When Super Typhoon Yolanda hit the island of Leyte, Operation Blessing was among the first to organize relief efforts. But the assistance did not end there. We constructed the Community of Hope (COH), a community development project for Yolanda’s most severely...
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down face-to-face classes in 2020, Community of Hope (COH) resident Juna Gamboa made an important decision for her children. “I had to give up my work in pharmacy for 8 years to help my children with their learning modules,” she shared....
“I feel so blessed! We are part of the last batch to arrive at the Community of Hope (COH), but blessings continue to overflow. We now have electricity, the road was fixed and cemented, and now there is livelihood assistance for us,” shares Jacob Tonido gleefully....
Liza Mabini, 54, sells vegetables in Tacloban City Market with her husband, Romeo. They are both hard-working and very hands-on in their business. The Mabini family is one of the 97 families residing in Operation Blessing’s Community of Hope (COH) in Palanog. COH is...
Gemmalyn Capili is one of the beneficiaries of Community of Hope (COH), a relocation program of Operation Blessing for the benefit of the victims of supertyphoon Yolanda. She shares that the constraints the pandemic brought them have made their lives more difficult....
Ana, and her husband, Rolly, and their 4 young children live in the impoverished area of San Isidro, Northern Samar. Their life has been marked by constant financial strain. Although Rolly has a regular job in a construction company, still they barely manage to scrape...
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