Canada's Filipino Community along with other Canadians welcome our DART team home with love and thanks
Bravo to members of Toronto's Filipino community who bussed to Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton to thank troops returning from Philippines! DART team, thanks for your life-saving work abroad.
AND FROM THE PHILIPPINES-
Philippines thx Canadian Troops
Local citizens wrote ''Thank You Canada'' on the roof of their house to thank the Canadian Armed Forces for their contribution in the Philippines during Operation RENAISSANCE in Roxas City, Philippines on December 12, 2013.
Photo: MCpl Marc-Andre Gaudreault, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
Des résidents locaux ont écrit « Thank you Canada » sur le toit de leur maison, pour remercier les Forces armées canadiennes du soutien qu’elles ont apporté aux Philippines, le 12 décembre 2013, à Roxas (Philippines), dans le cadre de l’opération Renaissance.
Photo : Cplc Marc-Andre Gaudreault, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
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God bless our beloved Philippines- Canada can still donate til Dec 23rd incl...Canadians have donated $20,000,000 so far-
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December 13, 2013- Justin Bieber and UNICEF in the Philippines- look at their faces....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnCGnUEwVb0
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Master Corporal Rick Stanutz (right) and Corporal Joel Majaralie (left) from 2 Combat Engineer Regiment, Petawawa, distribute Izzy dolls to local children during Operation RENAISSANCE in Mambusao, Philippines on December 5, 2013.
Photo: MCpl Marc-Andre Gaudreault, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
Le caporal-chef Rick Stanutz (à droite) et le caporal Joel Majaralie (à gauche), tous deux du 2e Régiment du génie de combat à Petawawa, distribuent des poupées Izzy à des enfants de Mambusao (Philippines), le 5 décembre 2013, dans le cadre de l’opération Renaissance.
Canada- Support to the Philippines DART 2013
CANADA MILITARY- Philippines mission leaving a lasting mark
19 hours ago- DECEMBER 9 2013
Two Nova Scotians on the ground in the Philippines say the experience of helping typhoon survivors is changing them perhaps as much as they are trying to make a difference for the Filipinos.
On Nov. 8, typhoon Haiyan swept through the Philippines, devastating the central islands with sustained winds of 235 km/h, gusts up to 275 km/h and a storm surge of six metres. More than 5,000 people were killed and four million made homeless by the superstorm.
Bombardier Derek Haines, a native of Port Bickerton, Guysborough County, arrived in the country seven days later.
“It was a real eye-opener,” said the 28-year-old.
“It really gives you perspective of what is important, like food, water and shelter. Those three things alone people take for granted and you don’t realize how important it is until something like this happens.”
Haines is part of Canada’s Disaster Assistance Response Team, known as DART, stationed in Roxas City on Panay Island.
Military medic and Halifax native Danica Pineiro, 26, arrived in the Philippines on Nov. 18.
Both Haines and Pineiro say they are impressed and inspired by the resilience of the Filipinos.
They spoke to The Chronicle Herald earlier last week by phone from Roxas City.
“Hearing every day how people have lost their homes, it’s very hard,” Pineiro said. “And, there are people who are elderly, who are out working in the rice fields and people who are out rebuilding their homes because they’ve been washed out.”
Most days, Pineiro has been travelling to rural and remote areas, either by road or by helicopter, as part of a 10-member medical team.
They’ve been setting up in schools and even on front porches, treating young and old.
“We usually see about 100 to 110 patients every day.”
And they have treated everything from skin conditions, to cut feet and chronic sickness. For many of her patients, this is the first medical treatment they’ve received since the storm hit.
“A lot of these villages are pretty isolated. The nearest hospital could be anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half (away).”
Many of the hospitals have been struggling without power since the storm and are just now starting to come back online, she said.
Despite the hard work, Pineiro says the experience so far has been “wonderful.”
“They are a lot less fortunate than we are, and being able to provide them with medical care can really make a difference,” she said.
“It’s what I always wanted to do. So I’m glad that I’ve been finally able to fulfil that.”
This is Haines’ first international mission.
“I’ve been trained for years to do something like this, but you never really appreciate the training until you actually are involved, and everything that you are trained to do just becomes second nature when it comes time to actually do the job,” he said.
For the most part, Haines has been working in the camp’s command centre, helping prioritize incoming tasks and organizing the work teams each day.
But for his first two days in the country, Haines served on a work team that had to set up a large tent for the World Food Program.
“There were a lot of the locals who were really involved in helping us. … They wanted to be just as involved as we were.
“Even the kids wanted to help. The older kids were doing crowd control … helping keep the younger kids back while we were putting up heavy beams.”
Both Pineiro and Haines have been struck by the gratitude that has been expressed to them from the people they are helping.
“I’ve been approached and thanked individually by people and they say that they are happy to have us in the Philippines and thanking us so much for our help,” Pineiro said.
“It’s a beautiful countryside and wonderful people here. … I’m just glad that we can be here and help and support them.”
Haines believes the lessons he’s learning from the Filipinos will stay with him always.
“I’m starting to look at things a lot differently now. … I’m really evaluating my needs over wants. I think, as all Canadians, we really need to evaluate what is really important.”
http://m.thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1172634-philippines-mission-leaving-a-lasting-mark
Yolanda/Haiyan
Bravo to members of Toronto's Filipino community who bussed to Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Trenton to thank troops returning from Philippines! DART team, thanks for your life-saving work abroad.
