After providing for the immediate needs in Leyte after Typhoon Yolanda, the foundation’s attention to reconstruction resulted in the turnover of a new multi-purpose building to the residents of Barangay Holy Child II, in the town of Alangalang. The Dr. Lucio C. Tan Building now houses the barangay hall and a day care facility. Alangalang is an agricultural municipality in Leyte whose residents have always suffered from the effects of typhoons and floods that destroy their crops and properties.

    Affected by the super typhoon as well, beneficiaries of the foundation’s  housing project in Barangay 89 and 90 in Tacloban City will now sleep much easier. The foundation successfully completed permanent homes for sixty families who lost their homes and some members of their families after the storm surge struck the city. The project has benefitted marginalized residents who are mostly fisherfolk, small vendors, pedicab drivers and sari-sari store owners.

Ako po ay lubos na nagpapasalamat kay Ginoong Lucio Tan.  Binigyan kami ng konkretong bahay.  Sa loob ng dalawang taon ngayon lang kami nakatulog ng mahimbing dahil hindi na kami matutuluan tuwing umuulan at hindi kami lalamigin sa simoy ng hangin. Kahit nawala ang mahal kong asawa na tinangay  ng bagyong Yolanda, dahan-dahan naman kaming nakakaahon ng mga anak ko dahil meron na kaming bagong bahay na matitirahan muli.
—Sunny A. Canillo
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In line with its three-year Rebuilding the Community Project, the Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc.(TYKFI), recently turned over a multi-purpose edifice named Dr. Lucio C. Tan Building  to the people of Barangay Holy Child II in  Alangalang, Leyte. The building which initially would serve as a barangay hall will also house a day care facility and a health clinic.