NADA PHILIPPINES: BEING WHERE IT MATTERS

NADA PHILIPPINES: BEING WHERE IT MATTERS

NADA PHILIPPINES: BEING WHERE IT MATTERS NASHVILLE, TN NADA CONFERENCE by JANET P. PAREDES, ADS, MA NADA Registered Trainer Certified Acupuncturist, Philippine Dept. of Health Board President, NADA Philippines Board Treasurer, Philippine Academy of Acupuncture, Inc.

LEYTE: LOCATED IN EASTERN VISAYAS, PHILIPPINES

DESCRIPTION LEYTE: 41 municipalities, 3 cities (Tacloban, Ormoc, Baybay) Tacloban City is the capital of Leyte ECONOMY: Mixed Agriculture, Fishing, Industrial, Energy, Mining Rice is farmed in lowland plains around Tacloban Coconut farming main cash crop in upland and mountanous areas. Sugar cane No. 1 crop in Ormoc City Fishing: Major source livelihood in coastal Areas

National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) Report April 17, 2014 UPDATES regarding the Effects of Typhoon YOLANDA (HAIYAN) Entered Philippine Area of Responsibility November 6, 2013. Made landfall on the following areas: - Guiuan, Eastern Samar - Tolosa, Leyte - Bantayan Island, Cebu - Busuanga, Palawan It exited the Philippines November 9, 2013

The Wrath of YOLANDA Affected 3,424,593 families, 16,078,181 individuals 890,895 families (4,095,280 individuals) displaced 1,084,762 houses (partially: 595,149 / totally 489,613) damaged Dreadful event left total of P89,598,068,634.88 worth damages

Total dead individuals accounted: 6,300 It may reach 10,000 as more bodies recovered Injured : 28, 689 Missing: 1,061 persons

Tacloban city, Leyte, Samar, Yolanda victims arrive in Manila at Villamor air base

Filipinos gathered at Villamor Airbase offering help many volunteered to cook food, drive for the victims

NADA VOLUNTEERS started giving treatment to victims November 19,2013 at Villamor Airbase

Yolanda victims wait for their names to be called at villamor grandstand

ACP 220 VILLAMOR AIRBASE

Pilots flying 4 to 6 times a day receive regular treatments

Gloria Tangonan, ADS gives treatment to female pilot Major Lilian Busto

Pilots and crew received treatments

2 hours of sleep matters a lot for the pilots flying in and out of Manila

Getting much needed sleep to fly back and forth to Tacloban City

Tent City in Pasay, temporary haven

ADS Rochet Dones at work at Tent City

NADA PHILIPPINES LEYTE MISSION Two months after: January 19 to 26, 2014 NADA Philippines Acudetox Mission to Leyte: Divine Word Hospital Tacloban City, San Fernando Elementary School Evacuation Center, Our Lady of the Assumption Parish and Barangay Magay.

People of Barangay Magay wait for their turn to be treated even as rains pour everyday

Children of Magay sit on the table for lack of other space for treatment

Psychological First Aid given at the San Fernando Evacuation Center, Tacloban City

Our Lady of the Assumption Parish was another site for Treatment. Tents set up inside the Multipurpose Hall.

Mass graves outside the church for identified bodies

Another body found near a garbage can, being buried when we passed by

Barangay Magay in January 2014

NADA Philippines back in Leyte After 2 Months NADA TRAINING held at the Divine Word Hospital Participants: Total of 13 : 9 workers from OLAP and Barangay Magay, 3 from the hospital( Dr. Ida Head of Out Patient Department, a nurse, a midwife; A healer from Leyte, Leyte. Clinical Practicum was held at the OutPatient Department of the Hospital and in communities of OLAP and Magay

Practicum: Out Patient Department Divine Word Hospital, Tacloban City

OutPatient Department turned Acudetox Treatment Area

Barangay Magay in April 2014

Assumption Parish Hall in April 2014

Our New 13 Acudetox Specialists in Tacloban City, Barangay Magay, OLAP Parish, April 6, 2014 CONGRATULATIONS!

NADA Philippines Tacloban Team: Chie Castillo, Mona Wantin, Sinag Cuasay, Rey Reyes, Jayjay Posadas, Janet Paredes and Trisha Sanijon

NADA SPIRIT: BEING WHERE IT MATTERS In anything we do, in any help or service that we render to other people, both parties are changed in the process. Being where it matters transforms the Being of the ADSes, together with the patients, in ways that really matter.

THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED NADA PHILIPPINES for Yolanda Victims Dr. Michael Smith Dr. Ruth Ackerman Sarah Bursac Jo Ann Lenney Nancy Smalls Wendy Henry Mr. Quang Huynh LHASA OMS Cynthia Neipris Monte Posner Marcela Robinson New Orleans ADSes Dr. Libby Stuyt NADA Denmark Vanessa Top NADA Germany

NADA Switzerland Marie Therese Laminet, Eleanore Hickey NADA Germany: Dr. Ralph Raben, Sieglinde Wilz PCOM New York City, San Diego, Chicago PCOM San Diego: Lesley Custodio Acupuncture Without Borders: Melanie Rubin, Nicole Anderson OCOM TCM Social Forum Germany-Sylvia Kohn Pandey Mike Bailey of LHASA OMS

Our Work in Leyte has just started. We have reached only Two Barangays out of 54 Barangays of Tanauan, Leyte. We have not reached the Province of Samar. Please continue supporting the work of NADA Philippines through donations of needles. We welcome cash donations to continue our work in giving NADA trainings in Eastern Visayas and other areas of the Philippines.

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