Life after Typhoon Odette was almost unbearable for families like Gaudencia’s. Their home was the most precious to them and losing it, together with everything they built, made it even harder for them to bounce back from the impact of the disaster. When Gaudencia learned about the housing project under Habitat Philippines’ Typhoon Odette Disaster Response Program, she was filled with hope and was ‘happy to hear the news’.

When the Padre Burgos National Technical Vocational High School (PBNTVHS) sustained damages from the impact of Typhoon Rai (local name: Odette) in 2021, its faculty and students were devastated. Through the funding from Wells Fargo Philippines, in coordination with the Department of Education Region VIII and the local government of Padre Burgos, repairs of the six classrooms commenced under the Typhoon Rai Disaster Response Program.

For a long time, Rodelio and Marivic’s family called the sugarcane plantations of Panaogao, Silay their home. But in 2009, the family faced a big change when the hacienderos demolished the farmers’ houses, forcing Rodelio's family to and live by the creek for ten years. In January 2019, news came that they qualified for a Habitat housing project, and since then, a new hope has ignited.