AND FROM THE PHILIPPINES-
Philippines thx Canadian Troops
Local citizens wrote ''Thank You Canada'' on the roof of their house to thank the Canadian Armed Forces for their contribution in the Philippines during Operation RENAISSANCE in Roxas City, Philippines on December 12, 2013.
Photo: MCpl Marc-Andre Gaudreault, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
Des résidents locaux ont écrit « Thank you Canada » sur le toit de leur maison, pour remercier les Forces armées canadiennes du soutien qu’elles ont apporté aux Philippines, le 12 décembre 2013, à Roxas (Philippines), dans le cadre de l’opération Renaissance.
Photo : Cplc Marc-Andre Gaudreault, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
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God bless our beloved Philippines- Canada can still donate til Dec 23rd incl...Canadians have donated $20,000,000 so far-
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December 13, 2013- Justin Bieber and UNICEF in the Philippines- look at their faces....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnCGnUEwVb0
Published on Dec 9, 2013
International singer, Justin Bieber arrived in Philippines for 'Give Back Philippines' campaign to help Typhoon Yolanda Victims.
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Canada reaches out to PH in a time of crisis
By Neil Reeder
Canadians were deeply saddened by the scale of the devastation and the level of human suffering seen in the Visayas in the aftermath of Supertyphoon “Yolanda,” and Canada has been at the forefront of international efforts to assist the Philippines.
Our humanitarian response was rapid and significant, and we are committed to working with the Philippines through the recovery and reconstruction phase ahead.
In the immediate days after the disaster, working in consultation with Philippine government and civil society representatives, Canada provided $35 million in humanitarian assistance for food, shelter, safe water, educational assistance and counseling to disaster victims.
The Canadian government quickly set up a matching fund where it committed to match, dollar for dollar, the charitable contributions of Canadians to the relief effort. Thus far, Canadians have donated over $20 million to registered charities involved in the humanitarian effort. This tremendous outpouring of support, including from the Filipino-Canadian community which numbers nearly 800,000, reflects the generosity of Canadians and our desire to reach out to Filipinos at a time of deep national distress.
Canada funded the deployment of a Canadian Red Cross field hospital to Ormoc, which is assisting local hospitals that suffered damage during the typhoon by providing basic health and surgical care, as well as maternal and child care. A number of new babies were born in Leyte since Yolanda made landfall, thanks to Canadian doctors! At the same time, the nonprofit Canadian Medical Assistance Team is on the ground in Ormoc, providing badly-needed out-patient medical services to those who have been affected by this disaster.
Canada quickly deployed humanitarian reserves from our government’s emergency stockpile, sending 16,000 blankets, 3,000 tents, 1.3 million water purification tablets, and 5,000 temporary shelters to the Philippines. This will assist 5,000 families for a period of three months. Canada is also the fifth largest country donor to the Central Emergency Relief Fund of the United Nations, which allocated $25 million to relief efforts in the Philippines.
Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police took part in an Interpol mission last week to assess the needs of the Philippine authorities for disaster victim identification services. A Canadian government epidemiologist was deployed to Manila as part of the Global Outbreak Alert Response Network, in order to assist the World Health organization response team in the Philippines.
As the Philippines is also an important source country for immigrants to Canada, special measures have been put in place to prioritize the processing of permanent and temporary residence applications from regions affected by Yolanda.
This past week, our minister of international development, Christian Paradis, made an official visit to the Philippines to assess first hand the situation on the ground. He met with municipal officials, and visited Canadian Forces operations in Capiz and Iloilo provinces, and met with Canadian and international NGO partners working on the ground in Tacloban. He also toured the Canadian emergency medical facilities in Ormoc. At the conclusion of his visit, Minister Paradis reviewed the situation with the Philippines’ Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, who spoke very highly of Canada’s contribution.
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper told members of the Filipino-Canadian community in Toronto last Nov. 18, “Canada’s thoughts and prayers continue to be with those in the Philippines who have been devastated by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). We are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Filipino-Canadian families who have loved ones that have been affected by this tragic natural disaster.” The Prime Minister said Canada’s government “has taken decisive action to address the ravages of the typhoon by working closely with the Filipino-Canadian community, relief agencies and the (Philippine government) to provide ongoing support to those who need it most.”
Neil Reeder is Canada’s new ambassador to the Philippines. He presented his credentials to President Aquino last week
Our humanitarian response was rapid and significant, and we are committed to working with the Philippines through the recovery and reconstruction phase ahead.
In the immediate days after the disaster, working in consultation with Philippine government and civil society representatives, Canada provided $35 million in humanitarian assistance for food, shelter, safe water, educational assistance and counseling to disaster victims.
The Canadian government quickly set up a matching fund where it committed to match, dollar for dollar, the charitable contributions of Canadians to the relief effort. Thus far, Canadians have donated over $20 million to registered charities involved in the humanitarian effort. This tremendous outpouring of support, including from the Filipino-Canadian community which numbers nearly 800,000, reflects the generosity of Canadians and our desire to reach out to Filipinos at a time of deep national distress.
