Ulithi/Fais Trip
Ulithi and Fais are islands to the south of Guam. They are between us and Yap and are outer islands of Yap State, FSM. They got hit hard by Typhoon Maysak last week. By the time it hit them it was a Category 5 Typhoon with sustained winds in the 160 mph range. They are small atoll islands and the strong winds destroyed most of the buildings and all of the crops. They dont have any record of ever being hit with this kind of storm before and they dont have the infrastructure to quickly recover from this kind of disaster. I am going to sail down with as many hand tools as I can gather up and try to help out in any way I can. So far I have a few tarps and some hammers and tin snips. They are asking for chain saws and PVC pipe among other things. We started an indiegogo campaign to raise money to buy tools.
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Our friend Brad Holland has been to the islands and has shared some of his photographs.
Link to donate didn’t work!
Sorry, Justin! Here’s the proper link!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/if-i-had-a-hammer-typhoon-maysak-assist-ulithi
I know people will be grateful for anyway you can help. Look forward to getting updates on this blog on the progress in rebuilding. – that is assuming you have some internet there. If not you will have to relay messages and we can update the blog from stateside. Was happy to hear about the grant to help with purchase of chainsaws.
Julie
The link for the fundraising didn’t work!
Here’s a good link!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/if-i-had-a-hammer-typhoon-maysak-assist-ulithi
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Oops! Here’s a good link, Miguel!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/if-i-had-a-hammer-typhoon-maysak-assist-ulithi