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Star Apple - Small Irish Charity in Leyte

  • 14-04-2014 7:27am
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    boopolo
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    It has been a while since I have been on boards.ie, and I hope some of you put aside a couple of minutes to read below, and watch the video link at the foot of this page. If you do not have time to read, you can jump to it here Jump to Video

    My name is Pascal Canning, formally from Kilcock (Ireland), London & Leixlip (Ireland), but now living in Maasin City, Southern Leyte. I have a small business here.

    As we were some 150KM south of the track of Yolanda (Haiyan) on the 8th of November 2013, we sustained only slight damage.

    Soon after the disaster, I set up a charity 'Star Apple Fund' on Facebook, (now registered as 'Star Apple Foundation' and being processed as a registered non-stock/non-profit corporation}.

    The aim of the charity is to help indigent (very poor) families rebuild their lives, by rebuilding their simple homes.

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    4.1 million people are displaced

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    My chainsaw gang cut the fallen trees into 4"x4", 4"x2", 3"x2" and 2"x2".

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    My carpenters then build a 12' x 10' house frame. We cover the roof with 14 sheets of galvanized corrugated sheeting, plus capping.

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    We then supply the house owner with 11 sheets of plywood, nails and paint to finish off their house themselves.

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    The houses cost between €260 and €365 each. Our funding to date has totally come from my friends and family in Ireland, The UK and several other countries around the world. We have no administrative costs except the diesel for my own private car, food for my workers and I, and phone etc. These charges are already calculated into the price of the houses.

    We have got plenty of press exposure here, including the front page of a National Newspaper here, but the International press seem disinterested, as for them it is old news. The Liffey Champion, is the only Irish newspaper to give us exposure.

    Our current rate of spending is €350 per day. This includes chainsaw crew of, 3 carpenters, one cook, food, diesel, petrol etc. We were building one house per day. We have been just donated a professional chainsaw from STIHL and would continue to build, but the world seems to have forgotten Leyte.

    As of today, we have enough pledges to cover the majority of the next 20 houses in Dapanas, Tabango, where we have just set up camp.

    PLEASE WATCH & SHARE our latest fundraising video, made with just a mic plugged into the back of my PC. My wife is the singer. Latest Fundraising Video
    I hope I have not broken any Boards.ie rules with this post.

    Kind Regards
    Pascal


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