That was the problem, yung immediate set-up ng shelter that time so thank god may mga ilan

lang na
malaking shelter, dalawa or so nailagay na sa iligan city but it could be sana in the nearby na lang ng
marawi para di tayo nahihirapan ng gastos ditto sa iligan city which is commercial, industrial veery very
expensive here so that was one problem you know the immediate shelter that is accessible nearby
marawi which is safety din naman in Lanao del norte. So thankfully balo a setup a balo a konti lang, it
cant really accommodate so many people so it was able to accommodate this x amount pero there is so
many that went to iligan and Cagayan de oro which was very very hard because it was very heated na
yung change of weather which was something na unhealthy it was parang a change of bodily
temperature led to their non survival, many of them not really survived so yung napakacold baguio
south ng marawi, change of temperature to the industrial city of iligan and Cagayan de oro which is also
heated talagang may effect po yon sa health ng mga bata at tsaka yung isa pang challenge is yung the
host communities within residences yung host communities hindi sya narerecognize as a shelter so the
host community which like a more of a family more of a person in iligan in Cagayan de oro whos paying
and feeding all the rest of the evacuees, hindi sya formally recognized as a shelter site. You know you
can have as much as within one home, you can have several families but that is not really documated or
recognized so that also is a problem in facilities kas inga paano madedeliveran ng mga gamit yung mga
cr paano mamomonitor yung mga status ng mga cr, sanitation, yung tubig, access sa electricidad at tsaka
yung pasponsor the gobyerno since there was a proclamation order that libre ang health at medical
assistance. I mean there is a provision in the proclamation order that the DOH, DEPEd, DSWD should
provide all the necessary assistance to the evacuees. Other facilities like comfort rooms major issue yan
because there was like issues na may namboboso o kaya there’s just few crs, there is no drainage for the
sewage, yung para sa pagkapoopoo ng mga tao, that in itself lent also to the parang sanitation concern
so the evacuation centers where limited in the toilets, so one of the advocacies natin that time was to
really increase the number of portalets at dapat po may mga shelter, may mga location yung camp
management which is the health personnel at yung mga tao in charge of monitoring the evacuation
office, there should be an office, physical office for the people who are monitoring, and they also need
cell site, and they also need information technologies like radio, just in case may manganganak, in case
may ano, they need access to ambulance they need to be, they need to have as many contacts as
possible so kailangan po ng ganon set-up so these are the things we needed to see and hindi agad agad
yon nakita so yun mga ilan po.

Yung impact ng displacement? Yeah the evacuation has dispersed the marina people, they used to be
very very closed knit and there was a lot of functions happening, there was a lot of mobilization that
would you know like there were in the bangulow which is like the public park of marawi the parang
Mendiola namin, its like wala ng masyadong awareness about Palestine, awareness about ano, there
would be really a lot of students that would gather, so wala na po yung ganong culture of mobilization
that was present in the past that you can gather people, they were happy, they were jogging in that park
theres no park right now that is available so the joy, the culture, the way of life of the people has been
affected na yung very closed knit sila, right now they are really dispersed across the country, across the
world so they really cannot see, you know the normal way of bringing together people is done so hindi
na as many as we can in the past yung mgas ocial functions. And the evacuation really has a great toll on
the health of the people yung mental health ng mga tao knowing that nanakawan yung mga bahay nila,
maraming silang nawalang very precious valuables like the titles, genealogy documents, very precious
documents, these were lost along the way because of the hind inga naprotectionan yung mga bahay,
there was like several entry of the houses in 5 months there was martial law or closure of marawi from
the public so hindi na natin alam sino pumaosk sa mga bahay bahay. So there is a sense of lack of
confidence, they are very afraid of martial law, there is a fear that cause you know you cant really do
much about the lost things that you have and of course yung mga lupa ngayon that we see since it is
really ground zero for the ground zero. You cannot assert your ownership because like there might be
other claimants and you are not really sure if your property is your property, you don’t know whats the
plan, so the lack of consultation, dissemination of the plan, in whats the direction of marawi gives like ah
how do you call it? Uncertainty, fear and insecurity that they may lose what they own, they don’t know
the future, they don’t know if they still own what they own and would they ever have a closure so they
don’t know if they can return to ground zero which is very important samin kasi it is really the location,
the physical location of the graveyard of the elders and the Islamic schools and public markets, and the
parks, yeah.

Yeah the first gunshots of course, from the first gunshots of martial law ang apektado ay mga bata kas
inga the hearing of the children ayan yung pinaka iniiwasan natin, that they would be able to hear
violence and see violence at the front of their eyes in the high way which is a public location in marawi
barangay basak maluklot which is the center of marawi, that is the highway connecting the Mindanao
state university to the downtown proper so the mere fact na doon nagkaroon ng barilan, nagkaroon ng
mga flags that in itself is a traumatizing experience for them so sab inga, its always the children who will
bear the conflict, theres children that were dead from the day 1 so these are very very stark reminders
na yung mga bata hindi agada gad makaksurvive and sila pa nga yung mahihit ng bullets kasi they don’t
know how to run, they don’t know where to run kas inga that was like lunch time or after so its really
like in the middle of the day where people are not really together, its like the children are not with their
parents so they were the ones affected really.

Yeah marami naman, marami naming government programs, NGO programs.

Ano po? Source of? Yeah of course evacuations definitely wala yung ano di ba wala yung physical
location nung market so if you don’t have a market you cant have a livelihood wala kang mabenta so
kanya kanyang bahay maglagay ka ng shop so you know its not as much as yung income noon where
there is like a centralized area where people go and people really have the parks to go to the public
market so lumiit yung livelihood capacity everyday but you know theres many financing naman pero
napakatemporary non kas inga give income today pero wala namng sustainable mechanism yon how to
survive kasi nga konti yung customer.

Well yung current evacuation ngayon shelters are not culturally sensitive because they are very small,
yung families kasi naming malalaki, yung boys and girls dapat physically separated talaga, so yung mga
bahat na sinetup is like very one space sya and theres no like division so very hindi talaga sya culturally
friendly. We are going to design it in such a way I would propose that each person na lang designs his
own evacuation site, so give it to every person to setup his own evacuation housing so that you know
give self reliance to them after 2 years, rather than government pa after 2 naman its always government
building so why not give it to the people to build it. Also in ground zero that’s the very position of ours
per united nations guiding principle so in our internal displacement, please review that the UN guiding
principles, yung NGIDP is we people have the right to return in safety and so theres also protocols that
we have our right to decide you know our what we want in our community so hence its only normal and
its liberation na nga said the president, we should be able to decide again in a democracy what we
choose as our own residence, as our own shelter. Okay, thank you!