The Community Organizers Multiversity and Oxfam Pilipinas, with funding support from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), distributed multipurpose cash assistance to families in several barangays in Dipaculao, Aurora last week.
Concepcion Amarillo is a 62-year-old broom maker from Barangay Dianed, Dipaculao, Aurora province. Nanay Concepcion shared that they couldn’t afford maintenance medicines for her and her husband, as well as milk for their grandson, on their small earnings from broom making and coconut farming. This was after their coconut livelihood was destroyed first by Typhoon Man-yi (Bagyong Pepito) in 2024, then again by Typhoon Fung-wong (Bagyong Uwan) in December 2025.
She was one of the project participants who received multi-purpose cash assistance amounting to Php 10,000 from the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID)-funded project “Emergency Response to Compounding Crises in the Philippines: Addressing the Cumulative Impact of Multiple Disasters and Super Typhoon Fung-Wong” with Community Organizers Multiversity and Oxfam Pilipinas.
According to her, the multipurpose cash assistance enabled her to prioritize her family’s health and basic needs, while also allowing her to save some amount to build an emergency fund so they can be ready for the future.
(Photos: Jhie Durana/Oxfam Pilipinas)
