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Help Calamity Victims in the Philippines

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Philippines still needs help.  It needs any donation you are willing to give as its people are trying to recover from the utter destruction caused by typhoon Ketsana (local name: Ondoy).  Millions of properties were damaged and too many people lost their homes.  About 288 people were killed.  Still more help is needed  in the Northern part of the country affected by another typhoon Parma (local name: Pepeng).

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Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos are also in need of help. If we can all offer something to help these nations, it won’t really be that hard for the victims to recover.  Many people are starting to rebuild their lives. Let’s do our part to give these people hope.

The items listed are considered priority goods to be donated:

  • Bread
  • Bottled Water
  • Baby Milk formula
  • Canned goods
  • Medicines
  • Clothes

Anyone interested/committed to give donation may coordinate with me on how to send your donations.  Please email me at:  papertiger112609@gmail.com.

Or you may send donations in kind through Victory Christian Fellowship.

For those interested in making bank donations, please follow the following instructions:

PESO ACCOUNT
Account name: Victory Christian Fellowship
Account no: Current acct no. 0821-0298-13
Bank name:  Bank of the Philippine Islands
Bank address: Fort Serendra Branch Ground Floor Serendra Retail Area Bonifacio Global City. Taguig City

DOLLAR ACCOUNT
Account Name: Victory Christian Fellowship
Account Number:  Dollar savings account no. 0824-0542-58
Swift code: BOPIPHMM
Bank Name: Bank of the Philippine Islands
Bank Address: Fort Serendra Branch Ground Floor Serendra Retail Area Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City

Please email carol.almadin@everynation.org.ph with the following information so that we can confirm your deposit:

Your name
How you learned of VCF Relief Operation
The Name of the Organization on behalf of whom you’re giving the donation (if applicable)
The dollar or peso amount deposited
Date deposited
Bank branch

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This group continues to receive donations for their relief operations in areas most affected by typhoon Ondoy.  For the next days, they will still be distributing donations to areas that are still submerged in flood water and to evacuation sites.  It’s not yet to late to offer your help.

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I, on behalf of the NanoAid Disaster Relief (team Philippines), express gratitude to Mr. Matt Dotson for offering help to our countrymen who are now recovering from loss due to Ondoy.  He has started the movement and if more people like him around the globe will extend help, the calamity victims won’t have a hard time recovering.

Any help will do. Cash or kind, it doesn’t matter. Used clothes, used slippers/shoes, toys for the kids, food …anything… will be much much appreciated.

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Soliciting Help for Typhoon Ketsana Victims

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

We have been spared of another tragedy by the super typhoon Parma, but, the damages typhoon Ondoy left are still felt.  Countless families are without homes and are staying in public schools with not enough bathrooms to use.  The food donations being sent are, most of the time, not enough. More and more are getting sick.  Poor evacuees have to struggle to get to the front of the long lines just to secure their families nourishment for the day.

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I appeal to those who have kind hearts to send anything you are willing to give away. Used clothes and shoes are fine.  Some amount you can afford to donate is also appreciated.  Please stop sending your donations to big organizations and bodies as they have already received so much than they can afford to manage. The donations, both cash and kind, being sent to them are just being hoarded (not necessarily intentional), while many of the victims still suffer.  This is because there are just too many donations already on hand than they are ready to immediately dispatch.

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If donations were just consigned to different groups, instead of to just one group or organization, more victims could have been reached.  But, sadly, this is not what is happening.  Which is why, we are here to act, first individually; and then, collaborate with more individuals (or coordinate with those who have means to transport the goods) to distribute the relief goods.  I have already done my part by donating ready-to-eat food, drinks and clothes from my own pocket.  I only had to spend  $110. Although, it’s not enough to feed the thousands of evacuees, it helped to ease hunger of some hundreds of the flood victims. If every one of us will voluntarily give the same amount, or even less, the total would already be  such a big help.

Please coordinate with me (or anyone from NanoAid) through this blog  if you wish to extend help.  You may also email me at papertiger112609@gmail.com.

This is the best time to take action.

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No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Another super typhoon (Parma) is expected to come anytime today until tomorrow later morning or early afternoon. My countrymen have not yet recovered and most have not even been rescued, yet, from the destruction caused by tropical storm Ketsana (local name: Ondoy).  Still so many are missing.  Too many are stuck in evacuation centers with little or no food. Children are going hungry and diseases are becoming rampant.  Lavatories are inadequate for the thousands of displaced people in each evacuation area. Not enough medicines for all who started to get sick.  Many places are still submerged in flood waters and there are people trapped without food and drinks for days.  Countless have lost their houses and properties. Most hospitals and clinics in the widely affected areas have also halted their operations.

Ketsana CNN Report

This is just a picture of what became of the Northern part of the Philippines.  How can these people recover?

We all can do something with our own little efforts. It doesn’t have to be grand. Whatever you can share/give, will be more than helpful.

“The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry man; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the man who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the man who has none; the money which you hoard in the bank belongs to the poor. You do wrong to everyone you could help, but fail to help.”  ~ St. Basil the Great

The question for all us now is what can we do to help?

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You can do something to help.

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

When you are given the opportunity to lend a hand, grab it. This is the same thing I am tasked to do. Someone with the heart for those in need offered his help to reach out to the victims of tropical storm Ketsana through me.

I am one of the lucky few who was given the challenge to think of ways to extend help to the Filipino flood victims. Such a privilege.

One way I know how to help is to provide the people in the evacuation centers their basic needs like food, safe drinking water and medicines. I am going to make use of the money he offered to cook meals for the hundreds of children and old people in the area. They need nutrition more. Drinks and medicines will also be provided.

More and more donations are being received by big and influential companies, especially, the media. They receive huge amounts of funds and they can encourage people to volunteer. We don’t really need to be part of them. We can act and help in our own little ways. With our own best efforts.

No need to risk our own safety and health. If you know anyone who lost everything, why not offer your house, your clothes, your shoes, your food and whatever else you can share? Start with these people and feel the joy in giving and sharing.

This is the best time to show that we are involved. We’ll never know when we are going to be in the same situation. It’s when we are already experiencing the same that we will realize how comforting it is to know and feel that people care. There is no need to wait for that time to realize this. Let’s act now. We can do something.

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