MANILA, Philippines – Many Filipino villagers managed to save only the clothes on their backs but began to rebuild Sunday as the flood waters receded from a tropical storm that set off the worst flooding in the Philippine capital in 42 years and left about 80 dead.
Army troops, police and civilian volunteers plucked dead bodies from muddy flood waters and rescued drenched survivors from rooftops after Tropical Storm Ketsana tore through the northern Philippines a day earlier, leaving at least 106 people dead and missing.
Some residents began to clean up as the flood waters receded. Still, many parts of the capital remained flooded. A brief period of sunshine showed the extent of the devastation in many neighborhoods — destroyed houses, overturned vehicles, and roads covered in debris and mud. Read more.. (via yahoo news)
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Red Cross 1. CASH or CHECK Please send cash or check donations to the PNRC National Headquarters in Manila. Checks should be made payable to The Philippine National Red Cross. They can arrange for donation pick-up.
2. BANK DEPOSIT Account Name: The Phil. Nat’l. Red Cross
METROBANK Port Area Branch Peso Acct.: 151-3-041-63122-8 Dollar Acct.: 151-2-151-00218-2 Type of Acct. : SAVINGS Swift Code: MBTC PH MM
BANK OF THE PHIL. ISLANDS Port Area Branch Peso Acct.: 4991-0010-99 Type of Account: CURRENT
BANK OF THE PHIL. ISLANDS UN Branch Dollar Acct.: 8114-0030-94 Type of Account: SAVINGS Swift Code: BOPI PH MM
For your donations to be properly acknowledged, please fax the bank transaction slip at nos. +63.2.527.0575 or +63.2.404.0979 with your name, address and contact number.
Credit Card
Please fax the following info to +632.404.09.79 and +632.527.0575:
Name of card member, billing address, contact nos. (phone & mobile), credit card no., expiration date, CCV2/ CVC2 (last three digits at the back of the credit card), billing address, amount to be donated.
For online donations you may also visit our website at www.redcross.org.ph .
In-Kind Donations
LOCAL Please send in-kind local donations to The Philippine National Red Cross – National Headquarters in Manila. They could also arrange for donation pick-up.
INTERNATIONAL
1. Send a letter of intent to donate to the PNRC 2. A letter of acceptance from PNRC shall be sent back to the donor 3. Immediately after shipping the goods, please send the (a) original Deed of Donation, (b) copy of packing list and (c) original Airway Bill for air shipments or Bill of Lading for sea shipments to The Philippine National Red Cross–National Headquarters c/o Secretary General Corazon Alma de Leon, Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, Manila 2803, Philippines.
SMS and G-CASH
SMS text REDAMOUNT to 2899 (Globe) or 4483 (Smart)
G-CASH text DONATEAMOUNT4-digit M-PINREDCROSS to 2882
Most urgent needs
Food items: Rice, noodles, canned goods, sugar, iodized salt, cooking oil, monggo beans and potable water
Medicines: Paracetamol, antibiotics, analgesic, oral rehydration salts, multivitamins and medications to treat diarrheal diseases
Non-food items: Bath soaps, face towels, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, plastic mats, blankets, mosquito nets, jerry cans, water containers, water purification tablets, plastic sheetings, and Laundry soap
Erica Paredes Katipunan Avenue, QC 0917-4741930 donate bread, packed juice, sandwich filling or you can help her team distribute the goods
Junior Chamber International Manila Baypark Tent, Roxas Blvd. will accept goods starting Monday
Our Lady of Pentecost Parish 12 F. Dela Rosa corner C. Salvador Sts., Loyola Heights, Quezon City (+632-4342397, +632-9290665) will accept relief goods
Kapuso Foundation 2/F GMA Kapuso Center Samar St. cor. 11th Jamboree St. Diliman, Quezon City Call 9827777 loc. 9901/9904/9905. accepts relief goods and cash
Sagip Kapamilya ABS-CBN Warehouse 13 Examiner St will accept donation goods
Miriam Quiambao One Orchard Road Bldg, Eastwood City will accept donations starting Monday
Monique Villonco Whitespace 2314 Chino Roces Ave Ext will accept relief goods in behalf of NoyMar volunteers
Karen Ang 3 Kagandahan corner Kabutihan Streets, Kawilihan Village, Pasig 0920-9520900 will forward donated relief goods to Red Cross
Every Nation, FORT 32nd St cor University Pkwy across Market Market will accept donations for Red Cross esp. purified water, canned goods, and infant formula
CDRC 72-A Times St., West Triangle, QC. 9299820/22 will accept relief goods
Manor Superclub, Eastwood City will accept goods and other emergency items starting Sunday at 10 am
All Petron branches will accept relief goods
La Salle Greenhills Drop off goods at Gate 2
Ateneo Drop off goods at the MVP Lobby
Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan Task Force Noah Ateneo Cervini Dorm
Philippine Army Gym Fort Bonifacio accepts relief goods
Camp Aguinaldo CRS Office, Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City 0915-1162853 will accept food, medicines, and other relief items
Radio Veritas Veritas Tower West Ave. Corner EDSA 9257931-40 accepts relief goods
Hillsborough Village chapel in ALABANG Water, blankets, shoes, and clothes etc. are being accepted at the Hillsborough Village chapel for families whose houses were washed out in the nearby sitios.
