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It is almost a month since 'Typhoon Sendong' devastated Cagayan De Oro City with catastrophic flash floods that killed over 2000 people and destroyed thousands of houses.Still many thousands of people are homeless. Many are still staying in schools, basketball courts and other public buildings. At a number of locations large 'Tent-Cities' have been set up with tents provided by Shelter Box

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T.C.R.C.T trustee Jo Conroy, who is also logistics manager at Aid to Hospitals Worldwide, with some of the boxes of aid to be shipped to the Phillipines Local Newspaper for West Suffolk, The Bury Free Press has covered the story of our efforts to provide relief to flood victims in Cagayan De Oro City appealing for it's readership to contribute tins of food and blankets as well as money to

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A whole community of shanty housesonce stood here now reduced to rubble and debris. A huge thank you to our supporters who have, so far, contributed more than £3500 to enable us to respond to the tragic flooding in Cagayan De Oro City caused by Tropical Storm 'Sendong' (international name Typhoon Washi. This money has been passed on to our local agents who have been out most days feeding up

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Distributing bags of groceries Today BBC Radio Suffolk interviewed Mary Rendon live via telephone to get the latest situation on the flood disaster in Cagayan De Oro City. You can hear the interview by clicking on the podcast player below. Podcast Powered By Podbean Donations for the flood relief effort may be made via the Paypal button on this blog page Lots

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Parts of Cagayan De Oro City have been devastated by flash floods in recent days due to torrential rains associated with 'Hurricane Sendong' which struck the Philippines last Friday. Video footage and newspaper articles can be found here. One sad case we have heard of where a mother and father had their only child snatched out of their arms by the flood waters just as they were being rescued.

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For all the latest news and photos of the House of Joshua check out our Autumn 2011 Newsletter

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Over the past few months, despite it being the rainy season, building work has continued apace at the House of Joshua site. The ground floor walls have been filled in with hollow blocks, the upper floor and columns have been moulded. The next stage of construction will, amongst other things, include fabricating the roof beams and rafters, completing the internal and external walls, installing

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While trustee Andy Conroy has been playing with a boat in the Bay of Biscay conctruction work has been pressing on apace at the House of Joshua building site. The foundations have now been dug and concreted and the 34 support pillars for the ground floor have been formed. The next step will be to fill the gaps between the posts with concrete blocks to form the walls before installing the first

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'White Sands' leaving Plymouth, 15 May 2011 bound for Spain.Following his sailing experiences in the Bay of Biscay Andy Conroy writes:-"Well we have done it – completed a 645 mile crossing of the Bay of Biscay in a 45ft sailing yacht from Plymouth to Bayona in North West Spain.Our original plan was to depart from Falmouth and sail to La Coruna but a favourable weather window saw us bid an early

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After months of planning and training the Yacht White Sands sets out today from Plymouth bound for Bayona Spain.Amongst the crew of five is one of our trustees, Andy Conroy, who is raising money for the building of the House of Joshua. Already over £1300 has been donated by way of sponsorships.Original ports of departure and destination were to have been Falmouth and La Coruna but the latest

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Read our latest newsletter here

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At long last, after more than two years of planning, fund-raising and applying for permits building work is properly under way on the House of Joshua site. When complete the house will provide a secure and loving home for up to 28 orphaned and abandoned children. We have just donated £10,000 to the Lifenet Children's Foundation (the Philippines charity responsible for building and running the

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Following our previous posting  ( A Strong Piece of Paper) we have submitted all the relevant paperwork to the Philippines Department of Finance only to be told that, although we have the endorsement of the Bureau of Customs, without also the endorsement of either the DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development) or NEDA (National Economic Development Agency) there is no legal basis to

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Few of us would describe paper as being strong but just one piece of paper is sufficient to hold up a 40ft shipping container and almost 8 tons of much needed medical equipment (ranging from syringes and needles up to nebulisers, autoclaves, wheel-chairs, hospital beds even a kidney dialysis machine), various tools and educational resources that we are trying to ship to the Philippines to support

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We had a lot of fun on Friday taking a lesson with year five at Horringer Court Middle School - talking about life for street children in the Philippines and our plans for the House of Joshua children's home.They asked a lot of really good questions about the implications of living rough on the streets in poverty as well as about bugs, creepy-crawlies, snakes and the like!This forms part of an

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What an amazing year 2010 turned out to be!We have just had our annual general meeting. The Trustees Annual Report made exciting reading. During 2010 our income went up by an astonishing 73%. Grants made to various beneficiaries, including our school sponsorship program, were up by about 10% and over £12,000 has been set aside for building the 'House of Joshua' children's home (construction work

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In May this year one of our trustees, Andy Conroy, is planning to sail across the notoriously dangerous Bay of Biscay in a 45 foot yacht, in company with friends, to raise funds for the House of Joshua building project.If you would like to sponsor Andy, or just to find our more about his trip please click on this link.BISCAY OR BUSTThere's a competition too - correctly guess how many miles for