Canada funded the deployment of a Canadian Red Cross field hospital to Ormoc, which is assisting local hospitals that suffered damage during the typhoon by providing basic health and surgical care, as well as maternal and child care. A number of new babies were born in Leyte since Yolanda made landfall, thanks to Canadian doctors! At the same time, the nonprofit Canadian Medical Assistance Team is on the ground in Ormoc, providing badly-needed out-patient medical services to those who have been affected by this disaster.
Canada quickly deployed humanitarian reserves from our government’s emergency stockpile, sending 16,000 blankets, 3,000 tents, 1.3 million water purification tablets, and 5,000 temporary shelters to the Philippines. This will assist 5,000 families for a period of three months. Canada is also the fifth largest country donor to the Central Emergency Relief Fund of the United Nations, which allocated $25 million to relief efforts in the Philippines.
On the island of Panay, over 300 members of the Disaster Assistance Response Team or DART (comprised of members of the Canadian Forces and personnel from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development), based in Roxas City, have cleared 113 kilometers of road, restored generators for hospitals and repaired municipal infrastructure damaged by Yolanda. Our Canadian Forces mobile medical teams are travelling by helicopter into isolated communities in Capiz, Iloilo, and Aklan provinces, and have treated more than 3,000 patients so far. Our DART water purification teams have distributed well over 20,000 liters of potable water, while DART helicopters have distributed almost 100 tons of food and relief supplies to remote island and mountain communities.
Canada has not only stepped up to contribute, but has attempted to do so in the most effective way possible, with many of the hard lessons we have learned from our involvement in similar relief efforts around the world greatly informing our efforts in the Philippines. United Nations Undersecretary Valerie Amos called the Canadian presence in Panay Island “a model of civilian-military cooperation.” Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police took part in an Interpol mission last week to assess the needs of the Philippine authorities for disaster victim identification services. A Canadian government epidemiologist was deployed to Manila as part of the Global Outbreak Alert Response Network, in order to assist the World Health organization response team in the Philippines.
As the Philippines is also an important source country for immigrants to Canada, special measures have been put in place to prioritize the processing of permanent and temporary residence applications from regions affected by Yolanda.
This past week, our minister of international development, Christian Paradis, made an official visit to the Philippines to assess first hand the situation on the ground. He met with municipal officials, and visited Canadian Forces operations in Capiz and Iloilo provinces, and met with Canadian and international NGO partners working on the ground in Tacloban. He also toured the Canadian emergency medical facilities in Ormoc. At the conclusion of his visit, Minister Paradis reviewed the situation with the Philippines’ Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, who spoke very highly of Canada’s contribution.
As Prime Minister Stephen Harper told members of the Filipino-Canadian community in Toronto last Nov. 18, “Canada’s thoughts and prayers continue to be with those in the Philippines who have been devastated by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). We are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Filipino-Canadian families who have loved ones that have been affected by this tragic natural disaster.” The Prime Minister said Canada’s government “has taken decisive action to address the ravages of the typhoon by working closely with the Filipino-Canadian community, relief agencies and the (Philippine government) to provide ongoing support to those who need it most.”
Neil Reeder is Canada’s new ambassador to the Philippines. He presented his credentials to President Aquino last week
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Master Corporal Rick Stanutz (right) and Corporal Joel Majaralie (left) from 2 Combat Engineer Regiment, Petawawa, distribute Izzy dolls to local children during Operation RENAISSANCE in Mambusao, Philippines on December 5, 2013.
Photo: MCpl Marc-Andre Gaudreault, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
Le caporal-chef Rick Stanutz (à droite) et le caporal Joel Majaralie (à gauche), tous deux du 2e Régiment du génie de combat à Petawawa, distribuent des poupées Izzy à des enfants de Mambusao (Philippines), le 5 décembre 2013, dans le cadre de l’opération Renaissance.
Canada- Support to the Philippines DART 2013
CANADA MILITARY- Philippines mission leaving a lasting mark
19 hours ago- DECEMBER 9 2013
Two Nova Scotians on the ground in the Philippines say the experience of helping typhoon survivors is changing them perhaps as much as they are trying to make a difference for the Filipinos.
On Nov. 8, typhoon Haiyan swept through the Philippines, devastating the central islands with sustained winds of 235 km/h, gusts up to 275 km/h and a storm surge of six metres. More than 5,000 people were killed and four million made homeless by the superstorm.
Bombardier Derek Haines, a native of Port Bickerton, Guysborough County, arrived in the country seven days later.
“It was a real eye-opener,” said the 28-year-old.
“It really gives you perspective of what is important, like food, water and shelter. Those three things alone people take for granted and you don’t realize how important it is until something like this happens.”
Haines is part of Canada’s Disaster Assistance Response Team, known as DART, stationed in Roxas City on Panay Island.
Military medic and Halifax native Danica Pineiro, 26, arrived in the Philippines on Nov. 18.
Both Haines and Pineiro say they are impressed and inspired by the resilience of the Filipinos.
They spoke to The Chronicle Herald earlier last week by phone from Roxas City.
“Hearing every day how people have lost their homes, it’s very hard,” Pineiro said. “And, there are people who are elderly, who are out working in the rice fields and people who are out rebuilding their homes because they’ve been washed out.”
Most days, Pineiro has been travelling to rural and remote areas, either by road or by helicopter, as part of a 10-member medical team.