LUCA store Rockwell, Eastwood, Shangri-la will accept relief goods
Myron’s Greenbelt will accept relief goods
Papemelroti Stores will accept relief goods (canned goods / milk / bottled water / clothes – NO CASH) 91 Roces Ave. / Ali Mall Cubao / SM City North EDSA / SM Fairview / SM Megamall / Glorietta 3 in Makati /… SM Centerpoint / SM Southmall
Aranaz Stores (for Payatas communities) Rockwell and Greenbelt will accept donations
MOONSHINE Powerplant Mall, Rockwell will accept relief goods
Balay Expo Center across Farmers Market Cubao (NoyMar Volunteers) will accept relief donations as well as volunteers
Office of Congressman Ruffy Biazon Ground Flr South Center Tower, Madrigal Business Park Alabang.
Team Manila Trinoma, Mall of Asia, Jupiter Bel-Air and Rockwell shall be accepting relief goods for distribution by Veritas
Luzon Relief Renaissance Fitness Center 2nd Floor, Bramante Building, Renaissance Towers Ortigas, Meralco Avenue, Pasig City Contact Person: Warren Habaluyas, (0929) 871 3488, luzonrelief@gmail.com Relief goods will be accepted
TXTPower.org will forward donations to Red Cross Paypal Smart Money – 5577-5144-1866-7103 G-Cash – 0917-9751092
Stanford's Pilipino American Student Union (PASU) is also collecting donations to be sent to the Philippines to help victims of Tropical Storm Ketsana. If you would like to make a donation or help in any way, please contact AV David at avhdavid@stanford.edu or (650) 491-4561.
Thank you for your support as we develop East Villagers to best meet your needs as passionate volunteers and nonprofits. We've undergone a lot of exciting news and updates. In this September issue, you'll find all the updates and news happening in the village. We hope you'll sign online, earn more points, and get ready to donate them to your favorite nonprofit organizations the week of November 19th. Top 15 organizations will be announced on Thanksgiving (Nov. 26th).
Connecting thru Service,
EV Team
- East Villagers Community News -
1. Root International Peace Corps and Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation exceeded fundraising goal of $100,000 in support of Taiwan Typhoon Morakot Relief efforts and sets new goal of $150,000. We encourage individuals, communities, and associations to donate and support Typhoon Relief to help us meet our new goal of raising $150,000 by September 28, 2009 deadline. Read more...
2. Root International Peace Corps receives a total of $250,000 donation from Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation and HP employees in support of Taiwan Typhoon Morakot Relief Efforts. Read more...
3. Birdie for ALL, Grace Chen, 8-year-old junior world championship golfer, fundraised $3000 for Leukemia research. Matching funds of $1500 by Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation. Read more...
4. Asian Liver Center at Stanford University's 1st Annual TeamHBV Collegiate Conference, sponsored by the Chao Foundation, will be on November 13-15, 2009. Conference is open to the public by invitation only. Watch the conference live streamed on East Villagers. EV/TeamHBV will be hosting many fun contests with lots of prizes. Please email groopman@stanford.edu to register. Read more...
5. Project Little Red Scarf performed successful surgeries for 86 children with congenital heart disease. Surgery cost per child is around $4000 or more. $30 USD can provide needed nutrition for one child for a month following heart surgery. Read more...
- East Villagers Beta v.3.0 Updates -
1. New EV Store with many neat items you can purchase with your points. Be the first 25 to get the EV Tshirt for 1/2 off. (1500 pts) If your nonprofit has an item you'd like to sell, EV can add it to the store for 0% transaction fee. All proceeds will support your organization.
