Tuesday, 12 November 2013 - 14:50
Not knowing is the worst
Filipinos in Amsterdam are distraught by the news about typhoon Haiyan. Contact with friends and family is impossible. Meanwhile, five hundred Amsterdam Filipinos came forward to help.
Christopher Creed was born in the Netherlands, but his parents are from the Philippines. His cousins still live there and he's desperately trying to contact them, but so far without success. It is very frustrating.
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2176 Even though his family lives in the south, which was spared, many of his cousins went to Tacloban to work as an au pair or housekeeper. There were plenty of job opportunities in the devastated city, because that's where foreign investors would build their homes. Credo is not sure his cousins were in the affected area when Typhoon Haiyan passed by. He's been hoping for a sign of life for days. In the past few days the magnitude of the disaster only increased. An initial death toll of seventy grew to fifteen hundred, and now there's talk of twelve thousand fatalities. The only way to obtain information is through media such as CNN. Credo's girlfriend, Anielou Lipke tries to watch as often as possible. That's all they can do, according to Lipke. The Filipino church community that gathers in the St. Paul's Church in Osdorp, is also very concerned. There's no electricity or food in Tacloban, everything is destroyed, states Lucila Carmila from De Pijp. When she heard of the disaster, she immediately called her mother, who lives four hours away from the affected area. Her mother was fine, but ever the initial contact she could not get a hold of her mother again. The "not knowing" is the worst.
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2176 Even though his family lives in the south, which was spared, many of his cousins went to Tacloban to work as an au pair or housekeeper. There were plenty of job opportunities in the devastated city, because that's where foreign investors would build their homes. Credo is not sure his cousins were in the affected area when Typhoon Haiyan passed by. He's been hoping for a sign of life for days. In the past few days the magnitude of the disaster only increased. An initial death toll of seventy grew to fifteen hundred, and now there's talk of twelve thousand fatalities. The only way to obtain information is through media such as CNN. Credo's girlfriend, Anielou Lipke tries to watch as often as possible. That's all they can do, according to Lipke. The Filipino church community that gathers in the St. Paul's Church in Osdorp, is also very concerned. There's no electricity or food in Tacloban, everything is destroyed, states Lucila Carmila from De Pijp. When she heard of the disaster, she immediately called her mother, who lives four hours away from the affected area. Her mother was fine, but ever the initial contact she could not get a hold of her mother again. The "not knowing" is the worst.