LittleFish & Mama Helen's Family: still homeless - Typhoon damage
Bantayan Island, Philippines: LittleFish's son Kalle photographed at Mama Helen's, 3:10pm
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/40s f/3.3 at 42.0mm iso100
I had my camera this day, as Mama Helen was feeding her grandkids at their beach shack while LittleFish was off selling gasoline to passing vehicles at the roadside for some income.
Kalle & the Family are used to me being there as they go about their daily business, and Kalle loves when I take his picture, although he only noticed me here for a moment before he went back to eating his rice.
Over the past few days I've been trying to text LittleFish and the Family - asking them how far Papa David has gotten in making arrangements to begin repairs on their shack that was destroyed by Typhoon Fengsheng in late June 2008, and also as I have $50USD to send them that was donated by a friend here and I wanted to make her aware of that, and only heard from her last night via a text on my Philippine mobile phone; the entire text is quoted verbatim below:
"Gud morning kuya, ds s littlefish.
kuya we dont have a house @ mama helens, also me no house kuya we stay in the school kuya, we dont have rice to eat"
"kuya" means "brother" or "big brother" and LittleFish is telling me that the Family is still housed & sleeping in the small local school, so I'm not optimistic about any chance their squatters shack is going to be rebuilt in the near future.
LittleFish and her son Kalle are photographed recently in the July 9, 2008 post.
Please email me if you are able to help, as I think this is an issue this Family will have to be dealing with for the remainder of this year and into 2009.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
Olympus E-1, Olympus Zuiko 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Digital: 1/40s f/3.3 at 42.0mm iso100
I had my camera this day, as Mama Helen was feeding her grandkids at their beach shack while LittleFish was off selling gasoline to passing vehicles at the roadside for some income.
Kalle & the Family are used to me being there as they go about their daily business, and Kalle loves when I take his picture, although he only noticed me here for a moment before he went back to eating his rice.
Over the past few days I've been trying to text LittleFish and the Family - asking them how far Papa David has gotten in making arrangements to begin repairs on their shack that was destroyed by Typhoon Fengsheng in late June 2008, and also as I have $50USD to send them that was donated by a friend here and I wanted to make her aware of that, and only heard from her last night via a text on my Philippine mobile phone; the entire text is quoted verbatim below:
"Gud morning kuya, ds s littlefish.
kuya we dont have a house @ mama helens, also me no house kuya we stay in the school kuya, we dont have rice to eat"
"kuya" means "brother" or "big brother" and LittleFish is telling me that the Family is still housed & sleeping in the small local school, so I'm not optimistic about any chance their squatters shack is going to be rebuilt in the near future.
LittleFish and her son Kalle are photographed recently in the July 9, 2008 post.
Please email me if you are able to help, as I think this is an issue this Family will have to be dealing with for the remainder of this year and into 2009.
Thanks for reading today,
PJAMES
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Hi pual james im bembo from philippines and were making a charity website for filipino children and can i ask to have you permission to use your photo shots with your consideration for the benefits of filipino children please. email me here bembo_224@yahoo.com.ph