• 2 months ago
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Transcript
00:00We will continue to deliver the true service to those who are in need in Lipa, Batangas.
00:06And Susan is still here as Chef JR.
00:15Yes, we will continue to deliver the true service to our loved ones here in Lipa City, Batangas.
00:22We are here at P.M. Kalaw Elementary School in Lipa City.
00:26More than 100 families have fled from Balintawak Barangay
00:32because most of them were forced to enter their homes,
00:36some of them even had to go to Bewang, Leeg, and Tubig.
00:38But for those of you who can see around me,
00:41the sky is clear, there are clouds that we can see,
00:46but our fellow countrymen are staying here.
00:49Of course, their stories are different.
00:51Their reasons for staying here are different.
00:55And why did they flee?
00:57Ma'am, what happened to you in your house in Balintawak Barangay?
01:01It was flooded.
01:03Your whole house?
01:04Yes.
01:05Why? How did it happen?
01:06We lived next to a river,
01:09and because of the heavy flood,
01:12our house was swept away by the waves.
01:17It was swept away?
01:18Yes, it was swept away.
01:19All of our belongings were swept away.
01:21So you were not saved?
01:22No.
01:24You were not saved from anything?
01:26No.
01:27You were not prepared for this?
01:29No, not at all.
01:31Now, in the past few days, this is really happening to us.
01:37So you don't have a place to go back to?
01:40No.
01:41How are you going to start?
01:42We don't know.
01:43I don't know how.
01:45I'm not able to sleep.
01:47You can't sleep?
01:48Yes.
01:49Some of my belongings were swept away.
01:51So you were not saved from anything?
01:54How many children do you have?
01:55We have six.
01:56How many children do you have?
01:57Six.
01:58Six.
01:59So if you go back there, where will you go?
02:02We don't know.
02:04So that's one of your problems,
02:06if you go back there,
02:08because your whole house was swept away.
02:10Yes.
02:11Nothing is left.
02:12These are the stories of our neighbors.
02:15For example, if they want to go back,
02:18they have to go back home because their house was swept away.
02:23That's why they will stay here in this school
02:27while they are thinking about how to revive their lives,
02:31how they will start again after this storm.
02:37Let's go back to the studio.

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