Losing your home is catastrophic for any family. For families with school children it is even worse. Where to do the home work? How to follow the teaching with no sleep and no place to eat? Fortunately, school breaks over Christmas. For two weeks everybody focussed on clearing out the rubble and cleaning up
The Castro Family in front of their burnt out house
In total, 16 families with children in the Bless the Children Program or Don Bosco were affected. For the first few weeks they took shelter at the Tondo Evacuation Center. With the delivery of the construction material, they can return to their homes.
The Minerales Family.
We supplied the families with corrugated sheets and steel bars to build new roofs, cement blocks, cement and sand and last but not least electrical equipment and lumber to make a home again. The rebuilding costs amount to PhP 65'000 per home which is equivalent to USD 13'000.-
The destroyed home of the Caber Family
Luckily, most home owners are builders and able to do the repairs themselves quickly.
The Manicat Family
Below is a PdF made by Bless the Children which shows the distribution of the building materials last week
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