The devastation brought by Haiyan/Yolanda typhoon in the Philippineshad affected the lives of the Filipinos.A lot of people lost their families and shelters, water and food outage began to aggravate people’s lives. But despite of the calamity Filipino people once again remain resilient.

The 5th Land fall of Haiyan/Yolanda typhoon landed in the northern part of Ilo-Ilo and the rest of Panay Island which includes the Concepcion and the rest of the Cities & Municipalities. The devastation in People’s lives were somehow relieved because a lot ofpeople responded and helped them recover from this unimaginable calamity.

One of the strongest typhoon in the History

Church

Due to the calamity the central elementary school of Concepcion were pre occupied and became one the evacuation centers of the Municipality where most people from the remote areas evacuatedduring the typhoon.

Evacuation Center…

Central Elementary School…

After the typhoon some roads are not passable and it took days to clear the roads…

Rice crops has been devastated, one of the source of living in Concepcion aside from fishing…

Near fishing port and nearby establishments and houses…

Public plaza gymnasium and nearby houses…

The Municipal Hall of Concepcion..

Open court gym…

Huge trees was uprooted

Public places…

Concepcion after typhoon yolanda…

Please HELP Concepcion…

Please HELP Concepcion…

The Following images are the affected municipalities.

The Fishing Port

Preparation of Relief Goods

Sack of Brown Sugar

Sack of Rice

The Volunteers

Repacking day & night

The following are the list of the Municipalities and the number of households whom fortunately received the relief goods.On the next slides are the images takenduring the relief operations.

MUNICIPALITY HOUSE HOLDS

LO-ONG 150

ARCOSA ST. POBLACION 66

BATITI 17 PUNTA LUIS

140ULPOK 30

Here are some of the images during the relief operations…

People of Concepcion are very happy because they don’t need to line up in a very long line under the heat of the sun just to have a relief good. We did a house to house visit to deliver the food to the community.

A lot of International and Local Organizations joined hand in hand to alleviate the burden and hunger of Filipinos who are greatly affected by the Typhoon.

In my behalf the people of Concepcion would like to extend their warm gratitude to the People who made this relief operation possible most specially to Helping Hands International (thru the kindness of Deepika Bindra). Special thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Untereiner and to Nuance group (head office).

Thanks to the following people:

Alex Anson-Esparza Adrea Belc-Cupsan

Anna Kurmann Daniela Gavino

Dewi Jörger Dorothèe Laming

Elsbeth Willi Hoi Hoi Chin-May and

Family Juliane Strauss

Kevin Baker

Lorenz Asch Mei Keller

Piroschka Maranda Rikke Gubler-Nielsen Shelley Fischer-Chan Swee Lean Lim Ong Theodora Desinioti Valèrie Proudhon Vincenzo Meone