Thursday, November 28, 2013

Tacloban, Leyte Philippines November 2013

I just returned from 3 days in Tacloban Leyte Philippines.
I am a volunteer with The Ramon Tulfo Foundation.
I was there to shoot video and photos documenting The Foundations Medical and

 Food Mission in the Tacloban area.
Here I am with Roger our security guard and his former Commanding Officer.
Roger served 5 years in The Philippine Army.
Im working on editing the video now.
A YouTube page will be setup tomorrow with video of our relief effort.
Ill post the link!
Ramon 'Mon' Tulfo formed this group of 40 doctors and nurses from Manila hospitals. Another 10 joined as a support team.
The group, along with several thousand kilos of medicine and food, flew from Manila at no charge thanks to Philippine Airlines. 

The Philippine Military provided trucks and drivers to get us around the city. 
Our mission was to bring medical and food relief to areas which have not received much aid.
We would drive to a neighborhood and set up in front of the Municipal Building.
A medical station would provide injections and other needed care to anyone who wandered over....babies to the elderly were treated.
Typical street scenes as we travel thru the different areas of Tacloban
Almost 2 weeks since the typhoon and the lack of government response can be seen everyday as we convoyed through the city.
We also set up a soup kitchen.
Cooking a noodle soup over a scrap wood fire in large metal pots.
We could feed several hundred locals a hot meal within a hour of setting up.

Here we are with a group of happy customers!