They’ve been setting up in schools and even on front porches, treating young and old.
“We usually see about 100 to 110 patients every day.”
And they have treated everything from skin conditions, to cut feet and chronic sickness. For many of her patients, this is the first medical treatment they’ve received since the storm hit.
“A lot of these villages are pretty isolated. The nearest hospital could be anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half (away).”
Many of the hospitals have been struggling without power since the storm and are just now starting to come back online, she said.
Despite the hard work, Pineiro says the experience so far has been “wonderful.”
“They are a lot less fortunate than we are, and being able to provide them with medical care can really make a difference,” she said.
“It’s what I always wanted to do. So I’m glad that I’ve been finally able to fulfil that.”
This is Haines’ first international mission.
“I’ve been trained for years to do something like this, but you never really appreciate the training until you actually are involved, and everything that you are trained to do just becomes second nature when it comes time to actually do the job,” he said.
For the most part, Haines has been working in the camp’s command centre, helping prioritize incoming tasks and organizing the work teams each day.
But for his first two days in the country, Haines served on a work team that had to set up a large tent for the World Food Program.
“There were a lot of the locals who were really involved in helping us. … They wanted to be just as involved as we were.
“Even the kids wanted to help. The older kids were doing crowd control … helping keep the younger kids back while we were putting up heavy beams.”
Both Pineiro and Haines have been struck by the gratitude that has been expressed to them from the people they are helping.
“I’ve been approached and thanked individually by people and they say that they are happy to have us in the Philippines and thanking us so much for our help,” Pineiro said.
“It’s a beautiful countryside and wonderful people here. … I’m just glad that we can be here and help and support them.”
Haines believes the lessons he’s learning from the Filipinos will stay with him always.
“I’m starting to look at things a lot differently now. … I’m really evaluating my needs over wants. I think, as all Canadians, we really need to evaluate what is really important.”
http://m.thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1172634-philippines-mission-leaving-a-lasting-mark
Yolanda/Haiyan
Filipino-Canadians come home to help
COMING HOME TO THIER COUNTRY IN NEED. Major Jay Manimtim (extreme right) and some of the other Filipino-Canadian officers of the Canadian Forces Disaster Assistance Response Team.CAPIZ, Philippines – It was a call Jay Manimtim did not think twice about taking.
He had seen the heart-wrenching images of the devastation brought by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) from his home in Canada and knew he had to help.
Shortly after, the healthcare administrator with the rank of major for the Canadian Forces received a call from his headquarters asking him to go on mission to the Philippines as part of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART).
Manimtim was in the middle of the allocated 8-month parental leave, taking turns with his wife to take care of their one-year old son Jacob, but there was no question as to what his answer would be.
“I didn’t even have to think about it. I immediately said yes,” said Manimtim, cutting short his parental leave.
Manimtim was born and raised in Rosario, Cavite and migrated to Canada when he was 16 years old.
His last visit to the Philippines was in 2009, and he remembers how different it was from when he first left. He remembers how he felt hopeful about the country’s progress. It was a memory that saddened him when he saw the images of what Yolanda destroyed.
“I felt really compelled to help, being born and raised here in the Philippines. I felt a deep connection,” said Manimtim.
Manimtim is one of the Filipino-Canadians on the DART who are on mission to the Philippines as liaison officers (LOs). As LOs, they will be assigned to live within a certain community and work closely with civilian local authorities to better understand the needs of the remote communities in terms of humanitarian aid.
“It’s our job (as liaison officers) to liaise with local leaders, NGOs, and international organizations to relieve the affected population.” It is being a Filipino-Canadian that puts Manimtim and other members of the LO in the best place to do this.
“I know what it likes to be Filipino. This is my culture, this is my heritage. I know how Filipinos think. I know the intricacies of the language, the intricacies of how Filipinos think. It is my pleasure to be here [to help],” he said.
There were a total of 23 countries that came to the aid of the Philippines and provided relief and or civil military assets for emergency relief operations in light of Typhoon Yolanda. According to the Civil Military coordination hub in Tacloban, this is the largest humanitarian response sent to a single country.
– Rappler.com
The Long Road to Tacloban
Rappler has set up a base in Tacloban to gather stories in Leyte and Eastern Samar, especially in the towns and villages that sufficient aid and most media have yet to reach.
On November 14, they set out for Tacloban – by land – from our headquarters in Pasig City. The 36-hour trip took them through the provinces most heavily devastated by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). Here, they shared with us what they saw along the way, capturing images of destruction and despair, narrating stories of anguish, hope, and heroism.
Their journey continues. They are finding people. The stories keep coming. Their and these people's voices are here.
Follow their story here
Help the victims of Typhoon Yolanda (international codename: Haiyan). Visit Rappler's list of ongoing relief operations in your area. Tell us about your relief and recovery initiatives, email move.ph@rappler.com or tweet us @moveph
Visit rappler.com/typhoon-yolanda for the latest updates on Typhoon Yolanda.
Want to help? Read these:
Rappler has set up a base in Tacloban to gather stories in Leyte and Eastern Samar, especially in the towns and villages that sufficient aid and most media have yet to reach.
On November 14, they set out for Tacloban – by land – from our headquarters in Pasig City. The 36-hour trip took them through the provinces most heavily devastated by Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). Here, they shared with us what they saw along the way, capturing images of destruction and despair, narrating stories of anguish, hope, and heroism.
