UPDATED: Bayanihan iPhone Project for Ondoy. Submitted.

I am a programmer currently in Melbourne, Australia hoping to raise awareness for the victims affected by typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana-international name). Experiencing a flood is not new to me as I was born and raised in Tumana, Marikina, Metro Manila. I was in primary school, when I could vividly remember my mother cooking and serving porridge to typhoon victims as our backyard was called “high ground” since it is near the main road (JP Rizal).

I was in college when Tumana bridge was built and helped me travel from my house to the University. Unfortunately, the river would swell and the flood would swallow the whole bridge after 2-3 days of rain. I called my mother on Sept 27 and was informed the typhoon poured over a whole month of rain in just a few hours! Don’t worry my mother is fine, however, there are those who are unfortunate enough who desperately call for our help. In my small way by making this application, I would like to show my support for them.

I’m almost finished with the Bayanihan iPhone project which I worked on over the weekend. It is a very simple app with scrollable images. The server side is almost finished and would display how many supported/downloaded the application in real time. I am hoping to upload the server side to my Linode hosting in the US asap.

How can you help? I need pictures! Pictures from Tumana would be greatly appreciated, however, if you have other pictures, please do send them as well. I will be bundling 10 pictures inside the application. Please include your name, with subject: BAYANIHAN pix and send the pictures to my email address: rndguzmanjr@gmail.com

Hopefully I can submit the app to Apple within this week or early next week. Afterwards, we wait for the approval process within 2 weeks. Note, the app would be FREE.

UPDATE OCT-05-2009 9:00PM
I took some pictures from facebook and dropped it in the project. It would look something like this when it is finished.

UPDATE OCT-11-2009
- Included proper credits for each photograph.
- Added Admob.
- Created logo, large application icon.

UPDATE OCT-12-2009
Preparing for appstore submission..

UPDATE OCT-13-2009
Submitted in AppStore. Currently, In-Review.