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Thank you to the members of the 'G4G' House-Group at Horringer Court Community Church Bury St Edmunds who donated over £100 from a curry evening to raise money for the House of Joshua.It all started when one of the group members got a whiff of a curry cooked by TCRCT Trustee, Andy Conroy and said ' That smells delicious, I'd pay money for that!' Before you could say 'Madhur Jaffrey' a group

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Guests pin money to the dancing newly wedsCongratulations and a huge vote of thanks to John and Sarah Lloyd, married on Saturday 31st July.Instead of having gifts at their wedding John and Sarah asked their guests to contribute to our House of Joshua fund-raising appeal through a 'money dance (A Filipino tradition where guests pin money to the bride and groom during their first dance).With Gift

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This week's budget won't have pleased many people with a rise in VAT to 20% from next January and deep cuts in welfare benefits and public expenditure. Apparently the average family will be around £400 worse off as a consequence.However the tax man has certainly made me smile this week by paying a nice fat cheque into our charity bank account - just over £3079 in Gift Aid tax relief on donations

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Read all about it! Our latest newsletter (spring 2010) is hot off the press. Read it here

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Delivery room - Canitoan Village Health CentreWe are back in the Philippines to catch up with some of the projects that we are already involved in and to meet with new people to discuss whether we may be able to help them.Today saw us visiting the village health centre in the Barangay of Canitoan - just a couple of miles outside of Cagayan De Oro City - which serves a growing local population,

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I really enjoyed my time on Lesley Dolphin's show on BBC Radio Suffolk. I know that a number of our supporters were able to listen in but for those who missed it here is an edited version of the interview.

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I have been invited to be a guest on the Lesley Dolphin show on BBC Radio Suffolk this coming Thursday at 3.00pm to talk about the work of the charity. If you are not in the station's reception area you can listen to the program via the Internet here http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/hi/ they also have a 'listen again' button if you miss the live broadcast.

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What an incredible year 2009 turned out to be for us!Finalising our annual accounts we see income up by 69% in the midst of the worst recession the UK has seen in almost 20 years . And grants made are up by a massive 91% - largely as a result of our response to teh fire in the Puntod Community back in July.All we can say is a massive thank you to our very generous friends and supporters who have

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Our Autumn Newsletter has just been published and is full of exciting news, photos and information.You can read it here on Google Documents - Autumn 2009 NewsletterYou can also read our earlier newsletters here too:-Spring 2009 NewsletterAutumn 2008 NewsletterSpring 2008 Newsletter

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Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat,Please put some pennies in the fund-raisers hat!Yes it's that time of year again; when many of us go a bit mad rushing around spending money to celebrate the Saviour's birth by buying loads of food, presents and other stuff to share with those we love. It is also a time when many of us like to give a thought to those less fortunate than ourselves.Well

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Now you can support us when you sell things on E-Bay.When you are listing an item for sale on E-Bay you have the option of donating all or part of the proceeds to a charity of your choice. Now that we have registered with E-Bay's charity partner, Missionfish, you can choose to support the Conroy Rendon Charitable Trust. Click here to find out more.P.S. A big thank you to "Tita Dolly" who put us

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Just some of the tools shipped todayIt's been several months in the preparing, the collecting, the boxing and labelling but at last we've done it. We have emptied our garage and dispatched another shipment of tools (mechanics, plumbers, electricians and carpenters tools) gardening implements, sewing machines and computers, plus a few sets of children's clothing for good measure (as well as

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Over the past week I've had one or two people asking if they can route donations to help the victims of Typhoon Ketsana in Manila through our charity.Our focus is on long term sustainable projects, primarily around the city of Cagayan De Oro in Mindanao (which is in the south of the country) and we only work through local mission partners to ensure that all the aid we provide makes it through to

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The House of Joshua project continues to get valuable press coverage in the Philippines.We got a mention too in this front page article in the Gold Star Daily News - the largest newspaper in Mindanao.

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It seems that word is getting around about the House of Joshua project.Here's a link to an article published on a local website, Kagay-an.com by Mike Banos, a journalist working in Cagayan De Oro City, Mindanao. This article is also to be published in a couple of the main local newspapers.

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I think it was the late Scottish Minister, Oswald Chambers, who said "Life is often more tragic than orderly" and sometimes it seems to me that some peoples lives are just filled with tragedies - like a friend of mine who, down the years that I have known him, has been made redundant several times, both he and his wife have had several serious illnesses, difficulties with their children, problems

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With the initial amount of money that we sent 80 plywood sheets have been bought to build small shanty huts for 10 of the families made homeless by last weeks fire in Puntod Barangay.Following receipt of a number of generous donations God has enabled us to send in excess of £1500 to bless those in need, which means that many more homes, and lives, can be rebuilt.Here are a few lines from an

