Thank You to the Benefactors of “Mission Typhoon Odette”

The damage was very extensive with electricity and communications cut, landslides, many fallen trees, and collapsed houses.

The volunteers were able to visit the faithful of the various chapels of the Society of Saint Pius X in Butuan, Surigao City, Canlanipa, and the families of the village of Cantugas, with whom a mission has been ongoing since March 2020, and bring them aid.

Parcels were also delivered to the island of Siargao despite the difficulties the ferries were having due to the extreme roughness of the sea – a paradise for surfers in ordinary times.

Thanks to a member of the St. Joseph Chapel in General Santos, who has a professional relationship with the Coast Guard, packets of rice, pasta, and bottles of drinking water were delivered to a group of Catholics and a Protestant community who had received no government assistance.

No one was spared. Both rich and poor have been affected. And this equality in misfortune has aroused treasures of generosity and devotion. A trader, whose rice granary was flooded, donated 200 – 25kg. bags of rice which were distributed to the poorest families in Canlanipa and Cantugas, bought preserves and donated unsoaked rice.

Collections of clothes were organized with the faithful of the priories and chapels of Gensan, South Cotabato, Davao, and Butuan. Parcels were thus distributed to the homeless who had run out of dry clothes in the daily rain.

The typhoon caused a shortage of building materials and a lack of construction workers in the disaster-affected region, as well as rising prices for goods and services. So Fr. Timothy Pfeiffer sent construction workers to the faithful in Surigao who did not have the means to rebuild or repair their homes. Wood was purchased from the Mamanwa tribe and distributed free of charge for this purpose.

Having lost much or everything, the faithful of Fr. Tim's mission in Surigao, made more attentive to the misery of others, did not hesitate to share with neighbors and to recommend the most destitute. Thus a widow and her six children, one of whom has a physical disability, who lived in a cemetery after losing their roof, were able to benefit from the help of workers sent to build them a house.

What Your Help Made Possible

On December 20, products were purchased for flood cleanup in Butuan.

On December 22, two hundred meters of tarpaulin were donated to the tribal people of Cantugas for emergency blankets. 120 Cantuga families received food and clothing.

On January 19, a non-governmental organization came to distribute food and galvanized iron roofing sheets to the 120 families of Cantugas. This allowed the Rosa Mystica mission to bring other aid to the population of Siargao.

As of February 14, 2022, 42 houses have already been rebuilt or repaired.

300 families in Surigao City and Siargao Island received food, water, and clothing, and village chiefs in Siargao collected medicine to give to the sick.

The Society of Saint Pius X chapel in Butuan and the small adjoining house which serves as a dispensary are located in a very poor and flood-prone area where people displaced by natural disasters are generally relocated. Medicines were also distributed to sick people living nearby. Three families affected by the floods in Butuan have been supported in the repair of their house.

To help the Rosa Mystica Mission:

France : ACIM - Mme Dickès, 2 route d’Equihen, 62360 Saint-Etienne-du-Mont.

Or by Paypal on the Rosa Mystica site : https:/fr.rosamystica-mission.com/

In Switzerland : A.M.E.P. - Association de Mission et d’Entraide aux Philippines - Route de Collombé 24 A - CH-1976 ERDE

By wire transfer : Banque Raiffeisen Martigny et Région - Compte bancaire : 19-1454-1

IBAN : CH24 8080 8001 0967 6858 4

SWIFT-BIC : RAIFCH22XXX

Tax receipts issued on request.

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