Our first repair team just returned from the city of Ormoc in Leyte. It was hit with the same wind intensity as Tocloban City minus the storm surge and is the location for one of IDEA’s deaf schools. The team spent a week there putting roofs back on our dormitory and classrooms. Below is a […]
Living under tarps Days turn into weeks and weeks into months and families are still living under tarps trying to make life work. Living out in the elements, cooking outside, no electricity, no running water no bathroom facilities huddled together with extended family members they are finding ways to make life work in the
The Department of Education engineers have declared the concrete classrooms formerly occupied by our deaf children to be unsafe to occupy in Loon. There was little choice but to set up an IDEA provided classroom tent. Luck for us, we had a large two pole, circus type tent that worked out perfectly. The kids and
I saw the government damage statisics yesterday for Bohol from the quake and it reported 78,000 damaged structures and 6,800 homes totally destroyed. Many of the people who lost their home to the quake are living in tents so the time is NOW to get emergency housing to them. That is EXACTLY what IDEA is
Housing Site needing cleared Housing panels are stacked up in the back and covered with tarps waiting for their final destination. We are now in the process of assessing the sites where they will be set up. Each site poses its own set of difficulties. Some need a wall or two other need complete demolition
Less than ONE month after the devastating earthquake that shattered Bohol, typhoon Haiyan slammed into Leyte in the central Philippines.
Leyte Island Association for the Deaf would not have been born and cared for without the support of IDEA. Through the partnership, IDEA is supporting about 149 deaf children through four elementary schools and one high school. It is because of IDEA that the deaf children in its funded programs have the chance for a
In less than one minutes on October 15th, the quaint tropical island of Bohol was set back 20 years in development by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent 1000 plus aftershocks.
IDEA Philippines is so blessed to have visitors come from all over the world to share their gifts and talents with our deaf students. Atena with students at Loon Recently we had a group of young adults come from America for a visit. Two of the individuals, Kristi Trickett and Peter Nguyen had
It has been a long time dream to move the IDEA shop work out from the shacks and tents that currently house it. The raising of the trusses on the new shop building is finally happening but in a way that is pretty amazing to those from developed nations like the U.S. In the States
