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Te regional Department o Environ-ment and Natural Resources (DPWH) re-cently donated P3.2 million worth o logsto the Department o Education EasternSamar Division or the rehabilitation andrepair o school buildings that were dam-aged by Super yphoon Yolanda.

DENR Regional Executive DirectorLeonardo Sibbaluca said that EnvironmentSecretary Ramon Paje has mandated allDENR regional offices to prioritize donation

DENR-8 donateslogs for schoolrepairs in ES

REPAIR. Korean soldiers made a fast work in repairing the Leyte Provincial Hospital

buildings were destroyed by Yolanda. Doctor Ophelia Absin could not contain her gratitude

to the soldiers led by Captain Chu Wan Lee. (Photo by: TOTEX ARCUENO)

o confiscated orest products to educationdepartment or the repair o destroyedschool buildings and or constructiono chairs even beore the occurrence oyphoon Yolanda.

PENR Oicer Arturo N. Salazarreported that the donated logs o acacia,gemelina, mahogany and narra speciesconsisting o 117 pieces covered a total

C A M PKANGLEON, Palo,Leyte- The AustralianFederal Policedonated on February6 communicationequipment to thePolice Regional Ofce8 (PRO8) meantto advance policecapability in anti-crimeand disaster responseoperations.

We are verygrateful to theAustralian governmentfor this equipmentthat we can use forinstant communicationresulting in a quicker

Australian police donates PRO8

communications capabilityresponse time to crimeincidents and in times ofcalamities, said PoliceChief Supt. Henry P.Losaes, police regionaldirector.

Losaes personallyreceived one Motorolavery high frequency(VHF) base radio and30 handheld radiosfrom Col. Paul Hopkinsof the Australian policein a simple turn-overceremony at the PRO8conference room.

The policeofcial stressed theimportance of radioc o m m u n i c a t i o n s

especially duringdisasters like the visit ofsupertyphoon Yolandathat inundated theregion on November 8last year leaving morethan 6,000 dead andnearly 2,000 peoplemissing.

All communicationsystems in EasternVisayas went downafter Yolandas visitincluding telephone,mobile phones, internet,radio and televisionbroadcasts that totally

PALO, Leyte Authorities are still hunting35 of the 182 inmates involved in a jailbreakon January 30 from the storm-ravaged Leyteprovincial jail.

Provincial Jail Warden Maria Merle Bertulfosaid more policemen were deployed to the jailin Kauswagan village of this town followingthe daring jailbreak incident around 4:51 a.m.

Police and jail authorities arrested 147 ofthe 182 escapees after ve hours. Its hard torecapture others because they used their familymembers as human shields, Bertulfo toldreporters.

The jail management allowed specialarrangements for visitation of family membersas part of stress debrieng activity for detainees

182 prisoners

stages jail break

ONE MILLION COCONU FARMERS IN EV IN DISRESS.Aside rom the damaged houses, aestimated 33 million o coconut trees were severely destroyed or damaged in Eastern Visayas affectin

more than a million armers. Photo shows destroyed coconut trees and makeshifs in Marabut, Samar.(Photo by Ricky Bautista)

after the killer storm.Large numbers of

inmates managed toescape when guardsopened the gateto serve coffee forbreakfast. Damagedfacilities and slow

judicial process arethe two main reasonswhy inmates forciblyleft the jail.

Although we areinnocent, we havebeen detained formore than ve years.The court lost alltheir records due totyphoon and storm

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NEWS2 February 02-08, 2014

BUNK HOUSES. These rows of bunk houses located at Apitong area are now ready for occupancy

for typhoon victims. (Photo by: TOTEX ARCUENO)

INTERSOS to increase its

area of intervention to serve

more Yolanda victimsAn international

aid group helpingthe victims of supertyphoon Yolandavowed to increase itsarea of intervention onits bid to ensure thatmore victims couldavail of their food andnon-food services.

At present, theINTERSOS serve thepeople of Tacloban,Tanauan, Tolosa,Tabontabon and SantaFe, all in Leyte.

The groups assistantproject manager AljunDiaz said that it was inTanauan town that theyfrst visited distributingtents, tarpaulins, kitchensets and blankets to its858 families.

