39-year-old live-in nanny spoke softly as she viewed news reports about the devastation left by Typhoon Haiyan, which laid waste to her homeland of the View Philippines on Nov. 8. video “Four days without food and with drinking water… corpses on the street… kids crying for food,” men and women cried to the or online world through news cameras. Many made desperate pleas for food, water, and medical supplies. Makiling’s entire family has been left homeless from a said the organization is surveying typhoon that throttled the islands the affected area to determine the and their inhabitants. most effective way to deliver food According to the National and supplies to victims. Disaster Risk Reduction and “In the Philippines we have Management Council (NDRMC), been always on the front lines the death toll had reached 2,344 with 3,804 injured as of 9:30 a.m. whenever there has been a natural disaster,” he said. PST Wednesday. Thoughts of her mom and However, a report disputed by two sisters, four nieces, and two Philippines President Benigno nephews stay with Makiling. Her Aquino III has an estimated loved ones are now left without 10,000 dead in Tacloban, the larfood or permanent shelter. The gest city in Leyte province. typhoon And the worst is believed to slammed their come, with many village on more casualBiliran Island. ties expected. Sea water rose To date, 15 metres, 530,704 people Makiling said, have been adding that left homeless the strong by the super wind put her storm, including family memMakiling’s mom nce /Langley Adva bers’ lives in Resurreccion and Troy Landreville s, peril. younger sisters er st si o tw , ng’s mom ili ak M “I can help Rosie and Lucy. ft ia le ar en M Ana ve be d nephews ha which left a them only Helplessness an es ec ni d an n, by helping envelops Makiling, typhoon Haiya homeless by ion in its wake. here, volunwho has lived ct ru st de of l trai teering here in the Lower by solicitation, and prayers,” Mainland for the Makiling said. “The situation past 10 months. in Biliran is lots of people are She is doing what she can homeless, roofs have been totally to raise donations for the vicblown, [including] the hospital’s tims through the Filipino charroof. In Biliran Island, luckily ity Children’s Joy Foundation (CJF), which has a goal is to help there have only been five casualties.” feed, clothe, shelter and send to Makiling said she feels “pity school three million children in for those people in our place [the the Philippines. CJF has existed Philippines].” for 15 years in the Philippines Schools were affected by the and started this past January in strong winds, injuring children, Canada. she added. CJF volunteer Dindo Maquiling
According to the NDRMC, the Even if she personally sent typhoon is the most violent to money to family members, hit in the Philippines in the last Makiling said they likely wouldn’t decade. be able to receive it. Most of the areas affected have “All the roads are blocked by been without power since Nov. trees, [and] some places are iso7, and communication facilities lated,” she said. have been also severely impactIt will take many months to ed, according to Maquiling. rebuild, especially in Tacloban, Maquiling, who moved to according to Makiling, who Canada from the Philippines eight believes the Filipino people’s years ago at 42, said the CJF has resolve is being tested. been going “all out” in Canada, “They really need counselling trying to gather donabecause they are traumatized,” tions for the people she said. in his homeland. CJF volun“It’s very, very teers were at painful to see the Aldergrove what’s going on in Save-On-Foods the country right Wednesday and now,” he said. are back there Makiling, meantoday (Thursday, while, spoke to her Nov. 14), asksister Lucy on the ing the public for phone Sunday. donations for the “She had to cause. walk three hours CJF in the Troy Landreville /Langley Adva just to get a Philippines is buynce Children’s Joy Fo signal, because ing food which is volunteer Din undation do Maquiling there was no being transported said it’s very pain ful electricity,” to the hungry in the happening in to see what’s the Philippines Makiling said. devastated cities of . “She was really Biliran, Ormoc City, crying and I heard her kids and Tacloban. crying, too, because they had no To donate or give support, call Maquiling at 778-926-1435 or food. It’s hard because it’s my email him at cjfSurrey@gmail. family and I there is nothing I com. can do.” “The one thing you can be People are sharing food to give assured of, with the Children’s to the children. Joy Foundation, all of our funds According to Makiling, adults go directly to [the people] are using coconuts for soup and because we don’t pay anyone,” other sustenance. Maquiling said. “We are all vol“They survive, but it’s in a unteers.” hard way,” she said.