Last week the alert level was lowered from level 4 to level 3. This means in practice that evacuees living between the 14 km and 7 km distance from Taal Volcano are allowed to go back.

It was just yesterday, Monday 3 February, that volcanologists warned that the eruption could happen in weeks because of the heightened activity again. Between Sunday and Monday at least 120 tremors rocked Taal volcano The strongest tremors were intensity 4, measured in neighboring villages.

We have the master list of the evacuees that are staying in Paraiso, which is the plaice we have been providing food to before. This is the group of children that we like to concentrate our efforts on ideally when they are able to return home. Their homes and schools are in a very bad state, damaged and buried by the ash fall.