Jaya’s Second Life
Sent by Cris Uy, a volunteer with the relief efforts in the Philippines, just returned from Tacloban and Ormoc and this is what he writes...
"On our way to Barangay Dolores, Ormoc City, we saw a family hiding under the ruins of what it looks like a house beneath the uprooted huge tree. We stopped and talked to the three families inside and met Jaya, a young girl who survived miraculously from the fury of Yolanda (also known as Haiyan). On that fateful morning, her dad found her near the comfort room lying with a concrete wall leaning on her head. Her dad ran toward her and tried to lift the wall but he could not move it. She pulled her self out and to their amazement, she only had little wounds in her right ear. I had the privilege of helping treat her wound and gave help to sustain them for a few days."