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       Quinapondan is located at the Southern Part of Eastern Samar. The Municipality is plain to moderately hilly. It is bounded in the North – Municipality of Gen. Macarthur; South – Leyte Gulf; East – Municipality of Salcedo; and West – Municipality of Giporlos.
        Its town proper sits on the plain beside the Quinapondan River surrounded by vast Rice Fields and considered the rice granary in the Southern Municipalities of the Province. Few kilometers to the south are the municipal water.
        Quinapondan is composed of 25 Barangays, and has Land Area of 8,423 hectares. Quinapondan is considered a fifth class in terms of its income class. 65% of Quinapondananon primary employment sources is Farming and Fishing.

Quinapondan need Food, Shelter, Medicines, and Alternative Livelihood for farmers and Fisher Folks, rebuild basic infrastructure facilities and restore normal social services.

 

  1. Provision of Continuing Relief Goods (food packs) is still necessary. The people need sufficient food supply while still in state of recovery from the calamity.

  2. Provision of housing materials to poor homeless families. Homeless families need housing materials like roofing lumber and plywood, nails and other similar house building materials.

  3. The need for immediate employment or source of income is very necessary in order to cover the cost of living of the typhoon victims like school expenses, electric bills, and other daily miscellaneous expenses requirement of the family.

 

Post Disaster Immediate Needs

BRIEF PROFILE OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF QUINAPONDAN

Quinapondan Before Super typhoon "Yolanda"

             On November 8, 2013 when super typhoon Yolanda hit Eastern Visayas, Quinapondan was one of the municipalities in Eastern Samar that was heavily devastated, leaving 2,377 homeless families. The typhoon brings wide extent of devastation taking over six thousand lives and trillions of peso damage of properties in the Philippines. In Quinapondan alone, ten people died, 190 injured and about 78 percent of the families are homeless.

Quinapondan After Super typhoon "Yolanda"

LGU QUINAPONDAN PRIORITY PROJECTS

(REHABILITATION & RECOVERY EFFORTS OF THE LGU)

ON HEALTH FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENTS

  1. Reconstruction/Rehabilitation of Community Hospital

  2. Rehabilitation of Rural Health Unit

  3. Rehabilitation/Reconstruction of four (4) Barangay Health Center.

  4. Provision of damaged furniture’s & equipments such as; BP Apparatus with stand, Weighing Scales, Chargeable Emergency Lamp and Thermometers.

 

ON EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES

  1. Reconstruction/Rehabilitation of School Buildings. School Buildings shall be typhoon resilient. If possible as the same might be expected to use as evacuation centers.

 

ON PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURES

Reconstruction/Restoration of the following:

  1. Municipal Building

  2. Civic Center/Municipal Covered Court

  3. Association of Barangay Council Hall (ABC Hall)

  4. Municipal Health Center

  5. Food Terminal

  6. PNP Municipal Station

  7. Cultural Stage

  8. Street Lighting along National Higway

  9. Quinapondan Level III Watwer System

           Construction of reservoir

           Filtration Tank & Chlorinator

           Transmission & Distribution Lines

  1. Slaughter House

  2. Rechannelling of Quinapondan River

  3. Construction of Sea Wall at Brgy. Naga & Brgy. Sto. Niño

  4. Municipal Port

  5. Waiting Sheds

  6. River Control along river banks of Brgy. 05 & Brgy. Bagte to prevent river bank erosion

  7. FMR’s (brgy. 07 – Brgy. Anislag), (Brgy. Bagte-Brgy. Cambilla) (Palactad-Sta. Margarita)

  8. FMR Construction of Evacuation Center

  9. Construction of Senior Citizens Building

  10. Construction of Bridges at Cadac-an, Langawisan and Apologon.

 

Construction/restoration of these public infrastructures shall be typhoon resilient or strong to withstand calamities like typhoon Yolanda. Acquisition of heavy equipments i.e. Payloader and Bulldozer is needed.

 

ON AGRICULTURE

  • CROPS

    Provision of seeds/seedlings to 5,186            farmers.

  1. Certified seeds for Rice

  2. Coconut (coco seedlings

  3. Root crops (sweet potato & Cassava)

  4. Vegetables (Squash, AMpalaya, Eggplant Okra, Pechay Tomato Pole Sitao, Bush Sitao)

  5. Corn (OPV – white & sweet corn)

  6. Fruit trees (Jackfruit, Cacao, coffee seedlings and rambutan seedlings)

 

  • LIVESTOCK/POULTRY

  1. Provision of start-up stocks for livestock & Poultry.

  2. Dispersal of Carabao, Cattle Goat and Duck.

 

  • FISHERIES

  1. Provision of boats and fishing gears i.e. gill nets and pots.

  2. Restoration of fish corrals, fish pens and fish cages.

  3. Restoration of MPAs demarcation lines and guard houses.

  4. Acquisition of Patrol Boats.

 

           Public facilities like school buildings, hospital, health centers, government offices, churches has also been destructed. 

                The town has been isolated for almost a week, no power supply,  no communication and transportation  following the calamity. The people panic for survival. There was shortage of food supply fuels, drinking water and medicines. Only after a week relief starts arriving for the towns’ people. 

                  Quinapondan has a total population of 16,205, it has 3,423 numbers of families that are greatly affected by the super typhoon. Some families creates temporary shelter on roadsides using the debris from ruined houses and coco leaves just to comport themselves from rain and sunlight. 

         At present, the Local Government of Quinapondan have come up with a comprehensive rehabilitation & recovery plan strategy to strengthen and restore economic status of the municipality by providing Financial Assistance in building permanent shelters improve and rehabilitate public infrastructure and restore food sufficiency and sustainability. Our main objective is to HELP TYPHOON VICTIMS RECOVER AND RETURN TO THE NORMAL WAY OF LIVING. However, funds from the Municipal Government are INSUFFICIENT to finance all of the immediate needs of our Municipality. We need to reach out and appeal from outside sources and donors.

 

             For inquiries and information to those who are willing to extend assistance and support, you may contact the following numbers:

 

+639296203873

+639215307774

+639072729523

 

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO ALL VICTIMS OF TYPHOON YOLANDA.

            Almost 100 percent of coconut industries and agriculture was devastated.

SAKSI NEWS: Quinapondan napasok ng GMA News

school buildings ravaged

school buildings ravaged

only a saint left from this church

only a saint left from this church

Brgy. Sto. Niño plaza

Brgy. Sto. Niño plaza

before & after police station

before & after police station

Quinapondan National high school.jpg

Quinapondan National high school.jpg

office damage at LGU

office damage at LGU

elementary schools devastated

elementary schools devastated

before & after Public Plaza

before & after Public Plaza

LGU Office

LGU Office

Quinapondan Public Plaza ravaged

Quinapondan Public Plaza ravaged

quinapondan public plaza

quinapondan public plaza

school buildings standing w/o roofs

school buildings standing w/o roofs

school buildings devastated

school buildings devastated

school buildings damaged

school buildings damaged

school buildings

school buildings

school buildings

school buildings

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