Who is Farmers Relief ?

By Ana Morgan

Leyte, Philippines

February 12, 2024

I would want to know as well before making a donation, especially in this period where scams are not part of our lives.

On November 8th, 2013, the most powerful typhoon hit The Philippines taking the lives of 8,000 and impacting nearly 20 million people. A group of us got together raising money to rebuild homes and distribute food throughout several devastated islands.

I remember the chaos that Hurricane Alicia left behind after she hit the coast of Texas, back in the 80s. People were traumatized for years.

Yolanda was far worse. The impact was so strong that we got stuck for a week in another country and began raising money from Cambodia until we could fly out. Yolanda had left nothing standing in Ormoc that we had to sleep on the cement of a parking lot next to young children who had lost everything. Sadly, the poorest always gets hit the hardest.

That's when we along with a group of local parents got together to form Ormoc Relief to distribute rice and rebuild homes around towns from emergency donations from around the world. None of this could have happened without the immense support of the Palanas Farmers Association (PFA) and their distribution center & network!

Months later, the network joined hand as Farmers Relief and extended to a few countries in Central Africa sending seeds of cassava to several small groups of isolated farmers who had found us online. Unfortunaly, our original web domain name farmersrelief.ORG had been stolen from us while away during a recovery mission for months, so we rebuilt the site and opted for a more secured one with this one: farmersrelief.US

However, after several years of persistence, we finally were able to get our hands on the original web domain which thousands of people were already familiar with.

This year will be approached differently, adding a bit of technology and even crypto to create projects for local farmers and eventually cross to other local islands by the end of 2025.

"He who cultivates the land shall have plenty of bread", hence next year, we will try to provide some necessary seeds to the farmers again.

Ana Morgan