Also, the groupdonated a generatorset to the MSF Hospitaland local church;water treatment unitand other relateditems to Department

A United Nations official askednational and local government to addressbottlenecks that impedes recovery o

areas hit by supertyphoon Yolanda.Specifically, Luiza Carvalho , UN

Philippines humanitarian coordinatorofficial, asked authorities to work on ullrestoration o businesses, electricity andpublic transportation system.

We really need to see the secondaryneeds and analyze the bottlenecks thatare impeding us to achieve ull fledgedevelopment, she told reporters afermeeting national and local governmentofficials in acloban over the weekend.

Carvalho noted that theres toomuch ocus on issues on shelter, whichcannot be resolved immediately due toconcerns like land acquisition and sitedevelopment.

Tere are immediate things that wecan address and it will be a new universeo good results. Tis is something thatwe should find out collectively throughcoordination, she said.

Among this is the ull restorationo electric supply that will encouragebusinesses to reopen, thus allowing

Govt told to address bottlenecksin post-Yolanda recovery

displaced employees to return to work.Lets have a clear perspective o what we

want. We need the electricity set up so all

the commerce can go back again, Carvalhoadded.

As o third week o January, less than 200businesses have renewed their licenses o the15,000 registered businesses in acloban.Only 6,600 houses and businesses haveelectric connections, accounting 19% o thetotal pre-Yolanda operating establishments.

Carvalho also cited the deficiency inthe existing public transportation system.We need more buses and other publictransportation to take commuters backhome at night afer work, she noted.

Te super typhoon and storm surgehave destroyed jeepneys that transportsthousands o commuters to acloban romcoastal towns o Palo, anauan, olosa,Dulag and Mayorga.

Overall, the improvement in the cityis very positive. Te local people and thegovernment are doing their part. Its goodto see the city moving and to see the lightsat night although its not enough, Carvalhosaid. (SARWELL Q.MENIANO)

of Education, and alsoa tent to municipalgovernment of Tanauan.

In their educationalsupport, the INTERSOShas started its holisticeducation activities sothat the children cango back to school andcontinue learning whileteachers including otherindividuals involvedwith education, wouldbe confdent to supportchildren after Yolanda.

Our activities are

based on the principles ofsolidarity, justice, humandignity, equality of rightsand opportunities, andrespect for diversity andcoexistence (and) payingspecial attention to themost vulnerable andunprotected people,Diaz said.

Partnering withthe United NationsInternational ChildrensF u n d ( U n i c e f ) ,INTERSOS is working in

125 schools with 79,181students in Tacloban,Tanauan, Tolosa, Tabon-tabon and Santa Fein which they startedits massive Back-to-Learning campaign sothat children affectedby Yolanda will bemotivated to go back toreturn to school.

It also providedtraining for teachers andstaffs of the Departmentof Education onpsychosocial care for

children affected byYolanda and disasterrisk reduction (DRR)to smile again whilelearning how to avoid, orcope with, future risk bynatural disaster.

INTERSOS is alsoplanning to startits engagement forprotection, especiallychild protection area,Diaz said. (RYANGABRIEL LLOSAARCENAS

volume o 1,280 cubic me-ters.

Salazar said the logswere part o the plantedtrees cut along the Philip-pine National Road De-velopment Project romBorongan to Balangkayan,Eastern Samar.Tis is underthe coverage o CENRO inBorongan headed by CENROfficer Moises dela Cruz.

It was learned that inthe course o the ongoingroad development, treesthat are aected by thewidening o the road areproperly inventoried andaccounted or.

rees that were cutshould be properly uti-lized, hence the donationto DepEd, RED Sibbalucasaid as he underscored thatevery tree cut must be re-placed with 100 trees thatwill be planted in designat-ed areas.

Schools Division Su-perintendent Bernardo A.Adina personally receivedthe said orest productswhich are now stockpiledat the 534th EngineeringBrigade at Barangay Calin-gatngan and at the Citycompound in BarangayCampesao, Borongan.

Meanwhile, RED Sib-baluca called on the publicto help in protecting thestanding trees as it pursuesthe implementation o theNational Greening Programto replenish the trees that

were damaged due to y-phoon Yolanda. (PIA)

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surge and this willfurther delay theprocess, said ErwinCornejo, one of theinmates who joinedthe jailbreak.

Records of variouscases, to include thoseincarcerated at theLeyte Provincial Jail,were either damagedor washed out when

the Bulwagan ngKatarungan,whichhouses sevenregional trial courtbranches, duringthe supertyphoonYolanda.