Their journey continues. They are finding people. The stories keep coming. Their and these people's voices are here.
Follow their story here
Help the victims of Typhoon Yolanda (international codename: Haiyan). Visit Rappler's list of ongoing relief operations in your area. Tell us about your relief and recovery initiatives, email move.ph@rappler.com or tweet us @moveph
Visit rappler.com/typhoon-yolanda for the latest updates on Typhoon Yolanda.
Want to help? Read these:
- #ReliefPH: Victims of Typhoon Yolanda need your help
- #YolandaPH (Haiyan): Filipinos worldwide heed call to action
- Why Paypal may lock Haiyan relief accounts
- Yolanda (Typhoon Haiyan): Aid, donations for international community
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CANADA EXTENDS Philippine relief donation period extended to Dec. 23
The Canadian PressBy The Canadian Press | The Canadian Press – 6 hours ago.
PRAISE GOD- CANADA GOV. EXTENDED PHILIPPINE RELIEF DONATIONS TIME- 2 DEC 23 (AND GOV. WILL DOUBLE)- banks churches will also help us elderly with our donations-- let's git r done.... 4 our beloved brothers and sisters.... following is all the global efforts from around the world- WE. ARE . THE.. WORLD... WE ARE THE CHILDREN...... God bless our brothers and sisters of Philippines ... from Nova Scotia
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December 5 2013
Our beloved Filipino brothers and sisters- we love u-from our Canada -Dec 5th 2013- God bless our troops of Canada- u honour us always and ur devotion 2 humanity's weakest and most in need reflects our Canadian Flag proudly ... always
Air force sergeant delivers disaster relief for Christmas
December 4, 2013 - 3:40pm By Dan Arsenault Staff Reporter
Sgt. Tom Baker is shown in the Philippines with the Canadian Disaster Assistance Response Team. (Cpl. Ariane Montambeault)
He’s halfway around the world doing work he did not intend to do, but Sgt. Tom Baker feels blessed to be in the Philippines.
The 46-year-old father of four recently left 14 Wing Greenwood and is currently posted with 8 Wing in Trenton, Ont., where he is an air traffic controller.
Shortly after Nov. 8, when typhoon Haiyan killed thousands in the Southeast Asian country, Baker was told his special unit could be headed there.
He is part of 8 Air Communication and Control Squadron, which is a deployable air traffic control and communications unit. They have the ability to set up runway lights, air control towers, radar and can essentially create airports where they are needed within 72 hours.
In the days after the storm, plans were being made to send Canada’s Disaster Assistance Response Team, known as DART, to the Philippines. However, there were a lot of questions about the condition of the airport at their destination, Roxas City, on the north coast of Panay Island.
Officials decided to send Baker and another squadron member to the Philippines so they could decide if the entire unit was needed. Baker and his partner flew with the DART team, and kept busy on the flight over.
“We really didn’t find out where we were going until just the night before we left,” he said in a recent telephone interview from the Philippines.
They found a few online air traffic control publications about the airport and looked at Google Earth, hoping to make some plans. On arrival, they found a badly damaged tower, but equipment that was still working. The equipment was moved to a firehall on the airport property and it was soon determined that the rest of Baker’s unit could stay in Canada.
Although the local air traffic workers were handling at least 30 times as many flights, Baker and his partner had to find other work to do. They’ve spent a couple of weeks planning and prioritizing flights to maximize the use of Canadian aircraft that deliver medical staff, food and other necessities to needy areas.
“There’s a number of requests from humanitarian agencies that we’re here to support. (We) make sure that there’s no waste and we pretty much fit everything in that we can cram into a day. We’re being used quite a bit.”
In addition, he’s done some carpentry work and also got to fly aboard a helicopter during a recent relief outing.
“I got to go out on a mission, where we went to Kalibo, which is kind of in the northeast part of the island. We were picking up food stores and bringing them to remote locations far inland and dropping them off to communities that really hadn’t seen any relief to that point.”
The flight’s were amazing, he said.
From high up, the island looked stunningly beautiful. A little lower down, the scene was one of shocking destruction. As they neared the ground they could see entire villages of smiling people, waving and clapping.
“I found that very overwhelming,” he said. “There’s so much we can learn from these people.”
Baker said he felt inspired by the people’s upbeat attitudes and warm smiles. He said their physical power impressed him, too.
“Some of these people aren’t very large in stature. We’re huffing 80- to 100-pound bags of rice off the helicopter … and they’d have 14- and 15-year-old boys putting one on their back and another person putting one on their neck and carrying them two at a time. It was quite amazing.”
Baker does not know when he’ll return to Canada.
“There’s not a person on this camp that wouldn’t work past Christmas if that’s what it took.”
He was driving with a local resident through Roxas City recently and was told the area is normally lit up with Christmas lights at this time of year.
“I found that very moving because the area has changed and there’s not going to be a Christmas here for these people. More than anything I want people back … in Canada to appreciate what they have, to have a festive holiday, but I want them to really think about what’s happening here, and if they have a chance to give to this humanitarian effort, to do so and remember the time of year.”
Baker feels very deeply about their humanitarian work and feels lucky because he can see how much it’s appreciated.
