A NEW e-commerce company has joined in rebuilding the lives of Marawi siege victims through its gift-giving campaign.
Dubbed as #OneBoxOneMarawi, the campaign calls for individuals, organizations, or institutions who wanted to help the affected families in the evacuation centers by ordering curated boxes that will provide supplemental support to the affected families through its online portal.
These boxes include food kit, household kit, hygiene kit, children’s kit, sleeping kit, and mattress.
The curated boxes will be delivered to the Maranao family living in temporary shelters and evacuation centers adopted by Beebeelee.com, the Philippines’ newest online shopping platform.
“Beebeelee will be using its e-commerce platform to support communities who are experiencing difficulties due to human- and nature-induced disasters. Hence the undertaking of #OneBoxOneMarawi campaign,” Romeo dela Cruz, community engagement adviser of Beebeelee, told SunStar.
Those who are willing to help the Marawi victims can choose one or a combination of boxes depending on their desired quantity.
Each box is valued at P500 while the sleeping mattress is at P2,500. The goal is to give a complete package or six boxes per family.
The #OneBoxOneMarawi is one of the initiatives of the company under its Believe in Good (BIG) program.
Other than being a “trustworthy marketplace,” Beebeelee will be using its e-commerce platform to support communities who are experiencing difficulties due to human and nature-induced disasters.
According to the company, their program hopes to help as many families as possible.
Beebeelee also aims to bridge opportunities for local merchants and entrepreneurs to offer their products to direct customers and other businesses nationwide, it said.
It also intends to use e-commerce as a tool to assist in the transformation of Philippine communities.
ReliefWeb, the digital service of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), said that six months after the 148-day siege in Marawi, 67 barangays were reportedly opened to returning families.
Citing government data, the organization said that 25,615 families were confirmed to have returned to 35 barangays in Marawi in five clusters with one remaining cluster still undergoing verification.
The World Food Programme (WFP) also said that it has reached the affected victims of Marawi crisis, through general distributions of rice and emergency school feeding for the returning families as part of their early recovery phase.
WFP has provided 8,364 households with 50 kilograms of rice through general food distributions, supporting the displaced population a total of 418.2 metric tonnes of rice for the month of April 2018.
Through their school feeding program, they have also reached 2,584 students in seven schools with 7.9 metric tonnes of rice, with the support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) Food for Peace.
The organization, in April, received a contribution from Australian Government amounting to AUD 1 million (USD 750,000).
WFP aims to help stabilize food security situation of over 28,000 people affected by the Marawi siege through general food distributions, ReliefWeb reported.
On May 23, the country will hold its first commemoration of Marawi siege. (SunStar Philippines)