Want to help the typhoon victims but don’t know how or where to start? Here’s a link to a map maintained by a group of volunteer map makers where you may view updates regarding the flooded areas:
http://www.google.com/landing/typhoon-ondoy.html
A form has been provided to those who would like to report status of flood in affected areas or locations of persons needing urgent help and assistance.
Things you may want to donate:
1.) Towels
2.) Blankets
3.) Clothing (old but wearable)
4.) Canned Goods (with pull tab cover as there are no can openers available in relief centers)
5.) Bottled Water
6.) Instant Noodles (preferrably in bowl packaging like Nissin or Lucky Me)
7.) Bread
8.) Coffee
9.) Multivitamins especially Vitamin C
10.) Over the counter Medicines (Paracetamol, Ibuprofen, Loperamide)
11.) Slippers / Footwear
For babies/toddlers
12.) Milk/ Infant Formula
13.) Diapers
Here’s a list of Organizations / Foundations you may call or contact for donations / assistance:
USA Residents may help by calling:
1.) ABS-CBN Foundation USA toll-free 1-800-527-2820
2.) American Red Cross call 1-800-435-7669
Local donors / volunteers may contact any of the following:
1.) Philippine National Red Cross
Visit any of their branches to become a volunteer or send donations using your mobile phone: text RED AMOUNT and send to 2899 (GLOBE/TM) and 4483 (SMART/ TNT). Globe is accepting P300 txt donation.
2.) Radio Veritas
Veritas Tower , West Ave. cor EDSA
Look For: Karla Turingan
Hotlines: 9257931 to 39, 0918VERITAS
Operations: 24-hours, tentatively until Tuesday.
3.) Citizens Disaster Response Center (CDRC)
72-A Times St., West Triangle Homes , QC
Hotlines: 9299820, 9299822
Operations: 8 a.m. onwards
4.) Tulong Bayan
Balay Expo Center, EDSA (northbound) cor. Gen McArthur, Araneta Center (right across Samson College) or visit WhiteSpace 2314 Pasong Tamo Ext. beside Faith Christian School
Hotline: 09175273906/ 09086579998/ 9137122/ 9136254/ 9133306
Operations: Come as early as 8:00 a.m.
Open to volunteers/ cash and goods donation
5.) World Vision Philippines
Quezon Avenue (near Delta Theatre)
Open to volunteers/ cash and goods donation
6.) Victory Fellowship- Fort Bonifacio
Victory Fellowship, Every Nation Building , across from Market-Market, Fort Bonifacio
Look for: Pastor Bernard Marquez
Hotlines: 813-FORT, 8171212
Operations: Tentatively until 5pm may may extend hours. Entire week until Friday.
Website: www.twitter.com/VictoryFort
7.) Corporate Network for Disaster Response
Donate cash through BPI Ayala-Paseo Branch with account number 0031 0654 02
8.) Brainbeam Events
2F MB Aguirre Cornerhouse Bldg 15, President Ave. cor Elizalde St. BF Pque. Across old Caltex
Goods donation
9.) Luzon Relief
Renaissance Fitness Center, 2F, Bramante Bldg., Renaissance Towers, Ortigas, Meralco Ave., Pasig City
Hotline: 0929-8713488
Operations: 9am to 7pm Daily
Open to volunteers/goods donation
10.) ABS-CBN
You may assist in packing relief goods at Sagip Kapamilya at #13 Examiner St. They are also looking for people willing to go to provinces and distribute the goods.
11.) The Philippine Daily Inquirer Office or a McDonald’s Branch
1098 Chino Roces Ave. cor. Mascardo and Yague Streets, Makati City or any of its classified ads branches or any Mcdonald’s Branch within Metro Manila
Hotline: 8978808 loc.260 and look for Megi Garcia
12.) Ateneo De Manila
Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights , Quezon City,
Manuel V. Pangilinan Building Center for Student Leadership Lobby
University Dorm Cervini Hall
Hotlines: 09089977166, 09178952792, 4266001 local 5050
Operations: 24-hours operations for the entire week.
13.) Petron 2Go:
Visit any Petron or 2GO Branches to drop off your donations.
14.) OPLAN: Sagip Metro DLSZ (Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa) and LSGH (Greenhills) are now accepting relief goods and looking for volunteers from 8am to 6pm. DLSU- Manila (Taft Avenue) will accept relief goods as early as 8:00 A.M. at South Gate
MISSING PERSONS DATABASE:
To those still in search of family members, relatives or friends who may have been in the affected areas during the storm, you may look for their names in the database provided for and maintained by GMA News TV. Please visit their website- http://www.gmanews.tv to access the database and instructions on how to use it.
Ateneo also has a directory of Ondoy Victims:http://ateneotaskforceondoy.misa.org.ph/
Please make sure to read the guidelines for system usage.
God bless you all! Be safe always!
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Inset photo source: http://www.javno.com
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Things you should know before sending your donations:
http://diskorner.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-to-donate.html
Blog entries like this proves that we are really involved. Many are finding more ways to solicit help for the victims of the recent typhoon.
The Philippines is still in need of more donations for the victims of the 2 recent typhoons which hit the country the past 2 weekends.
An American Entrepreneur already offered help by giving away $50 each to chosen people in the Philippines who are personally extending help to their own relatives, family members, friends, neighbors, and even strangers who are greatly affected by the strong storms. He even created a site that gave way for soliciting help around the globe. He has started the movement. Let us offer help in any way we can.
No amount is too little when it comes from the heart.
Please visit:
http://nanoaid.org/papertiger/ for information on how you can help.
Thank you, PaperTiger, for sharing a common drive to help people who are need. We hope, in our little way, our site was able to provide useful information to kind-hearted individuals who are seeking ways to give assistance to the calamity victims. Dear Readers, please heed the call for more donations to our fellow citizens who are still in need. According to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), evacuation areas have received enough noodles as donations, so please donate items that are not commonly received but are also badly needed by the displaced families such as: footwear, cleaning materials, personal hygiene products, kitchen and cooking utensils, underwear and sanitary napkins. Thanks in advance for your generosity.
Dear Readers,
Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that just because it’s try where you are at the moment, this issue is over. While the president may have had political reasons for declaring the entire country in a state of calamity, the fact remains that she had to have some facts (no matter how thin) on which to base the announcement of her decision.
People are STILL dying! Millions are without homes or any of the possessions which the acquired over their lives. This problem is far from over.
Further documentation on this is available here:
http://www.PhilippinesTyphoon.org