“When you walk through the city of Roxas, where we are, there is not a single person that I’ve talked to so far that hasn’t either lost their house or been affected in some way by this storm. Many take the time to stop and shake your hand and say, ‘Thank you, thank you for coming.’
“I really think we represent what Canada wants. Canada wants to help.
“To actually experience that first-hand is why I feel blessed.”
(darsenault@herald.ca)
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We Are The World for Philippines [TYPHOON HAIYAN] -Nov 13
Published on Nov 13, 2013
Share the story of kindness, generosity and humanity of all the nations who choose to help the Filipinos - Their deeds will forever written in the heart of the Filipinos.
For those who want to add their links or contact numbers in this video for donations, please leave a message at my facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/kevinayson
FOR DONATIONS:
Teespring just launched a t-shirt campaign on with the goal of
donating parts of the proceeds to our countrymen devastated by the typhoon.
Visit: http://www.teespring.com/yolly
DISCLAIMER:
This video is edited as a simple way to give thanks to all the nations who helped the Philippines
*THIS VIDEO WAS INITIALLY INTENDED FOR HAITI
*ALL VIDEOS AND IMAGES ARE COPYRIGHT TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS
The purpose of this video is to inform every single one of you about the typhoon victims in the Philippines. I am NOT getting any monetized views from Google Adsense or other Affiliates. Just to be clear, my goal is to help find ways to help other people in the Philippines! GOD BLESS!
Most of all, I am not paid in making this video!
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Action Against Hunger and Canadian Forces Deliver Food to 2,000 Isolated Children in Philippines
TORONTO, Nov. 29, 2013 (Menafn - Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) --First relief reaches Panay Island since typhoon
With help from the Canadian Armed Forces, humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger (Action contre la Faim / "ACF") delivered food to nearly 2,000 isolated children in the centre of Panay Island Thursday.
Through the use of the Canadian Armed Forces' helicopter, ACF delivered 5.8 tonnes of high-protein biscuits to six areas in the center of the island of Panay, where no NGO had been able to reach since the disaster.
Nearly 2,000 children under the age of five and more than 200 pregnant or lactating women received food through the cooperative effort between ACF, the Canadian armed forces and people of the local community.
Panay island resident Elisabeth Bardero walked for more than two hours with her six-month old daughter Aisa to attend the food distribution. "I thought that with a little luck, there would be something for us," said Bardero, whose house was completely destroyed. "We eat mostly rice, because we have nothing else. Two of my children are sick at the moment: they have the flu because of the conditions we live in."
Explained Nilfa Diclaro, Department of Agriculture, Burias: "Eighty per cent of the population is poor here. Almost everyone is a farmer and they have only the food they grow. Most crops have rotted; even if farmers replant now it will take eight months for bananas and cassava to grow. The nearest market is an eight kilometer walk and prices have increased significantly."
Said ACF logistician Charlotte Schneider, "These extremely isolated communities were struggling even before the typhoon hit. We could never have reached these desperate people without the use of the Canadian Armed Forces' helicopter."
"More long-term work is needed to support families until the next harvest and help farmers re-plant, added Schneider. "Meanwhile, distributions of NRG5 (a high-protein biscuit) are a good way to supplement the inadequate food supply."
Canadians wishing to make a donation to ACF can do so online at: http://actioncontrelafaim.ca/donate-to-the-philippines/. The Canadian government has extended the donation matching until December 23.For ongoing updates please visit our website:
www.actionagainsthunger.ca Follow us on Twitter: @acf_canada
About Action Against Hunger Founded in France in 1979, Action Against Hunger/ Action contre la Faim (ACF) is a leading international humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger, with a special focus on children under five. Our programs save lives and provide communities with long-term solutions to hunger and its underlying causes. We work in more than 45 countries and reach approximately 7 million people annually.
SOURCE Action Against Hunger (AAH)
Image with caption: "Action Against Hunger delivers food aid to 2,000 isolated children in Panay Island, Philippines, with help from Canadian Armed Forces (CNW Group/Action Against Hunger (AAH))". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20131129_C6235_PHOTO_EN_34111.jpg
Image with caption: "An Action Against Hunger nutrition expert measures children for malnutrition in disaster-struck Panay Island, Philippines on Thursday (CNW Group/Action Against Hunger (AAH))". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20131129_C6235_PHOTO_EN_34113.jpg
Image with caption: "Children wave goodbye to the Canadian Armed Forces helicopter that delivered food aid as part of Action Against Hunger's Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts Thursday in Panay Island, Philippines (CNW Group/Action Against Hunger (AAH))". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20131129_C6235_PHOTO_EN_34112.jpg
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SOURCE: Action Against Hunger (AAH)
to receive photos or to speak with an ACF contact: Camille DePutter, Director of
Communications Action Contre la Faim Action Against Hunger Canada 416.644.1016 x 6
/cdeputter@actioncontrelafaim.ca
http://www.menafn.com/d1d53731-10ed-4f46-a885-3a1a6181aa99/Action-Against-Hunger-and-Canadian-Forces-Deliver-Food-to-2000-Isolated-Children-in-Philippines?src=main
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Action Against Hunger and Canadian Forces Deliver Food to 2,000 Isolated Children in Philippines
TORONTO, Nov. 29, 2013 (Menafn - Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) --First relief reaches Panay Island since typhoon
With help from the Canadian Armed Forces, humanitarian organization Action Against Hunger (Action contre la Faim / "ACF") delivered food to nearly 2,000 isolated children in the centre of Panay Island Thursday.
