The scenario look untouched, the extent of the catastrophe is rapidly increasing as the days passed by. Hungry and homeless people roam the once city now turned to ruins, corpse of humans and animals are of no difference strayed everywhere, no decent burials, no funeral parade. The rich and the poor were unidentified; everyone suffered the power of Typhoon Haiyan. The Visayas region was greatly devastated specifically Samar and Leyte provinces.
The Philippines headlined the whole world, local and foreign media‘s camera were positioned to typhoon Haiyan’s ground zero. News and commentaries about the cries from the hungry and homeless survivors was heartbreaking, it sounded not just the whole archipelago but the entire community around the world that make way for immediate relief and aid. Donations either goods or cash swamped, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and many other countries sent their Arm Forces, warships and helicopters as additional forces for fast recovery and action.
The Philippines headlined the whole world, local and foreign media‘s camera were positioned to typhoon Haiyan’s ground zero. News and commentaries about the cries from the hungry and homeless survivors was heartbreaking, it sounded not just the whole archipelago but the entire community around the world that make way for immediate relief and aid. Donations either goods or cash swamped, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan and many other countries sent their Arm Forces, warships and helicopters as additional forces for fast recovery and action.
Typhoon Haiyan entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility
Amidst the effort and immediate response of foreign countries, our own government is being accused of slow relief effort, the survivors of typhoon Haiyan are losing their patience to their own President Noynoy even allies say he appears to have been caught off guard by the scope of the crisis. “He has to move fast, otherwise this will engulf him,” said Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, a veteran politician.
One of the first photo of the devastation of typhoon Haiyan in the Visayan region
To check the real state of his fellow countrymen, President Aquino immediately flew to the devastated Tacloban City, on his public statement he keep on criticizing the local officials for their initial failures to help the living and count the dead. He also expressed annoyance at his top disaster management officials and become irritable when a local business owner complained of being held up at gunpoint by looters. “But you did not die, right?” Mr. Aquino snapped, according to local news media reports, shortly before presidential guards ushered the man out of the room.
Critics say he has held fast to national pride rather than issue a forceful appeals for international assistance instead he played down reports that the death toll could exceed 10,000, suggesting 2,000 might be more realistic. In an interview with CNN, he attributed the larger figure to the “emotional trauma” experienced by those providing the estimates. In his another CNN interview with Christiane Amanpour, Aquino’s impression tried to project was a government in control. But the situation on the ground told a far different story. That disconnect now appears to have sent the once much-vaunted popularity of the President into a nosedive.
Another in an article written by Antonio Montalvan II of PDI, The sobering reality couldn’t seem to get into the heads of administration officials. As baffling was their seeming ignorance of the breadth and length of destruction. For example, it was media that told us that even some small islands off northern Cebu had been without food and shelter for days. And that no government help had reached them.
The administration, seemed pay its attention much to public criticism, it seemed he does not want to stain his record during his presidency, as what his campaign motto “Tuwid na Daan” says, he will lead us, the whole country for a better Philippines during his term, but now after the deluge of typhoon Haiyan it seems that another big deluge is coming. 1 week after the typhoon striked Samar and Leyte, another 1 week waiting for a plastic bag of relief goods good for 3 days. The total international aid is 10 Billion, we, those who were not affected by the typhoon must guard that money, as in the Philippines, corrupt officials stray in every corner of our government. They don’t care to whom that fund must go, they just care and think of how they have their part on those funds.
Yes, we Filipinos are strong enough to face any kind of disaster, at the end of the day, we will just smile and use what’s there, Yes, it will took much time for these affected cities to recover, but if we will just stand as one nation, guard the fund for their rehabilitation, we could achieve it fast than expected.
Another in an article written by Antonio Montalvan II of PDI, The sobering reality couldn’t seem to get into the heads of administration officials. As baffling was their seeming ignorance of the breadth and length of destruction. For example, it was media that told us that even some small islands off northern Cebu had been without food and shelter for days. And that no government help had reached them.
The administration, seemed pay its attention much to public criticism, it seemed he does not want to stain his record during his presidency, as what his campaign motto “Tuwid na Daan” says, he will lead us, the whole country for a better Philippines during his term, but now after the deluge of typhoon Haiyan it seems that another big deluge is coming. 1 week after the typhoon striked Samar and Leyte, another 1 week waiting for a plastic bag of relief goods good for 3 days. The total international aid is 10 Billion, we, those who were not affected by the typhoon must guard that money, as in the Philippines, corrupt officials stray in every corner of our government. They don’t care to whom that fund must go, they just care and think of how they have their part on those funds.
Yes, we Filipinos are strong enough to face any kind of disaster, at the end of the day, we will just smile and use what’s there, Yes, it will took much time for these affected cities to recover, but if we will just stand as one nation, guard the fund for their rehabilitation, we could achieve it fast than expected.
