Water trucking to cut-off barangays
Roads collapsed north of Bantay. Two tanker teams run daily loops to villages the main convoys cannot reach.
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The ground shook. The clock started.
A 6.9 earthquake struck northern Luzon on July 15. Meridian teams are on the ground now, moving clean water, tarps, and medical kits to 40,000 people who lost their homes overnight.
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72-hour emergency fund
$182,540of $250,000 goal
3,204 donorsCloses July 19, 6:00 PM local
What your gift moves
- $50 — 30 days of clean water for one family
- $120 — an emergency shelter tarp kit
- $500 — a mobile medical resupply for a field clinic
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Situation report — Day 5
The response in numbers
Figures verified by field coordinators and updated at 08:00 daily. Last update July 20, 08:00 PHT.
40,000
People displaced by the quake
12,800
Liters of clean water delivered
6
Field teams active across two provinces
34hrs
From alert to first supplies on site
Where your money goes
Every dollar, accounted for
Overhead stays under 9%. The remaining 91 cents of every dollar reaches the field as water, shelter, medicine, and logistics. Full financials are published quarterly.
See our workWater & sanitation38%
Emergency shelter27%
Medical & clinics18%
Logistics & transport8%
Administration9%
Where we are workingIlocos Sur Abra Vigan hub
Three fronts, one operation
Field clinic and trauma triage
A mobile clinic in Bangued treats crush injuries and restocks rural health units that lost their pharmacies.
Follow this frontShelter kit staging and dispatch
A warehouse at the Vigan airfield receives tarps and hygiene kits, packs family bundles, and pushes them out by truck.
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Filed from the field
Time-stamped in Philippine Standard Time. New entries post as teams check in.
- July 20, 08:00Field
First water convoy reaches Bantay
Two tankers cleared the collapsed coastal road at dawn and delivered 12,000 liters to three barangays. A second run is scheduled for the afternoon.
When the road opened, the water was already loaded. That is the difference between a plan and a promise.
Rosa VillanuevaLogistics coordinator, Vigan hub
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