Kintarkan Island Appeals for Help

A parish priest in Kinatarkan Island in Santa Fe town, Bantayan Island is appealing for help, saying help has not reached to the thousands of people there.

Parish priest Aladdin Luzon, in a letter to Fr. Tito Soquiño of the Basilica del Santo Niño, said there are 1,190 households in the island’s three barangays that need food, potable water and tents they could sleep on. Luzon said Yolanda wiped out most of the small houses in their small island, leaving about 90 percent of the people homeless.

“The following are the basic, immediate needs of the people: food, safe drinking water and tarps/tents,” read Luzon’s letter to Soquino.

For his part, Soquiño said a team composed of Basilica’s Santo Niño de Cebu Augustinian Social Development Foundation (SNAF), Knight-Stewards of the Sea, Inc, Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc., and other volunteers will be sailing to the island on Monday to give reliefs to the island. Soquino said they hope to provide as much help to the people there, considering that not all relief groups can sail to the small island.