2. Twitter is now fully integrated with East Villagers. EastVillagers is now added to every tweet made from East Villagers. You can connect your NGO's twitter and update your twitter right from your organization page. You can also connect your twitter to your personal profile and update your twitter from EV, which will update your EV status.
3. New Video Tool which allows video from all providers (Youtube, Vimeo, Youku, Tudou, etc...), and it also allows you to directly upload your video onto EV.
4. Brand new Linking Interface for all linking on EV (Blogs, Projects, Organizations, and Opportunities). Easy to add button to link your NGO website to NGO EV page.
5. EV Forum to facilitate discussion among EV members about projects, ideas, issues, questions/feedback. Check it out!
6. EV Ticketing and Registration - If you have an event, let EV take care of your ticketing for free.
ROOT INTERNATIONAL PEACE CORPS RECEIVES A TOTAL OF NT$10 MILLION DONATION FROM HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY FOUNDATION AND HP EMPLOYEES IN SUPPORT OF TAIWAN TYPHOON MORAKOT RELIEF EFFORTS TAIPEI, Taiwan – September 3, 2009 –
Root International Peace Corps (RIPC 美國路竹會), a US-based, non-profit disaster relief organization, is pleased to announce that it has received a NT$10 million donation from the Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation and the employees of Hewlett-Packard Company in support of ongoing relief efforts related to Taiwan Typhoon Morakot.
RIPC will use the donated funds through joint relief efforts to provide medical aid and supplies in partnership with its sister organization Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps (TRMPC 臺灣路竹會), a 15-year old Taiwan-based non-profit that is widely considered the A-team in medical and disaster relief. Over the years, the TRMPC has mobilized over 6,000 volunteers and is known for being the first onsite in over 25 countries across 200 missions that have so far touched over 100,000 lives.
“We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation and the employees of Hewlett-Packard Company for providing us with such a generous grant to address the enormous challenge of providing medical care and equipment to those affected by Typhoon Morakot,” said RIPC and TRMPC President Dr. Chi-Chun Liu. “Their commitment to our typhoon relief efforts is truly an exemplary model of businesses caring for communities in crisis, and their contributions provide a huge boost in both resources and morale that will allow us to extend our relief efforts to many more lives and their critical needs.”
For those wishing to learn more about this important cause, donation information and timely updates about the relief mission can be found at RIPC’s online non-profit community and fundraising host www.eastvillagers.org, or at the TRMPC website www.taiwanroot.org.
About TRMPC and RIPC
Founded in 1995 through the vision of Dr. Chi-Chun Liu, Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps. (TRMPC 臺灣路竹會) believes that medical service should transcend national borders and exceed the limitations of politics, race, and religion. It holds as its end goal a united international community working in cooperation to bring about equitable access of healthcare to all populations. Since then, TRMPC has extended its services to include disaster relief, humanitarian aid, public health education and development. In 2007, Root International Peace Corps. (RIPC 美國路竹會) was founded in the US as a sister organization of TRMPC to provide services in response to increasing needs across the globe. Over the years, TRMPC has mobilized over 6000 volunteers. Its 197 missions so far have touched over 100,000 lives from high mountains of Taiwan to 25 countries across Africa, South and Central Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and South Pacific. More information about RIPC and TRMPC is available at www.ripcusa.org and http://www.taiwanroot.org.
For More Information Please Contact:
U.S. Ping Chao RIPC 408-316-3551 admin@eastvillagers.org
Taiwan Dr. Chi-Chun Liu RIPC and TRMPC 886-2-86676700 tradm@taiwanroot.org
ROOT INTERNATIONAL PEACE CORPS AND CHAO FAMILY FOUNDATION EXCEEDED FUNDRAISING GOAL OF $100,000 IN SUPPORT OF TAIWAN TYPHOON MORAKOT RELIEF EFFORTS AND SETS NEW GOAL OF $150,000 To continue the relief efforts, we encourage individuals, communities, and associations to donate and support Typhoon Relief to help us meet our new goal of raising $150,000. PALO ALTO, California – September 3, 2009
Root International Peace Corps (RIPC 美國路竹會), a US-based, non-profit disaster relief organization, and the Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation (趙修平夫婦基金會) are pleased to announce that they have collaboratively fundraised over $100,000 in donations from the community all across North America and individuals in support of ongoing relief efforts related to Taiwan Typhoon Morakot. Due to overwhelming need overseas, we have decided to raise the new target to $150,000. Chao Foundation pledges to match funds to meet the new goal of $150,000. We encourage individuals, communities, and associations from all across the world to unite in helping Typhoon Morakot victims and restoration.
