The CrossWay Leadership Team recently approved a $2,000 gift to be sent to the Philippines to help with Typhoon relief. Paul Caampued sent back this Email.
By God's grace, we were able to help 4 fishermen from Kinagatan, Binangonan, Rizal to purchase a second hand net and some bamboo poles to make a fishtrap to catch fingerlings to restock their cages. They work cooperatively to put up a 'baklad'. I told them to divide the fingerlings among themselves so that they can have someting to start anew.
According to them they had already catched about 1,000 pieces of bighead fingerlings (about 2 to 3 fingers in size) and about 15 kilos of tilapia fingerlings. They will need about 50,000 pieces of bighead fingerlings and about 500 kilos of tilapia fingerlings.
The US$ 2,000 gift from CrossWay is a great help. We can purchase for them more nets for 'baklad, closed and open cages, bamboo poles, and fishfry. We will be able to assist in repairing their boats. One of them lost his boat. They can also buy 'tilapia breeders' so they can speed up restocking their cages with tilapia. And may be repair 1 fish cabin for their common use.
With these help, I'm very sure they will know that there is God and there are people who care and are willing to share their resources to help other people. The pastors working in the area will surely be happy with this assistance for their church members.
I have discussed with them the idea of producing their own fish feeds (one pastor who have attended PTC seminars know how to make feeds and had share the 'technology' with me). They were very excited about the idea. We also had some discussions about the possibility of making fish paste and paste sauce using portion of their catch. The idea made them really hopeful because this will be 'land based' livelihood that heir wives can do to augment their income. It takes 4 to 6 months to produce fish paste and fish sauce.
Jeff Taclas had received some help from us and from other friends. I will visit him today to see what materials need to be bought or maybe replace small appliances that were destroyed by the flood.
Please tell the CrossWay leadership team of our sincere thanks and appreciation of their genuine love and concern to help others.
Paul
By God's grace, we were able to help 4 fishermen from Kinagatan, Binangonan, Rizal to purchase a second hand net and some bamboo poles to make a fishtrap to catch fingerlings to restock their cages. They work cooperatively to put up a 'baklad'. I told them to divide the fingerlings among themselves so that they can have someting to start anew.
According to them they had already catched about 1,000 pieces of bighead fingerlings (about 2 to 3 fingers in size) and about 15 kilos of tilapia fingerlings. They will need about 50,000 pieces of bighead fingerlings and about 500 kilos of tilapia fingerlings.
The US$ 2,000 gift from CrossWay is a great help. We can purchase for them more nets for 'baklad, closed and open cages, bamboo poles, and fishfry. We will be able to assist in repairing their boats. One of them lost his boat. They can also buy 'tilapia breeders' so they can speed up restocking their cages with tilapia. And may be repair 1 fish cabin for their common use.
With these help, I'm very sure they will know that there is God and there are people who care and are willing to share their resources to help other people. The pastors working in the area will surely be happy with this assistance for their church members.
I have discussed with them the idea of producing their own fish feeds (one pastor who have attended PTC seminars know how to make feeds and had share the 'technology' with me). They were very excited about the idea. We also had some discussions about the possibility of making fish paste and paste sauce using portion of their catch. The idea made them really hopeful because this will be 'land based' livelihood that heir wives can do to augment their income. It takes 4 to 6 months to produce fish paste and fish sauce.
Jeff Taclas had received some help from us and from other friends. I will visit him today to see what materials need to be bought or maybe replace small appliances that were destroyed by the flood.
Please tell the CrossWay leadership team of our sincere thanks and appreciation of their genuine love and concern to help others.
Paul
The above picture is from The Boston Globe. You can see some great photographs that capture the effects of Typhoon Ondoy in the Philippines at The Big Picture.