Prisoners alsocomplaint of poorconditions of thefacility after the stormwrecked the complex.Some of its roong wasblown away by ercewind. Humanitarianorganizations donated

tents for shelter ofprisoners.The 35 inmates at

large are on top ofthe more than 100prisoners who haveyet to be recapturedafter they stormedout of the Leyteprovincial jail duringthe onslaught of supertyphoon Yolandanearly three monthsago.

Before the storm,the Leyte provincial

jail had 588 inmates.

Worried of thecondition of their

families, more than400 escaped theprison facility afterits roong was blownby the storm. Many ofthem returned afterchecking on theirrelatives.(SARWELLQ.MENIANO)

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Korean NGO donatesschool supplies to

Leyte studesACLOBAN CIY A Korea-based non-governmentorganization, the Korea Food or the Hungry International(KFHI) donated on uesday bulk o school supplies tostudents in Leyte towns.

In the morning o February 4, the Korean NGO donat-ed sacks o school materials to 15 schools in olosa townand proceeded shortly to the town o anauan and alsogave the same school items to some 45 schools.

In all, some 17, 300 students (rom pre-schoolers tohigh school levels) in both municipalities benefited theproject.

Dr. Sang Rok Suh o KFHI said many students in thetyphoon-affected communities didnt report to schoolswhen it re-opened last January 6 due to lack o schoolsupplies and non-availability in the local markets.

(And so), we bought some P6.92 million worth oback packs containing school supplies down to the stu-

dents in Leyte, Dr. Suh said adding that the KFHI arrivedin Leyte our days afer the typhoon devastated the islandand conducted emergency relie ood supply, health care,disease prevention, tent distribution and similar activities.

Earlier, the US Embassy in Manila also donated back-to-school educational materials to at least 100 schools inLeyte, including the cities o Ormoc and acloban.

o date, the KFHI now ocus on rebuilding schoolsand churches destroyed by the typhoon, Dr. Suh said.

Meanwhile, the acloban City Division Office re-

ceived last Monday some2,000 pieces o classroomchairs courtesy o the Pro-ject Recyclass, a nationwiderecycling campaign sup-ported by the Departmento Education.

Alex acderas o Mon-delez Philippines, one o theprime movers o the project,said that the project is anorganization o kids acrossthe country whose mainobjective was to protect theenvironment. One o theirvery irs t projects was tocollect oils and transormthem into chairs.

Mondelez is a businessenterprise helping childrenlook or a technology andcome up with a plan toconvert what they have col-lected into usable materials.Otherwise, oils would only

clog the water ways.acderas inormed thatinitially, their group onlythought o providing 2,000chairs in Metro Manila butthe oils they collected wereoverwhelming in number.Te 11 million pieces o oilsthey collected were trans-ormed into 10,000 chairs.

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February 02-08, 2014

Finding joyWE all know that we are meant to be happy. When

we are sad, or whatever reason, we know that it is notsupposed to be. And when that sadness is kind o stable,then we usually consider that situation as

illness.We have to learn how to find joy then, its true source,

the one that can be attained and elt whatever setting we

may find ourselves in. Joy should not be based only onsome shallow and shify ground, like our physical, emo-tional or social conditions. Tey are very unreliable oun-dations, and can be very dangerous.

Joy and happiness can only be ound in God. Tats orsure. He is the source o all good things, the creator andoundation o all reality. And when we mess up thingsthat obviously will lead us to

trouble and sadness, he it is who will fix things, healwhat is sick, repair what is damaged, recover what is lost.

Tis is a truth that needs to be emphasized again.Many have orgotten it, or worse, are ignorant o it. Es-pecially the young who obviously need to be properlytaught things, they easily all into a very restricted anddistorted understanding o joy, associating it with some

bodily pleasures, emotional highs, or avorable socialstanding.Many others have sourced it on the possession o good

health, wealth, ame, worldly power. Tis conception ojoy is notoriously biased and one-sided. It cannot standthe test o time with all its varied situations. It prospersonly during air weather, not in bad.

We need to go to God or find joy. As a psalm saysit very well, o be near God is my happiness. (72) Wehave to strengthen this conviction. Tose without Godwill surely perish and get destroyed sooner or later. Tatmuch the same psalm warns us.

And God is neither ar nor hidden nor ignorant. Tatsensation or attitude that we can sometimes have towardGod is at best apparent. Its alse and without basis, since

the truth is that God is at the very core o our lie. And iwe have aith we can actually see him everywhere. Andwe know he is a ather who always cares or us.

