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You Are Not Alone - A Grassroots Aid Project For The Philippines
A project from U Are Not Alone in Tabon Island, Philippines
A Grassroots aid and reconstruction project for the Philippines, driven by volunteers, embedded in a multimedia project that is designed to generate awareness of the situation in the Philippines as well as additional project funding.
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L. Weber from U Are Not Alone is responsible for this project
When Typhoon Haiyan arrived in the Philippines on Nov. 7, 2013, it tore through the central parts of the country with winds exceeding 195 mph, the strongest winds ever recorded in a tropical storm at landfall. Haiyan unleashed its wrath on five major and numerous smaller islands, killing over 6,100 Filipinos, injuring tens of thousands more, destroying the homes of 1.5 million people and badly damaging the homes of another 3 million. In total, somewhere around 15 million Filipinos are estimated to have been seriously affected by the storm.
In the days following the typhoon, it became clear that the Philippine government was overwhelmed by the massive scale of the catastrophe. International emergency relief efforts were launched, led by the navies of numerous nations and by large NGOs. Journalists from all over the world flocked to the most badly damaged areas and reports of great tragedy traveled across the world’s airwaves and data streams. Now, however, a mere few months after the arrival of the most devastating storm ever to make landfall, the topic is disappearing from international headlines, falling victim to the hectic, often sensationalist news cycle. So, while many Philippine towns and islands have, even now, only received minor relief and reconstruction aid or none at all, and the UN warns that the Typhoon Haiyan tragedy is perilously close to becoming the forgotten catastrophe, the topic slips from global awareness.
Driven by the desire to provide concrete, direct, and sustainable relief and reconstruction aid to the Filipino people, a blogger, a film-maker, and two photographers decide to launch a grassroots-driven aid project, volunteer months of their time and work to collect relief funds, travel to the Philippines, and spend the relief funds on location, thus personally ensuring that they have maximum impact.
In order to combat the forgetfulness of the news cycle they decide to document the relief effort via a multimedia project that will allow aid donors to be directly connected and ensure that aid recipients have a voice. During a two month time period, aid will be provided in regions where little aid has arrived; roofs will be rebuilt, emergency shelters will be constructed, fishing boats replaced and repaired, school supplies and urgently needed food and medicines provided. The entire effort will be documented on a blog with regular illustrated blog updates and video clips, in which the affected Filipinos tell their stories and the relief efforts are shown. This will allow aid donors to see just how significantly their generosity is helping people and how even a little aid can go a long way:
A mere seven dollar donation will provide enough food for a Filipino family of four to survive one week.
100 dollars can buy the materials needed to repair a destroyed roof on a family home.
A few hundred dollars will provide enough material to buy a small fishing boat, thus providing income for an entire family.
In the days following the typhoon, it became clear that the Philippine government was overwhelmed by the massive scale of the catastrophe. International emergency relief efforts were launched, led by the navies of numerous nations and by large NGOs. Journalists from all over the world flocked to the most badly damaged areas and reports of great tragedy traveled across the world’s airwaves and data streams. Now, however, a mere few months after the arrival of the most devastating storm ever to make landfall, the topic is disappearing from international headlines, falling victim to the hectic, often sensationalist news cycle. So, while many Philippine towns and islands have, even now, only received minor relief and reconstruction aid or none at all, and the UN warns that the Typhoon Haiyan tragedy is perilously close to becoming the forgotten catastrophe, the topic slips from global awareness.
Driven by the desire to provide concrete, direct, and sustainable relief and reconstruction aid to the Filipino people, a blogger, a film-maker, and two photographers decide to launch a grassroots-driven aid project, volunteer months of their time and work to collect relief funds, travel to the Philippines, and spend the relief funds on location, thus personally ensuring that they have maximum impact.
In order to combat the forgetfulness of the news cycle they decide to document the relief effort via a multimedia project that will allow aid donors to be directly connected and ensure that aid recipients have a voice. During a two month time period, aid will be provided in regions where little aid has arrived; roofs will be rebuilt, emergency shelters will be constructed, fishing boats replaced and repaired, school supplies and urgently needed food and medicines provided. The entire effort will be documented on a blog with regular illustrated blog updates and video clips, in which the affected Filipinos tell their stories and the relief efforts are shown. This will allow aid donors to see just how significantly their generosity is helping people and how even a little aid can go a long way:
A mere seven dollar donation will provide enough food for a Filipino family of four to survive one week.
100 dollars can buy the materials needed to repair a destroyed roof on a family home.
A few hundred dollars will provide enough material to buy a small fishing boat, thus providing income for an entire family.
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