I believe I have to take a pause for this and ask for your help. The image of this photo, shared by blogger and twitter Mindanaoan, of a father cradling his muddied, dead daughter just gripped my heart last night that it was a wonder I was able to sleep at all.
I grew up in Davao and as far back as I remember, we haven’t experienced such strong a typhoon in our area. We’ve always had this thought that our mountains will shelter us from the typhoon. It could be that the people were thinking of this same thought hence they were fully unprepared with nature’s onslaught.
At the time of writing, more than 520 people are confirmed dead. Hubby said, it gave him the same creeps and goosebumps he felt back in March after the big Tohoku earthquake when we lay scared in bed (scared because of the continuous aftershock tremors) whilst listening to the radio broadcast about 700 bodies being washed to the shore akin to driftwood except that they led lives before and loved and laughed and cried and had dreams.
For parties who are interested to help the victims of typhoon Sendong in Mindanao and make donations, please visit the following links:
Donate to Red Cross Phillipines now
Donate to World Vision org now
And as pointed out by Mindanaoan, to those who intend to donate instant noodles and similar instant food, please try to give something else that doesn’t require much water. Water is terribly precious in the affected area now.
This picture just broke my heart, Marj =( Imagine, just a week away from Christmas and then this typhoon came. My brother in Cebu said it’s his first time to experience brown out there (as a result of the typhoon) so I can just imagine how strong this one was.
It really is heartbreaking Lé. 🙁 can’t imagine nga how this happened if I base it with my experiences growing up. Either nature has become more fierce (climate change related?) or people have abused nature too much.
Yeah. This is really heartbreaking. I saw several pictures in Inquirer.net of mothers cradling their lost children. I can’t imagine how that would feel. 🙁 This is a very trying time for our country.
Yeah Aleng. And it happened just when it’s almost Christmas. Not that it would be better had it happened at any other month. Just that it would make things harder.
Thank you for sharing this photo. I am still very surprised as to how viral it has become but I am very happy that it has somehow helped send my message across. The photo drove a lot of people into action. Salamat sa iyong suporta!
You’re welcome mindanaoan. 🙂 Thanks as well for visiting and commenting on our site. Kudos to you for the exemplary service that you did to our countrymen.