Through the use of the Canadian Armed Forces' helicopter, ACF delivered 5.8 tonnes of high-protein biscuits to six areas in the center of the island of Panay, where no NGO had been able to reach since the disaster.
Nearly 2,000 children under the age of five and more than 200 pregnant or lactating women received food through the cooperative effort between ACF, the Canadian armed forces and people of the local community.
Panay island resident Elisabeth Bardero walked for more than two hours with her six-month old daughter Aisa to attend the food distribution. "I thought that with a little luck, there would be something for us," said Bardero, whose house was completely destroyed. "We eat mostly rice, because we have nothing else. Two of my children are sick at the moment: they have the flu because of the conditions we live in."
Explained Nilfa Diclaro, Department of Agriculture, Burias: "Eighty per cent of the population is poor here. Almost everyone is a farmer and they have only the food they grow. Most crops have rotted; even if farmers replant now it will take eight months for bananas and cassava to grow. The nearest market is an eight kilometer walk and prices have increased significantly."
Said ACF logistician Charlotte Schneider, "These extremely isolated communities were struggling even before the typhoon hit. We could never have reached these desperate people without the use of the Canadian Armed Forces' helicopter."
"More long-term work is needed to support families until the next harvest and help farmers re-plant, added Schneider. "Meanwhile, distributions of NRG5 (a high-protein biscuit) are a good way to supplement the inadequate food supply."
Canadians wishing to make a donation to ACF can do so online at: http://actioncontrelafaim.ca/donate-to-the-philippines/. The Canadian government has extended the donation matching until December 23.For ongoing updates please visit our website: www.actionagainsthunger.caFollow us on Twitter: @acf_canada
About Action Against Hunger Founded in France in 1979, Action Against Hunger/ Action contre la Faim (ACF) is a leading international humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger, with a special focus on children under five. Our programs save lives and provide communities with long-term solutions to hunger and its underlying causes. We work in more than 45 countries and reach approximately 7 million people annually.
SOURCE Action Against Hunger (AAH)
Image with caption: "Action Against Hunger delivers food aid to 2,000 isolated children in Panay Island, Philippines, with help from Canadian Armed Forces (CNW Group/Action Against Hunger (AAH))". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20131129_C6235_PHOTO_EN_34111.jpg
Image with caption: "An Action Against Hunger nutrition expert measures children for malnutrition in disaster-struck Panay Island, Philippines on Thursday (CNW Group/Action Against Hunger (AAH))". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20131129_C6235_PHOTO_EN_34113.jpg
Image with caption: "Children wave goodbye to the Canadian Armed Forces helicopter that delivered food aid as part of Action Against Hunger's Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts Thursday in Panay Island, Philippines (CNW Group/Action Against Hunger (AAH))". Image available at: http://photos.newswire.ca/images/download/20131129_C6235_PHOTO_EN_34112.jpg
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SOURCE: Action Against Hunger (AAH)
to receive photos or to speak with an ACF contact: Camille DePutter, Director of
Communications Action Contre la Faim Action Against Hunger Canada 416.644.1016 x 6
/cdeputter@actioncontrelafaim.ca
Canada:
The Filipino Association of Nova Scotia: www.filipinonovascotia.org
World Vision Canada: www.worldvision.ca or 1-866-595-5550
Chalice: www.chalice.ca or 1-800-776-6855
The Canadian Red Cross: www.redcross.ca
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Canada seeks to help Philippines get ready for future storms, minister says
As of Monday, the Canadian military task force in the Philippines had purified 117,633 litres of water, treated 3,321 patients, cleared 118 kilometres of road, and delivered more than 22,000 kilograms of food and other humanitarian assistance.
GLORIA GALLOWAY -OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail
Published Monday, Dec. 02 2013, 9:06 PM EST
The Canadian government was quick to dispatch aid to the Philippines when a devastating typhoon blew across the island nation last month, and the International Development Minister says Ottawa is now considering ways it can help Filipinos prepare for future super-storms.
Christian Paradis spent two days on the ground in the Philippines last week, observing the work of the Canadian military’s Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) in Roxas City on Panay Island and then travelling to the more hard-hit community of Tacloban.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-seeks-to-help-philippines-get-ready-for-future-storms-minister-says/article15731316/
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GlobalMedic continues to help in Philippines
RAHUL SINGH, Special to the Toronto Sun
The death toll has reached 6,000. Homes have vanished. Power is out. Communications are down. Infrastructure is destroyed. Roads are impassable. Airports are damaged. The masses are in need.
Words on a page can’t describe the reality on the ground.
This is the reality for Canadian-based volunteer rescue agency GlobalMedic as it works in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.
Documented as the most powerful storm in history to make landfall, Haiyan has affected more than 14 million people, leaving more than a million homes in ruin.
The United Nations categorized the emergency at the highest level and mobilized the entire global humanitarian system. GlobalMedic responded by deploying 23 Canadian rescuers from across the nation. Paramedics, police officers and firefighters volunteered their time and jumped into the fray. They are spread thin, running different operations on Panay Island (Iloilo), Cebu and Tacloban.
