One of our HELP interns reports:
Today I have had the opportunity to visit Ketsana victims again. In the morning we stuffed around 70 bags with clothing we’ve received from a nearby church. And off we went in the afternoon to places well-known to us.
Many of them looked much better than the last time we visited.
What we didn’t like though was that they had just opened a new garbage dump right there in the slum area. The garbage trucks were all standing in line in front of it. What if the area gets hit by another flood? It would be littered all over with garbage again.
The people were all very busy and many are actually paid to help clean up. However, the way of clearing the area from the dirt was funny. The Filipinos use anything to carry a small pile of mud to another street corner: empty baskets, sliced water containers, the grid cover of a fan ... they attach it to a piece of string and trail it behind.
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