Carnaza, 23/11

This morning we gather all our leftovers together and we manage to make another 30 bags with various supplies inside. Every bag contains at least rice, corn, a can soap and noodles, plus clothes and other items that are left.

By now we have given supplies to all the villages on the island except one, named Bario. It is the main village on the island and the richest people are living here. Instead of trusting blindly a list that has been given to us by the local people, we prefer to check ourselves the stage of this village. We want to make sure that our supplies arrive to the people that really need them. Instead of carrying all the goods with us, we decide to make tickets that people can later hand us over against the things that are written on it.

We are approaching the village from the outer side and instead of finding many concrete houses, we find a part of the village that is quite poor compared to the other ones. Most families are living here in wooden houses and some of them have nothing left. 

The advantage of looking at every house also gives us the possibility to see what kind of help will be the most effective. For families with a lot of children we give them more food supplies and for people rebuilding their house we can supply a hammer, a saw or nails depending on the need of every one. The tarpaulins we give to people that still live in their house and who don’t have any shelter to protect them from rain.

As there is a lot of damage we cannot help everybody and it is always a hard decision to refuse help to somebody, knowing that there could be somebody later on that needs the help more. We spend most of the day wandering through the whole village, making sure that we don’t forget anyone. 

We also visit the medical center and give them the medication that we brought with us. Everything is marked in the logbook, every visit and every medication that has been given to people. We also mark every amount of each medicine into the book.

At 3pm we are back on the boat, quite exhausted and without having had lunch yet. Captain Remy stayed the whole time on the boat as he hasn’t recovered from his fever yet. He prepares us a delicious meal made from fresh fishes given by local fishermen. We are having a quick rest and at 5pm we are ready for the distribution at the beach.

,As the people can’t figure out what the signs on their ticket mean, so every ticket is a small surprise for them. The distribution goes along quite smooth, except somebody wanting to jump in front of the line or other ones being greedy and wanting more. There is always someone trying to get more than others, but after all this distributions it becomes easy to distinguish greedy people from the ones really needing help. All the villages are done now, but we still have a few leftovers… It is going to be our last mission for tomorrow.