A Picture speaks louder than words !

Pictures speak louder than words. This is the story about two little boys, Dino 6 years old and John Ross 3...... In just four months their lives is turned upside down and their pain has no end.

In the beginning of August 2021 their mom went to visit her parents on a different island. On the 20th of August they lost their beloved Daddy to Covid 19 and had to watch people looking like moon-men carrying him out in a body bag, then spray the house and burn toys and mattresses etc. They then had to stay for 3 weeks in quarantine, alone with a babysitter, missing mommy and daddy, cried themselves to sleep every night.

Finally, the grandma and aunt could come and pick them up, pack the house and travel many hours to their new home, to their mommy in Looc, Southern Leyte.

Dino spoke to grandma Elizabeth in the US on his new Tablet every day, and went to school. He was the best in class and proud of it. The boys had a memorial for Daddy and pictures of him on the wall, missing him every day.

In December they bought a small Christmas tree, and looked forward to make Norwegian Christmas dinner like Daddy always did, because that's where he is from.

But nature had other plans....On December 15, Monster Typhone Rai hit their Island with 165 miles per hour winds (265 km) and destroyed their home, most houses on the island, the school, food stores and their grandpa's boat where he fished for food for the family. All coconut trees went down, it was the family's only source of income. The shelter they entered had half the roof blown off.....so they were wet, and in shock. Dino cried for Daddy in Heaven to come and help him.

The houses are gone, their roads are destroyed and people have no-where to go.

The wind took their clothes, toys and their belongings, and there is no more school.

Today it looks like a deserted island, no homes, no people, but the boys have no other place to go.

My name is Elizabeth Pedersen Soroy, I am a proud mother to a son in Heaven. His name is Morten Pedersen. He did not want to leave his two boys, but Covid 19 did not leave him a choice.

I am trying to raise money for the family to re-build a home, get toys, clothes, shoes, and internet so at least Dino can go to school online until school is restored there.

I wish I had wings, so I could fly and take them with me to the US, but I spent all I have to help them there. Hopefully, some day I will meet then and give them big hugs. I have never met my two boys, just talked with them every day on the laptop since they were born. They are so kind and so nice, and I am proud of them.

They have gone through so much in their short lives, I hope, that with your help, life will get better for these two boys who lost their daddy and everything they had in such a short time.

It hurts to see them cry, I have one New-Year wish, to see them smile again.

Thank You for reading their story, God Bless !!