I received this note from Fr Paul via facebook today:
Brooke, thank you so much for your support.
We have been helping in particular about 60 families in Payatas. There are of course many more than that but we have been focussing on one area in particular (you might want to look at the facebook site of Miguel Paolo Rivera to see some pictures).
If we get more funds we are considering helping others as well as those 60 families.
Another thing that I am considering, again if we get enough funds, is whether we will be able to help any of the victims of the typhoon from Payatas in a longer term way. They are extremely poor people most of whom get their livelihood from scavenging on the rubbish dump.
Just after the typhoon I was with them as they were eating food picked up from the rubbish dump (meat thrown away on the garbage which they rescue and eat), actually even before the disaster this is what some of them eat. Maybe this disaster in their lives can be an opprtunity, if enough funds arrive, for them to recieve some longer term help (for example for a tutor for their children since without education they will almost certanly stay in poverty for the rest of their lives).
Anyway thanks for remembering and more than remembering. Please continue to keep everyone in your prayers even after the immediate news of everything dies down and most people forget.
GOD BLESS
Fr Paul
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