Chinese and Asian communities across North America had responded to this crisis with overwhelming support. A successful August 23 fundraising event co-hosted by World Journal and San Francisco Chinese Business Association raised $40,000 plus $40,000 matching fund from Chao Foundation. Chao Foundation’s dollar-for-a-dollar matching program also helped raise over $21,000 so far on the internet non-profit online community www.eastvillagers.org.
RIPC and Chao Foundation will use the donated funds through joint relief efforts to provide medical aid and supplies in partnership with its sister organization Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps (TRMPC 臺灣路竹會), a 15-year old Taiwan-based non-profit that is widely considered the A-team in medical and disaster relief. Over the years, the TRMPC has mobilized over 6,000 volunteers and is known for being the first onsite in over 25 countries across 200 missions that have so far touched over 100,000 lives.
“We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to North American Chinese and Asian communities and individuals for your generous donations and support to address the enormous challenge of providing medical care and equipment to those affected by Typhoon Morakot,” said RIPC and TRMPC President Dr. Chi-Chun Liu.
“Chao Foundation feels privileged to partner with so many individual donors in support of Typhoon relief efforts. Regardless if it’s ten dollars or thousands of dollars, Dr. Liu and I will make sure that every dollar donated through TRMPC/RIPC will be put to best use for Typhoon relief,” said Ping Chao, chairman and founder of Chao Foundation. “Our online fundraising and matching program raised over $21,000 within merely two weeks. More importantly, with the help of non-profit online community www.eastvillagers.org, we literally brought together a diverse group of people from all across U.S. and Canada, young and not-so-young, Chinese speaking and non as one community behind this important cause. That’s just incredible.”
For those wishing to learn more about this important cause, donation information and timely updates about the relief mission can be found at the Chao Foundation and RIPC’s online non-profit community and fundraising host www.eastvillagers.org. Here is the Chao Foundation website www.chaofoundation.org and RIPC website www.ripcusa.org.
About RIPC and RIPC
In 2007, Root International Peace Corps (RIPC 美國路竹會) was founded in the US as a sister organization of Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps (TRMPC 臺灣路竹會) to provide services in response to increasing needs across the globe. Over the years, TRMPC has mobilized over 6000 volunteers. Its 197 missions so far have touched over 100,000 lives from high mountains of Taiwan to 25 countries across Africa, South and Central Asia, South America, Eastern Europe and South Pacific. Founded in 1995 through the vision of Dr. Chi-Chun Liu, TRMPC believes that medical service should transcend national borders and exceed the limitations of politics, race, and religion. It holds as its end goal a united international community working in cooperation to bring about equitable access of healthcare to all populations. Since then, TRMPC has extended its services to include disaster relief, humanitarian aid, public health education and development. More information about RIPC and TRMPC is available at www.ripcusa.org and www.taiwanroot.org.
About Chao Foundation
The Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation (趙修平夫婦基金會) was founded in California’s Silicon Valley in 2005 by Ping Chao and his wife Amy Chao. It was established exclusively for charitable purposes. The foundation aims to fund and nurture initiatives improving the health and well-being of children and youth in economically disadvantaged regions throughout the world; promoting the spirit of philanthropy and developing awareness of non-profit practices and opportunities for service for the younger generation of China and the greater Chinese Diaspora. More information about the Chao Foundation is available at www.chaofoundation.org.
For More Information Please Contact:
U.S. Ping Chao Chao Foundation and Root International Peace Corps 408-316-3551 admin@eastvillagers.org
Taiwan Dr. Chi-Chun Liu Taiwan Root Medical Peace Corps 886-2-86676700 tradm@taiwanroot.org
RIPC and Chao Foundation wants to thank all donors (corporations, individuals, organizations) for your generous donations and support of the Typhoon Morakot Relief. Our original fundraising goal was $20,000, and in less than a month, we have exceeded that goal.
Due to overwhelming need overseas to provide relief for typhoon victims and restoration projects, we have decided to raise the new target to $50,000. Chao Foundation pledges to match funds to meet the new goal of $50,000.
We encourage individuals, communities, and associations from all across the world to unite in helping Typhoon Morakot victims and restoration. Please check www.eastvillagers.org for timely updates.
