Hundreds of families still homeless, Karen checks on Sendong victims in CDO for "Krusada"

CEBU, Philippines - Broadcast journalist Karen Davila returns to Cagayan de Oro City to check on the victims of typhoon Sendong and see how they have so far recovered from the calamity tonight in “Krusada.”

Seven months after typhoon Sendong battered some parts of Mindanao, Karen visits the areas where she was sent to last December to give updates on the condition of the victims.

Hundreds of families left homeless by the typhoon are now cramming in tent cities, which serve as their temporary shelters, and have to suffer from extreme heat under the sun and flood waters sometimes seeping through their tents.

One of the survivors, Ethel Sala, lives with her husband and six children in a tent. While the disaster financially incapacitated her family, it also left them psychological traumatized and constantly terrified.

“Our lives will only become normal again when we have a proper home where my children can sleep soundly. Sendong has scared us so much that we’re frightened and can’t sleep when it rains hard,” said Ethel.

Even though the government and Habitat for Humanity have supposedly approved the construction of a 3,000-unit housing project in CDO, some tent city evacuees claim that some people are trying to win the favor of the sponsors in order to acquire a unit. How and when are they going to get their lives back on track?

Because it takes more than words to take a stand, watch “Krusada” tonight after “Bandila” on ABS-CBN or watch it earlier on DZMM TeleRadyo (SkyCable Channel 26).