Have lost what I have been writing for the past 30 minutes as part of efforts to revive this blogspot. Now I must recall what I have written and lost -
Those were thoughts about the big event tomorrow, the launching of my first book, Old Warrior and Other Poems. I was saying we expected a big crowd to come on account of a few things: we launched quite campaign, using both formal media and interpersonal connections to bring about large-scale awareness about the book. There has been significant publicity mileage gained through radion and the weekly newspapers.
We have also sent out complementary copies to friends and influential people in the hope they will support attendance in the event despite the fact it is working day. We also did some posting to add to Prof. Nitz Luspo's outputs to reach more friends in the FB network about the book.
Now let's see what happens.
Net proceeds from the book sales will go to the Bohol Quake Assistance Fund Drive which supports the building of transitional and expandable core houses to help move vulnerable members of the family from tent and tarpaulin housing to a type of shelter which is a little more safe and hygeinic. To date, we have built 74 houses using resources from the fund drive and those contributed by the families themselves and local communities.
International consultants thing these core houses are temporary, which we do not deny. Our objective is not to build houses which are resistant to 250 km per hour wind. That's for a longer time frame with more resources provided to the families whose houses were totally destroyed by the earthquake. Our bias is to move families, at least the vulnerable members (children, the elderly and disabled, women) out of harm's way.
Even if we are able to provide permanent housing to those who lost their houses during the quake, still face the problem of having hundreds and hundreds more with shelter which cannot be classified as permanent or resistant to supertyphoons.
Our urban planners need to devote more time working out a feasible strategy to provide perment housing to as many people as possible without discriminating against those whose houses were not totally destroyed.
One suggestion I heard from a priest during discussions at Balay Kahayag in Laya is for the Government to build disaster-resistant buildings which can serve the dual purpose of serviving as sports arenas or cultural amphitheaters and even as serving as government offices in normal times, and to use them as refuge centers for vast number of families during typhoons, earthequakes and natural disasters.
Will this be a more economically viable option than building disaster-resistant homes for individual families?
Just posing the question. We will probably get a response that is both technically sound and politically acceptable.
Those were thoughts about the big event tomorrow, the launching of my first book, Old Warrior and Other Poems. I was saying we expected a big crowd to come on account of a few things: we launched quite campaign, using both formal media and interpersonal connections to bring about large-scale awareness about the book. There has been significant publicity mileage gained through radion and the weekly newspapers.
We have also sent out complementary copies to friends and influential people in the hope they will support attendance in the event despite the fact it is working day. We also did some posting to add to Prof. Nitz Luspo's outputs to reach more friends in the FB network about the book.
Now let's see what happens.
Net proceeds from the book sales will go to the Bohol Quake Assistance Fund Drive which supports the building of transitional and expandable core houses to help move vulnerable members of the family from tent and tarpaulin housing to a type of shelter which is a little more safe and hygeinic. To date, we have built 74 houses using resources from the fund drive and those contributed by the families themselves and local communities.
International consultants thing these core houses are temporary, which we do not deny. Our objective is not to build houses which are resistant to 250 km per hour wind. That's for a longer time frame with more resources provided to the families whose houses were totally destroyed by the earthquake. Our bias is to move families, at least the vulnerable members (children, the elderly and disabled, women) out of harm's way.
Even if we are able to provide permanent housing to those who lost their houses during the quake, still face the problem of having hundreds and hundreds more with shelter which cannot be classified as permanent or resistant to supertyphoons.
Our urban planners need to devote more time working out a feasible strategy to provide perment housing to as many people as possible without discriminating against those whose houses were not totally destroyed.
One suggestion I heard from a priest during discussions at Balay Kahayag in Laya is for the Government to build disaster-resistant buildings which can serve the dual purpose of serviving as sports arenas or cultural amphitheaters and even as serving as government offices in normal times, and to use them as refuge centers for vast number of families during typhoons, earthequakes and natural disasters.
Will this be a more economically viable option than building disaster-resistant homes for individual families?
Just posing the question. We will probably get a response that is both technically sound and politically acceptable.