We just have to little by little level up with the realitythat governs us, a reality that is not ruled only by physi-cal laws but also and most especially by spiritual, moraland supernatural laws, that is to say, by aith, hope andcharity.

Religion has to come in or us to find happiness notonly later but also even now and always. We just cannotallow ourselves to be dependent on some purely humanand worldly conditions or this. Our lie and everythingin it has dimensions that go beyond the purely humanand worldly. We have to go to God.

Especially when we meet difficulties, problems, mis-

eries and ailures in our lie, we have to learn to find Godto be able to find joy in these situations. In this regard, itmight be useul to be reminded o what St. Peter said inhis letter.

Christ suffered or you, and lef you an example tohave you ollow in his ootsteps. He did no wrong, nodeceit was ound in his mouth. When he was insulted, hereturned no insult. When he was made to

suffer, he did not counter with threats.Instead, he delivered himsel up to the One who

judges justly. In his own body He brought your sins tothe cross, so that all o us, dead to sin, could live in accordwith Gods will. By his wounds you were healed. (1 Pt 2)

Its good to go over these words many times and touchbase with their true meaning, substance and purpose, or

in them is spelled the ormula we need to live to find joy

Poverty

Hunger

When poverty is most advisableHERES, o course, agood and a bad poverty.Te bad one is commonand obvious enough tosee, and we have everyright and duty to elimi-nate it. It comes in manyorms, like widespreadhunger, systemic illiter-acy and ignorance, mas-

sive conusion and unemployment, slow-growingand ailing economy, etc.

But theres also a good poverty, the kind that issupposed to be lived by everyone, and especiallyby the rich, amous and powerul who are actuallymost vulnerable to the worst kind o poverty. Unor-tunately, this good one is practically the exceptionrather than the rule nowadays.

Tis good poverty, this poverty o spirit means agreat hunger or God, since the worst poverty is tobe without God, the source o all good things in lie

here and hereafer. Our need or God ar outweighsour need or any material and earthly thingmon-ey, ame, power.

Tis poverty o spirit, this great hunger or Godis thereore most advisable especially or those inpositions where temptations to orget God and tosimply be at the mercy o the allurements o worldlythings abound. In act, it is not only advisable. It isnecessary.

Tis is the case o the rich, popular and powerul

peoplepoliticians, tycoons, celebrities, artists, etc.,who, as we have been seeing and hearing lately, areinvolved in the most heinous kind o corruption andsel-enrichment.

While you would think that since they alreadyhave much money, ame and power, they would al-ready be contented, the evidence at hand, however,presents the opposite. Tey crave or more. Teirlust or more becomes so sordid they look addictedor possessed by some demons.

Tey start to see things very differently. What wasblack and white beore now becomes a crazy mix oborderless colors. Tere are those who are so smartand clever that they can cover their greed or sometime. But they themselves know it is only a mattero time beore things explode.

We need to develop in a more determined waythis good kind o poverty. We cannot take this needor granted anymore. We have to act on it with urgen-cy to make it second nature to us and a unctioningculture to all.

And its first o all a matter o reconciling ourselves

with God. Without that, without our conversion, theresno way we can truly live this good kind o poverty thatactually enriches us in the proper way.

One main problem here is that widespread bias thatputs God out o the picture, or at least, he is put in themargins, in our affairs with money, ame and power. Tisattitudinal barrier has to be smashed.

Sad to say, this dangerous mindset can even afflictChurch people who, like Judas, can appear to be withGod when in act they are not. Judas helped himsel tothe common und, and that must have contributed to hisbetraying Christ.

Everyone has to examine his conscience to see ihis mind and heart are so in love with God that they arewilling to be detached rom earthly things so as to bewith God alone. For with God, we would already haveeverything in their right proportion.

her thing that is hardly known, let alone, understood

by many peoplehow to blend the human principle othe universal destination and distribution o goods withthe right to private ownership. (Editorial courtesy o Fr.Roy Cimagala)

isolated the region from the rest of the world.We relied on radio communications that

time to gather and give instructions to ourmen, the police ofcial recalled.

He added that the equipment will alsobe used in special police operations, like

the campaign against illegal drugs andother criminal elements. (PINSP ROMUELNACAR, PIO PRO8)

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