Relief On The Way For Typhoon Victims

Since we first appealed for funds to provide aid to the victims of  "Typhoon Haiyan" we have received over £6000 in donations. Thank you to everyone who has been so generous!

An initial payment of £2000 was sent out to our mission partners last week to fund the purchase of medical supplies, 40 sacks of rice, noodles, canned food, cooking oil and other groceries to be distributed to the needy on the island of Leyte, which has been so badly affected by the storm.

14 volunteers from Lifenet Children's Foundation and various churches in and around Cagayan De Oro City set out this evening in a very heavily laden Jeepney which has been loaned for the trip. The fuel has also been sponsored. They will pick up some more volunteers and also pick up another truck loaded with further supplies along the way and should arrive in the town of Ormoc tomorrow.

The plan is to set up a feeding station and cook hot meals for up to 1,000 people, treating injuries, providing counselling and moral support as well as much needed packs of rice and groceries.

A further outreach trip is being planned for the first week of December.

In the meantime the House of Joshua has also been asked if they can take in 20 out of 70 orphans who were evacuated from a children's home in Tacloban before the storm struck. Their home has been totally destroyed and they have nowhere else to go.  If we are to be able to help them we urgently need to recruit more sponsors to cover teh cost of looking after them.
 If you would like to know more about The House of Joshua and our sponsorship program please click here.

The first of several boxes of groceries 

Bags of donated clothing too  

2 Tons of rice

Jeepney loaded and good to go