Ondoy Typhoon

Last Saturday, September 26, my beloved country, The Philippines, was ravaged by typhoon Ondoy (international name: Kestana). The typhoon brought a month's worth of rainfall in just about 6 hours causing floods reaching to 15 feet high to the country's capital, Metro Manila and its nearby provinces. There are no words that can describe what happened. I hope these pictures will give you an idea.

I wanted to post videos but there are too many to post. So I suggest to check it on youtube instead. Anyway, as of this writing, there are still areas in knee to waist deep flood. Some areas still don't have clean water to drink, no electricity and no relief goods. Due to the volume of the victims, evacuation centers are running out of supplies.

I usually post funny email, sometimes absurd. But this time I hope I was able to reach out and touch your kind heart. We need all the help we can get.

Below is a link that is beign updated and consolidated by volunteers through google. The link contains all the bank account information for donations, links to paypal or online donations. Also the link provides resource of other dropoff points for donations in kind.

http://www.google.com/landing/typhoon-ondoy.html

For those residing in The Philippines, here's an additional information I gather from my facebook networks.

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   Amber Ultralounge - Water Bottle drive and Medical Relief
   
• Donate: Clean Bottle or container (e.g. 500 ml to 2 liters) or Bottled water and Medical Supplies (e.g. Paracetamol, Doxycycline - 100mg for lepospirosis, Cough medicines, First aid kit, etc.)
  
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  Amber will be open to accept your donation from 8am to 5pm tomorrow September 29, 2009.
  
  Kindly look for Arnie or Julie or call 8876838.
  
2. Marikina Bouncers Cooperative
   
• Donate: Blankets, Foods, Old Clothes.
• Donations can be brought to 95 Malaya St., Malanday Marikina City starting MONDAY (Sept.28) / 9am – 11pm Marikina Bouncers Multipurpose - Cooperative Office

I will update this links as soon as I have new information. But for now, I would to thank everybody who, in any way, helped us either through donations, volunteer works and especially prayers. Thank you very much.

Note: Photos and links were received via email by my ever-trusted, Agent M.