As ECOWEB continues its advocacy on localization through Survivors and Community-led Response (sclr) approach, Self-Help Group (SHG) leaders facilitated the distribution of cash assistance in their respective purok. Allowing them…
How can donors respond to emergencies rapidly, effectively, and with dignity to the survivors? In the Philippines, we are used to seeing food packs containing rice, sardines, noodles, and some…
Cash and Vouchers as effective response to a crisis
by Carino V. Antequisa “Sa ngayon mga 50% sa mga households along the main road mula San Julian to Oras ang apektado, lalo na ang mga bahay na made…
Pre-emptive evacuation in Dolores in the morning of May 14. Photo courtesy from Alren Beronio
Typhoon Ambo (Vongfong) hits ECOWEB partner-municipalities in Eastern Samar
Distance means so little when service to humanity calls out. It does not stop humanitarian workers from realizing the true essence of “bayanihan” . COVID-19 neither separates nor divides people,…
Senior, elderly group in Caloocan opts for cash aid, distributes rice to members
A strong heart and an optimistic mind. Two different stories get the better of COVID-19 through maximizing resources and channeling aid through localization – allowing space for the locals to…
Earthquake to COVID-19 Outbreak: Two Stories of Sustainability in Cotabato
Faced with the unavailability of alcohol for use in the fight against COVID-19, Save Mindanao Volunteers (SMVI), Inc from Butuan City teams up with a local company to produce ethanol…
EcoWEB orders locally-produced ethyl alcohol made from nipa sap to help fight COVID-19
After a Butuan City-based volunteer organization distributed self-made face shields, overwhelming calls poured in from different offices, requesting to avail free face shields for frontliners. To respond to the need…
Requests for Face Shields Keep Pouring in
COVID-19 should be a People's War as what Vietnam (one successful country being cited in the fight against COVID) is doing. For NAPC SRC and VDC (representing the 14 basic…
Why we should make COVID-19 response participatory
A total of 33 Self-Help Groups (SHGs) from different earthquake-affected barangays in North Cotabato participated in the Psychosocial Activity conducted by Suara Kalilintad Association, Inc. (SKAI) held last March 11-15,…
577 earthquake-affected beneficiaries in Cotabato undergo psychosocial activity, defy traumatic experiences
A total of Php 3,040,000.00 was received by the 760 earthquake survivors in Cotabato last February 26 and 27, 2020 in Kidapawan and Makilala, North Cotabato as part of the…
