Anything Goes

It is already a familiar fact that when disasters happen, any donations sent through government agencies is not guaranteed that those relief goods, things or anything else are intact once they are given to the affected people.

People around the world should know by now about how Sendong ripped through the southern part of the Philippines affecting families without homes and leaving scores dead. My wife and I decided to help out once we go home for the new year and we made certain that we shipped our relief goods to my hometown rather than leave it to some agency or NGO.

We do not like to plaster our names or announce who we are to help those affected. That is not the real essence of helping. It is more of a marketing campaign that these people do. In short, their help is not genuine.

When we will start delivering the goods to the people, we will ensure that we will give it to them by hand. If we left it to the people in charge from barangays and other government agencies, only the bad quality things are left for those who need them the most.

Really.

I just talked to my aunt a few minutes ago and what I heard from her was very disgusting. There she was in the Philippine Port Authority area in Cagayan de Oro to check up on her shipment of relief goods from her cousin.

Funny thing happened. Nobody was there to entertain her. People literally were busy scouring through shipments of things like used clothing so they could have some for themselves. She even heard one of the staff tell the others to even call the security guards so they could get some for themselves. How sick was that?!

I told her she should have captured it on camera so this expose will be shown to the world how despicable their actions were. Sadly, my aunt owns an old fashioned phone without a camera so there was no evidence to capture.

This is why we purposely shipped our donations to my hometown addressed to my brother so that we will personally hand food and clothing to the people in need. Not to those opportunists.