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| The jerrycans rescued by those men who saved us. Photo taken by my communications colleague, Kuya Jay Mijares. |
Our boat capsized and blue-colored jerrycans immediately scattered as they floated away in the river. And in less than a minute, men jumped in, braving the deep and murky river while we hold on the side of our capsized boat for our dear lives: This scene keeps flashing on my mind until now. It was a close call since I know for sure that I do not have any swimming skill at all. I was thinking how could I ever get out of this?
It has been so vivid to me because those men are affected by the devastation brought by Typhoon Pablo. They are the very people whom we seriously considered helping since last week as we respond to typhoon survivors here in Agusan del Sur.
But I never imagined that those people who we are reaching out are the very same ones who will save us from this morning's boat mishap that we experienced.
When our boat capsized in a 10-ft-deep Simulao River at around 9:00 o'clock this morning, me and my colleagues along with the nurses were supposed to head towards the floating village where indigenous people live within Agusan Marsh, to bring clean and safe water to them who were isolated by the flood waters. It is a crocodile-infested river where Lolong, the biggest and longest crocodile in the world was rescued. It is a village where people are in scarcity of clean and safe water.
Unfortunately we were not able to make it as our boat sank.
Our rescuers were so brave that their courage makes me more courageous and determined to go to the floating village despite the experience we had this morning. Those people in the village are waiting for us and we will continue to respond and save them from sickness brought by unsafe and dirty clean water.
They saved us and now is our turn to save them as a gratitude to those brave souls in the village who risked their limbs and their lives to save us. And of course thank you to My Ultimate Buddy-God- for His divine protection, I felt it.
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| The team prepares the jerrycans with community volunteers as we were about to travel by boat for an hour to the tribal floating village. |
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| Heading to the floating community with this 10-feet deep and murky river. |
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| My colleague, Kuya Jay Mijares, after we were rescued by the villagers. |
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| Boatmen/villagers retrieve the sank boat. |
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| The team after we were rescued.Thank God everyone is safe. |
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| World Vision staff health workers try to salvage those medicines after the boat capsized. |
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| The gears which were soaked in the murky river. |
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