Just played a benefit a few weeks back for the Phillipines (one of my other jobs/vices is being a musician - benefits like this are free gigs, we don't take pay, just there to help sell tickets). This was put on by a local Phillipino/American organization. They had a slide show of footage taken by their members on the ground who had traveled there and sent pics back.
1. Wow. The sheer scale of the devastation. Looking at it just from a labor and cleanup task is mind blowing.
2. Hearing the stories of lack of basic services like clean water or seeing the makeshift shelters people were using was sobering to say the least.
3. Lines of communication for a lot of the people are back to basics - word of mouth. Status of friends and relatives unknown still and may never be known.
4. The Phillipino people here - I really don't know them other than through the band I was working with. Even though it was a donated catered event, watching them all pitch in and the way they treat everyone. Seem like good people to me. Amidst it all, they maintain a positive outlook.
Well, that's my take on it. I would agree - could have used a lot more media attention.
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