Get ready to collect… Don ’ t touch anyone !

Peso values Money bag = 100,000 Yellow = 100 White = 10

PoorMiddle-ClassWealthy  Basic wooden house (limited electricity)  Bike  Cell phone  Low paid or no job  Basic wooden fishing boat to collect food  Some medical services/ no health insurance  Primary education/some secondary education  Shared toilets within the community  Shared water wells Note: you have no insurance, no remittances, no social security or government funded benefits.  Strong house  Second hand car  Reasonably paid job  TV  Computer  Can afford most medical expenses  Have some insurance  Remittances (money) received from family overseas  Access to primary, secondary and tertiary education  Access to clean water, private toilets and food Strong concrete house  Modern/new car  Well-paid job / business owner  TV, computer, radio, ipad  Cell phone  Nice clothes  Overseas holidays  Maid  Nanny  Can meet all medical expenses  Extensive home, contents and health insurance  Private education including primary, secondary and tertiary.  Access to clean water, private toilets and food

Typhoon Haiyan, 8 th of November 2013

A few stories from the ground…

How are the wealthy affected?

… and the middle-class?

What about the extremely poor?

SEXMJOfeppdM4vn6ryln1Htz The Leban’s Story

PoorMiddle ClassWealthy  House destroyed P1000  Cost of tarpaulin for temporary shelter P50  Boat destroyed P200  Community sanitation system damaged. Need to purchase anti-septic liquid and buckets. P80  Community water supply damaged. Need to purchase safe drinking water for a week. P200  Medical fees from family members physically injured from debris during the typhoon (no health insurance) P800  Funeral costs P850  Damage to the exterior of the house P2500 (You pay excess of P500)  Damage to garden P300 (You pay excess of P100)  Loss of wages P500  Childcare costs: P1000  Cost of contacting relatives: P20  Contaminated water supply means you need to purchase bottled water for several days: P200  You have some food supplies in your cupboards. You buy some food. P100  Minor damage to the exterior of the house P1000 (covered by insurance)  Damage to garden P200 (covered by insurance)  Phone calls to overseas relatives who are concerned P20  Increased childcare P1000  Need to replace contaminated water supply with bottled water for several days. P200  Power is down but you can run your own generator for 2 weeks. P250  You have food supplies for two weeks in your cupboards.

Caritas in the Philippines

The first step is Relief

Distributing emergency food supplies…

…cleaning things (soap, toothpaste, etc.)

…materials for building temporary shelters

…transporting supplies to remote places

The second phase is called Recovery

The goal is to ‘build back better’

…employing local people and materials

Coconut palms felled by the storm become the building materials for new houses

These houses are built on a hillside, so they will not get flooded out again

Veges are planted to feed families and sell

Livelihoods (like fishing) are re-established

These women make super-hot chilli powder

Safe water supply is re-established…

…so life can start returning to normal again