Cagayan de Oro City

The series of flashfloods that hit Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental has reached humanitarian crisis proportions on Thursday.

Figures at the Cagayan de Oro Disaster Coordinating Council showed the disaster has affected 16,104 families or 83,321 individuals jampacked in various evacuation centers in 47 barangays or more than half of the city’s 80 barangays.

Another fatality was reported on Thursday bringing the total number of dead in Wednesday’s flashflood to three.

Raminie Cabatuan, 17 years old , a resident of Barangay Dansolihon, this city,  drowned while trying to cross a river along with four others last Jan. 14.

The Tourism Hall at the City Hall is used as an evacuation center and the ground is packed with sleeping mats and people waiting for food and medication.

Some of these people getting their first meager meals of ‘lugaw’, a rice poridge, just to get something into their stomachs.

Mother and daughter feeding the young baby in the evacuation center at the Tourism Hall at City Hall in Cagayan de Oro City.

People have to push and shove to get some hand outs from voluntary helpers.

Sick victims of the floods in Cagayan de Oro City get some medication and the children get some vacinations and check ups by doctors and nurses.

At another evacuation center in the city people have to fall in line and waiting for their turn for help.

Also this evacuation center in Cagayan de Oro is crowded and families and people, some even with their little belongings the could save from the floodwaters, are scattered around the ground of the basketball place.

Young and old flood victims alike find shelter in the evacuation centers and waiting for more help to come to them. Everything is needed, from food items like rice, noodle packs, canned goods, medicines for cold and fever (not to forget this weather conditions are for filipinos cold weather), blankets and clothing.

Here some neighbors find themselves neighbors in the evacuation center again and having a chat but nobody knows what will be next and how the future looks for them.

A mother of three is nursing her youngest while the two others feeding on a meal of rice poridge while her husband is checking on their place what they called home a few days ago.

Their is still plenty help needed for all those people.

We try to coordinate some help and readers of this blog can donate through A.S.E. eV, Aachen
or their trusted organisation, but please help, the city of Cagayan de Oro City and the whole region needs your help.

http://de.betterplace.org/organisations/ase_philippines

Every small and larger amount will help those people in need.