“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” Cebu Super Typhoon Odette Action
Super Typhoon Rai, locally known as Odette, made its first landfall, bringing torrential rains, violent winds, floods and storm surges to the Visayas and Mindanao Islands. Overnight, the Typhoon left hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands of families homeless. Initial reports showed devastation across many areas of the impacted regions, but it is only over the subsequent weeks that the full scale of damage has come to light. The initial assessments only hinted at the scale of destruction – nearly 1.7 million houses damaged or destroyed, massive damage to infrastructure, agricultural land, fishing communities and livelihoods across a vast geographic area of the country. In total, the Typhoon severely affected an estimated 9.9 million people across the six worst hit regions, leaving about 2.4 million people in need of assistance. More than a month on, nearly 144,000 people remain displaced, and many more are living in damaged shelters with little access to basic services.
Quickly after Cebu was short of everything. No drinking water, no electricity, no signal, no internet, no transportation, no gasoline, no food. The government declares state of calamity as Typhoon Odette leaves
Patrick despite being thousands of kilometers away from the disaster did everything possible to lessen the burden and pain and helped where he could.
He provided financial assistance for over 70+ families to rebuild their totally damaged homes, provided over 40 families with a drinking water filter systems to generate drinking water without any chemical or electricity use since drinking water was hard to find and locals got sick from drinking dirty water from the nearby rivers, sends canned goods to affected provinces, solar lamps, generators and so on.
