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The Filipino people’s resilience was put to the test yet again. Supertyphoon “Yolanda,” the strongest typhoon in history, had a total of six landfalls in the geographic midsection of the Philippines, leaving devastation in its wake.
If you’re a doctor... Yolanda Medical Relief is a Facebook page run by medical groups based in Manila and the United States. They are looking for kind souls to donate medicine and other medical supplies (a comprehensive list is available on their page).
The worst is over, but the aftermath lingers. Stories of 20-meter-deep water, strong winds and incredible survival flooded the media, as more and more casualties were tallied. Property, land and livelihood were lost, but this was nothing compared to the 10,000 missing, and hundreds of thousands of homeless evacuees.
As Vergel puts it, ‘The poor are blameless. It’s us the non-poor who are guilty–guilty to the degree that we...
The members of Saint Pedro Poveda College’s high school business club EntrePinoy had great plans for their school fair. Inspired by singer-songwriter Lana del Rey and her love for flower crowns, the girls, all junior and senior high school students, planned to make crowns by hand and sell them at the Poveda fair. “We buy the materials and make them with love,” they shared in an e-mail to Super.
WITNESSES said Valerie Trierweiler’s escorts from the Philippine Navy panicked when she suddenly left her hotel in Busuanga, Palawan, to...
“My small contribution to the Pinoys in need …” It was a short message that answered our problem of transporting the donations collected for “Yolanda” victims. Uncle Darry, a Singaporean, offered his car service for free when he learned that we were doing a donation drive.
For a while, things were confusing. (Who’s in charge? Are operations moving to Camp Aguinaldo? Are our volunteer tickets still valid? How do we donate food?) But one thing remained steadfast at Operation Salubong in Villamor Air Base: the dedicated volunteers who just want to make the evacuees feel welcome and comfortable when they land in Manila.
PALO, Leyte—More than a year has passed since the plight brought by Typhoon Yolanda. Emergency responses and progressive development groups...
The Filipino spirit was recently shaken by the catastrophe and devastation brought by “Yolanda”—also known by its international name, “Haiyan”—a supertyphoon that was considered one of the strongest in history.
