Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC) and Jollibee Group Foundation (JGF) are doing relief efforts for families and communities affected by supertyphoon “Yolanda” through the JFC Food Aid.
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.
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.
I was happily nibbling on preserved roselle (hibiscus), a gift from my friend Imelda Tan, who was also telling me interesting stories.
WITNESSES said Valerie Trierweiler’s escorts from the Philippine Navy panicked when she suddenly left her hotel in Busuanga, Palawan, to...
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 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.
Peninsula Hotels has launched “Hope for the Philippines,” an initiative by Peninsula hotels across Asia and the US to help the victims of supertyphoon “Haiyan-Yolanda” in the Philippines.
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.
Still reeling from the massive earthquake that leveled their historic churches, such as the picturesque Dauis Church, Boholanos braced themselves...
