Odette Typhoon Experience: Limasawa Volunteer Operation
The most devastating event that happened exactly last year from now has grown a heavy part on each one of us. Typhoon Odette left a hallmark that forever will be ingrained in our most painful days, it haunts us and gives us the horrors of what a typhoon is like.
Just like everyone else, I was also devastated and broken when Odette rampaged the whole Visayas. I got to see the horrors of living in a hellhole of climate change due to the colonial-imperialistic policies and systems that cater most to urbanization, deforestation, and other activities that damage environmental well-being. And by that, when times like this happen, the government is easy to dismiss their part of giving climate justice and holds their policies accountable.
But what pains me the most is that the government that promised us a good system is the government that is easy to rely on volunteerism and charities, and ultimately failed to protect the most vulnerable actors in situations like this.
the relief goods distributions
Here are some of the photos I took when we volunteered to help distribute relief goods and raise charities for Limasawa Island victims who were the most graveyard victims of the typhoon.
We were also able to take some photos of ourselves!
