Posts by Louise Joachimowski
Beyond Relief: ICM Launches Recovery Program for Typhoon Odette Survivors
Manila, 8 February 2022 – International Care Ministries (ICM), a non-profit organization working with the ultra-poor in Visayas and Mindanao, held a virtual launch on 8 February 2022 for its Recover Program for the survivors of Typhoon Odette (International name Rai) attended by government agencies, local government units, and private and corporate foundations. The Recover…
Read MoreTaking Care of Others Even While In Need
ICM’s staff in the bases weren’t spared from Typhoon Odette’s wrath. Still, even as their homes were damaged or in ruins, they knew that families in our communities were suffering and so they got up and went to work. Xander is the Area Head of our Bohol base and is doing relief work in one…
Read MoreSending Help to Siargao
“I don’t know where to begin,” a survivor of Typhoon Odette in Siargao Island said to ICM Area Head Marites Petallar when she went there last week to bring relief and building supplies. Not even a single post of his house was saved. More than a month since the supertyphoon made landfall in Siargao, the…
Read MoreHelping those who Help Us
It is no secret that ICM is able to do the work we do and help as many people as we have because of our partnership with the compassionate and hardworking partner pastors. They’re the ones who host the Transform program in our communities and sustain the impact of the program after. During the pandemic…
Read MoreA Typhoon Odette Survivor’s Story: Rebecca from Negros Oriental
Stories from the survivors of the recent Typhoon Odette are coming in. Typhoon Odette, 2021’s strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines, cut a swath of destruction across the provinces where ICM has been holding Transform programs among ultra-poor communities. Too many of our communities are now suffering in the aftermath of the typhoon, including our…
Read MoreAfter Typhoon Odette – Stories from the bases
Typhoon Odette (international name “Rai”), the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines in 2021 had carved out a trail of destruction across several provinces in the central Philippines last December 17. It left 407 dead as of January 3, and over half a million displaced. The provinces are far from recovered. Power is still not…
Read MoreInternational Care Ministries Mobilizes Thousands of Partners for Typhoon Odette Relief Operations
On December 17, 2021, Category 5 typhoon Odette (international name Typhoon Rai) made landfall in the Philippines and wreaked devastation in the Visayas and Mindanao Region of the Philippines. It was one of the strongest and deadliest typhoons in recent years, forcing over 300,000 people to flee their homes, leaving hundreds dead and millions of…
Read MoreKingly Treasures to Benefit the Ultra-poor
Leon Gallery, the Philippines’ most trusted auction house, invites you to participate in an important segment of its The Kingly Treasures Auction on December 4, 2021, at 2 PM for a generous cause. Fifteen lots are up for bids to raise funds for the International Care Ministries’ humanitarian work for the “poorest of the poor” in the…
Read MoreICM in ZEP 2030 6th General Assembly Learning Sessions
This month, ICM took part in Zero Extreme Poverty PH 2030’s 6th General Assembly Learning sessions on poverty alleviation programs— our Director of Education Anna Alegre was one of the speakers for the education learning session: From School to Home; How might we create a better normal in education; our Strategic Partnership team taking the…
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