The drenched and shivering young woman cast her eyes frantically back and forth over the beach where the rescue volunteers had laid her down after pulling her from the breakers. “Where’s my mother?” she sobbed, “Oh, help! Someone, please find my mother!” She cried so piteously that one of the rescuers momentarily forgot all her …
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KRIZ CRUZADO’S PAR STUDENTS PREPARE FOR DISASTERS
- By Jonathan Cranston
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04.August.2015
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04.August.2015
Last week, in the Davao City offices of PeaceBuilders Community, Inc. (PBCI), Kriz Cruzado and her assistant were revising field reports, sorting and transcribing receipts (“liquidating funds” in the Filipino English usage), and tying up the hundred loose ends of a nearly two year PBCI operation in the Visayan island region – a project which …
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PBCI FINALIZES PAR-DRN ORGANIZING IN EASTERN SAMAR
- By PBCI InfoComm Team
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31.July.2015
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31.July.2015
This month we mark the completion of a nearly two year PeaceBuilders Community Inc. operation designed to enhance the disaster response capabilities of the Church in the Visayan Islands of the central Philippines. From small beginnings, this program really took off thanks to the enthusiastic participation of the Visayan pastors and the financial backing of …
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OPERATIONS CHANGE TONE AS STORM RECEDES
- By Arthur J. Block
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09.December.2014
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09.December.2014
Typhoon Hagupit has all but left the country into the South China Sea, as of Tuesday, December 9th. The storm hit Manila, but by that time had slowed to winds of less than 100 Km/h and rains had receded from their torrential caliber. Downgraded again from a tropical storm to a tropical “depression”, the destruction …
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PASTORS & CHRISTIAN LEADERS GET HANDS-ON TRAINING ON DISASTER RESPONSE OPERATIONS
- By PBCI InfoComm Team
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17.June.2014
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17.June.2014
“Flood rescue operations is now a crucial ministry of our church to our neighborhood and even to our municipality,” said Pastor Paul Villamor, a survivor of super-typhoon Haiyan and one of the organizers of a local disaster response network being facilitated by PeaceBuilders Community Inc. (PBCI). “Because of the disasters we’ve been experiencing, we are …
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