This is only re-posted from other site, I hope this will spread out…
Source: http://www.quezon.ph/2009/09/26/how-to-help/
The news is grim. People on their roofs, people losing their homes, loved ones separated, refugees everywhere, the most recent report is 5,000 people stuck in the Trinoma Mall in Quezon City. I have yet to confirm this but have heard this is the worst deluge since 1967; PAGASA reported that in three hours, as much rain as normally falls in two weeks soaked the Metropolis. Reports from the rest of Luzon -with most of Luzon’s provinces, including the National Capital Region placed under a State of Calamity by the President- are only now trickling in. Rescue and relief efforts over the years have gotten increasingly efficient, but this is one of those events that happen so suddenly, no one can possibly prepare for it.
Fellow bloggers may want to help on collating specific types of information they encounter online: appeals for rescue, traffic/flood updates, places to send relief goods, power failures, etc. This allows relief workers and media to focus on who needs help, while avoiding the risk that the ones who get rescued are those whose appeals are reTweeted most often, while others asking for help get overlooked, for example.
One person online is putting a Marikina map with updates: View Ondoy map for Marikina in a larger map. Contribute to, and spread the word on, Rescue Hub Info Central.
You will be a big help by collating information because relief/rescue workers and media can then periodically refer to your blogs to help evaluate what’s going on and what still needs to be done. Numbers are being collated here and in Sour Politics and Random Salt.
At a time like this, there is so much human compassion and so much frustration, too. So even if it’s by means of this small, online way, we can all pitch in.
See entries in Teacher Ria, in dvdtymo, etc.
Some photos/videos shared by people online:
(above: vicinity of Rustan’s, Katipunan Ave. Quezon City)
(above: underpass along Ayala Avenue, Makati City)
(above: Eastwood City, Quezon City)
Here’s what you can do even if you’re home
1. E-mail friends/relatives overseas to donate to their national Red Cross for Philippine flood victim relief.
2. If possible, contact the nearest chapter of the Philippine National Red Cross to find out how you can help wrap and prepare relief goods or contribute to information dissemination and other ways to keep people in touch.
3. Call your parish to find out plans when rains subside so you know where , how to help.
4. Pledge what would’ve been this weekend’s luxuries money for disaster relief.
Emergency/Rescue/Evacuation:
Red Cross: 143, 527-0000. Centers for relief: Red Cross chapters in Rizal, QC, Valenzuela, Bulacan. Phil. Nat’l. Red Cross Rizal Chapter operations center hotline: 635-0922, 634-7824. Send full address of stranded friends/family to Sen. Dick Gordon 09178997898/0938444BOYS
National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) Emergency Numbers: 912-5668, 911-1406, 912-2665, 911-5061. Help hotlines: 734-2118, 734-2120.
Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA): 136
Philippine Coast Guard: 527-6136
Bureau of Fire Protection Region III (Central Luzon) Hotline: (045) 9634376
San Juan City Hall Command Post: 468-1697
MERALCO hotlines: 0917-5592824, 0920-9292824
Contact NCRPO 838-3203, 838-3354 for rubber boat requests. You can also text 0917-422-6800 or 0927-675-1981 for rescue dump trucks. Appeal for those able, to lend 4×4 trucks for rescue: Pls. send truck to Greenhills Shoppng Center Unimart Grocery to await deployment, tel. 09209072902.
505 Rescue needs life-vests & rubber boats for their rescue operations. Please bring to Villamor Air Base.
Office of Sen Villar to rescue stranded people: 0917-4226800, 0917-2414864, 0927-6751981
Please go to GMA Facebook page & post addresses of people in need of immediate help.
For all Ateneo de Manila students who are stranded/ those who need help (as well as those who know of other students who need help), please TEXT your/their name/s, location and contact number to 0908-8877166. The MVP Building (HQ)is open to all those who have difficulty going home tonight.
Signed off
Graz