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Smoke still hangs over the devastated Puntod Community - these used to be housesA few days ago we received an e-mail from a Pastor who is one of our Mission Partners in the Philippines. He told us about a devastating fire in a slum community in the Puntod district of Cagayan De Oro City where around 100 shanty houses had been completely destroyed.In such communities houses are often built very

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I don't know the lady in this picture but she is one of the ones referred to in an e-mail I received this week from one of our mission partners, a pastor of a church in Cagayan De Oro City, Mindanao. Here is part of what he wrote: - Greetings from the Philippines!When we went to the the tribal village of Iba, preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom,our team visited a house we found three elderly

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Will you be a friend? Work is now under way to build the House of Joshua Childen's Home. However the construction project is likely to take around 8 to 9 months to complete (partly depending on how quickly the money comes in and partly on how long the rainy season lasts).In the meantime our partners in this project, the Lifenet Children's Foundation Inc. want to move forward as soon as possible

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I've never been a fan of that particular musical genre but I've heard this song, which was a hit for McFadden and Whitehead, on the radio two or three times over the last week and the first few lines have sort of got stuck in my head, "Ain't no stopping us now, we're on the move. Ain't no stopping us now, we're got the groove."It seems like a great anthem for us this week as we have just heard

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Back in April we reported on the delivery of a shipment of clothes and a couple of wheelchairs, one of which was for a young boy affected by polio (see the stories On The Recieving End and High Speed Wheelchairs in our blog archive).Unfortunately we have been unable to trace the boy again in order to give him the chair. We made enquiries without success - one person who was asked about him even

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There are times when I wonder if we have bitten off more than we can chew; when I look at the size of the task before us and wonder if it really is possible.Last week began that way with me thinking that 5 million Philippine pesos is an awful lot of money (about £70,000 last time we calculated it) - just how are we going to achieve that?But over the week there have been a number of little things

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This is Tahanan Na Kabataan (The House of Youth). Basically it is a jail for young boys from the age of about 7 or 8 up to 17. Some have commited serious offences but not all of the kids who are detained here have committed crimes. Some are here just becausse they have nowhere else to go, except living rough on the city streets.If you find this picture unacceptable please click on the Paypal

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Hearty congratulations to our friends at the medical charity, Aid to Hospitals Worldwide, based like us, in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. They have just been named as the most innovative new programme at the East of England Business in the Community Awards for Excellence, sponsored by Anglian Water.Set up by Mike Coleman about 5 years ago A2HW (as the are most often called) collect a whole range of

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Our Philippines mission partner in the House of Joshua project, The Lifenet Children's Foundation Inc. has got a new website and blog.You can find it here http://lifenetfoundation.webs.com/

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We've had a blog for quite a while now but we've just switched to using Blogger for more functionality and to reach a bigger audience. So if this is the first time you've come across us, welcome! We're a UK based Christian Charity comitted to helping people in the Philippines escape from the trap of poverty. We believe in giving a hand-up and not a hand-out. As someone once said "If you give a

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The plans have been finalised and the House of Joshua building program is about to get under way.The first step is to fence the site and to raise the level of the part of the plot that the house will actually stand on by about one metre to reduce the risk of flooding. Then the foundations can go in. If possible we want to get this first stage completed before the rainy season begins in July /

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It was exciting for us yesterday to actually walk over the land for the House of Joshua Children's Home, in company with the architect, Susan, and try to envisage the building on the site at Canitoan.The land is just over 1200 square metres in area and the house (a two storey building comprising some 600 square metres of floorspace) will occupy about a quarter of it facing eastwards.We also got

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It is always exciting for us to be able to help people in need by sending them tools and equipment that they can use to better their lives and to assist others. It has been even more exciting to spend a few days in the Philippines, "on the receiving end", and meeting with the people who have been the beneficiaries of that aid.Yesterday we visited the Procare School for children with disabilities

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No sooner do we get a bunch of aid delivered but we then get requests for more. We were already working on two more batches of tools, sewing machines and computers for livelihood creation programs but yesterday an urgent request for a wheelchair for a boy with polio came into our office. A couple of emails, a couple of phone calls and not one, but two wheelchairs were sourced, some big cardboard

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We have just heard that the four consignments of tools, clothing, sewing machines and computers that we shipped in December have all arrived safely at their destinations and are already being used to minister to people in need.In all we shipped 22 boxes to four beneficiaries. Procare - a school for children with dissabilities, Nehemiah House - a home for young girls rescued from the sex trade,

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In the early part of January several days of very heavy rain caused the Kagayan River to overflow inundating many parts of Cagayan De Oro City with several feet of dirty polluted water. Thousand of people were forced to leave their homes and take shelter in places like basketball courts and school gymnasiums. Many of the worst affected areas were the poor squatter communities living along the

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It all started about six years ago, when a family member who worked in Christian Missions visited the Philippines and saw the needs of people there. A few of us started sponsoring children from a poor squatter community to enable them to go to school.As word got about several friends joined in and it just grew until it made sense to set up a charity to manage things properly and to benefit from

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