Get ready to collect…

Don’t touch anyone!

Peso values

Money bag = 100,000

Yellow = 100

White = 10

Poor Middle-Class Wealthy

Basic wooden house (limited electricity) 

Bike  Cell phone

  Low paid or no job

  Basic wooden fishing

boat to collect food 

Some medical services/ no health insurance

  Primary education/some

secondary education 

Shared toilets within the community

  Shared water wells Note: you have no insurance, no remittances, no social security or government funded benefits. 

Strong house

Second hand car

Reasonably paid job

TV

Computer

Can afford most medical expenses

Have some insurance

Remittances (money) received from family overseas

Access to primary, secondary and tertiary education

Access to clean water, private toilets and food

 

• Strong concrete house

Modern/new car

Well-paid job / business owner

TV, computer, radio, ipad

Cell phone

Nice clothes

Overseas holidays

Maid

Nanny

Can meet all medical expenses

Extensive home, contents and health insurance

Private education including primary, secondary and tertiary.

Access to clean water, private toilets and food

 

Typhoon Haiyan, 8th of November 2013

A few stories from the ground…

How are the wealthy affected?

… and the middle-class?

What about the extremely poor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r2bC8d2Cxc&list=PLxOwILckuSEXMJOfeppdM4vn6ryln1Htz

The Leban’s Story

Poor Middle Class Wealthy  House destroyed P1000

  Cost of tarpaulin for

temporary shelter P50  

Boat destroyed P200 

Community sanitation system damaged. Need to purchase anti-septic liquid and buckets. P80  

Community water supply damaged. Need to purchase safe drinking water for a week. P200 

Medical fees from family members physically injured from debris during the typhoon (no health insurance) P800  

Funeral costs P850 

Damage to the exterior of the house P2500 (You pay excess of P500) 

Damage to garden P300 (You pay excess of P100)  

Loss of wages P500 

Childcare costs: P1000  

Cost of contacting relatives: P20 

Contaminated water supply means you need to purchase bottled water for several days: P200  

You have some food supplies in your cupboards. You buy some food. P100 

Minor damage to the exterior of the house P1000 (covered by insurance) 

Damage to garden P200 (covered by insurance)  

Phone calls to overseas relatives who are concerned P20 

Increased childcare P1000  

Need to replace contaminated water supply with bottled water for several days. P200 

Power is down but you can run your own generator for 2 weeks. P250  

You have food supplies for two weeks in your cupboards. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGwuq7IVmF0

Caritas in the Philippines

The first step is Relief

Distributing emergency food supplies…

…cleaning things (soap, toothpaste, etc.)

…materials for building temporary shelters

…transporting supplies to remote places

The second phase is called Recovery

The goal is to ‘build back better’

…employing local people and materials

Coconut palms felled by the storm become the building materials for new houses

These houses are built on a hillside, so they will not get flooded out again

Veges are planted to feed families and sell

Livelihoods (like fishing) are re-established

These women make super-hot chilli powder

Safe water supply is re-established…

…so life can start returning to normal again