The first team in is led by Toronto’s Matt Capobianco, one of Canada’s most seasoned disaster responders. Cargo space on the aircraft was so tight, members abandoned their personal gear to ensure the water units arrived.
Capobianco’s team hit the ground running and, within hours, had installed large water-purification systems. They are running tankers filled with clean water to people in desperate need.
Sleeping on the floor and surviving on power bars, the team’s daily tasks are gruelling. They are in a race against time to stave off a second wave of death from occurring. Tens of thousands of survivors are relying on their daily delivery. Without it, survivors are forced to drink contaminated water. Vulnerable and weak, it’s a recipe for death.
The team works feverishly to keep the water flowing and expand its reach. Within days they replicated the operation to start running water operations in Tacloban, Palo Leyte and Tanauan.
There’s no time to collect bodies laying at the side of the road. The focus is on keeping the survivors alive.
Francoise Fortin is a detective sergeant in the Major Crimes Division with Montreal Police. She volunteers for the LÉGER Foundation, a strategic GlobalMedic partner based in Quebec. It is her first time being first through the door on a disaster response and the 26-year veteran is out distributing water purification tablets in decimated villages the tankers can’t reach.
Sean Large is leading the intervention in Iloilo. It’s his first mission since being on the first team into Haiti, just 61 hours after an earthquake. The images of that intervention still haunt him. They haunt us all.
Large deploys his team to run clinics and install water purification units and finds the hospital in Sara is severely damaged. His team installs a large shelter to help house the patients so care can continue.
Toronto Fire Capt. Jack Turner, a 26-year veteran, is on his first deployment. It strikes close to home. His wife and kids are from the Philippines. After travelling 36 hours, Turner’s first task is to load a truck with food destined for Tanauan. Five hours of sleep and he’s back at it, installing a water purification system, capable of purifying 100 litres a minute, to provide water for thousands of families daily.
Turner is partnered with Mark Matheson, a firefighter/medic with Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services. Both volunteer for sister agency GlobalFire.
A little over a year ago, Matheson was training firefighters just a couple of islands over. Matheson and Turner are running hose. But but this hose provides clean water to survivors in the decimated neighbourhoods of Tacloban.
Matt Brouwer is a Niagara medic on his second deployment. A couple of years back he deployed to the aftermath of a hurricane that struck St. Lucia. He was on vacation trekking in the jungles of northern Thailand when he answered our callout.
Brouwer leads a convoy of trucks headed on the ferry to resupply the Tacloban operation. His team endures torrential downpours to set up a field hospital in Dagami.
Pepito Biclar is a trained doctor who grew up on Panay Island. He came to Canada for a better life and works as a Toronto paramedic. Desperate to hear if his family survived, Biclar immediately volunteered to go. He and his wife needed help to watch their young children. His Markham neighbours, many of them from Panay Island, pitched in to help watch the kids. T
While splinting a fractured forearm, Pepito laments: “It is hard to see the devastation, and all the people that need our help.”
James Ligas is young, hip, urban dweller who works a Peel paramedic. In 2007, he deployed to Bangladesh for mass flooding caused by monsoon rains. His connection to Iloilo is personal. His family is from there.
In his first visit to his ancestral home, Ligas is tasked with helping rebuild homes on the isolated island of Nadisman. Working with villagers to rebuild, they reuse salvageable sheets of tin — and use ones our team provided — to put roofs back on homes.
Calamity is nothing new in the Philippines. The people are incredible. They are survivors.Resilient to the core.
Aliye Tuzlac is a true Canadian story. The daughter of Turkish and French parents, she grew up in Whitehorse and took her medic training in British Columbia. She is on the Iloilo mobile medical team that has treated over 750 patients.
Daily, they hike in or take small boats to reach isolated islands. She is a rookie who has decided to extend her stay and is being rotated over to work the hospital in Dagami.
Capobianco’s team has limited communications with the outside world. They rely on getting their updates and needs list out by satellite phone. Tonight’s update brings good news. Tankers delivered 51,000 litres of water; the team’s field hospital is operational; and 350 patients were treated. Mid-report the call goes dead. A few minutes later an out-of-breath Capobianco reports back. He apologizes for the lost call. He had to outrun a wild boar.
The needs are immense. Clean drinking water, shelter, and health care are critical. GlobalMedic has distributed nearly a million litres of clean drinking water, distributed more than five million water purification tablets and treated more than 1,200 patients.
The fight to keep people alive goes on. These heroes are starting to rotate home. Their tour is done. Others like them are inbound to take their place and keep hope alive.
The Canadian government has extended its matching donation program until Dec. 23.
For more information go to www.globalmedic.ca.
— Rahul Singh is executive director of GlobalMedic
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/30/globalmedic-continues-to-help-in-philippines
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Words on a page can’t describe the reality on the ground.
This is the reality for Canadian-based volunteer rescue agency GlobalMedic as it works in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.
Documented as the most powerful storm in history to make landfall, Haiyan has affected more than 14 million people, leaving more than a million homes in ruin.
The United Nations categorized the emergency at the highest level and mobilized the entire global humanitarian system. GlobalMedic responded by deploying 23 Canadian rescuers from across the nation. Paramedics, police officers and firefighters volunteered their time and jumped into the fray. They are spread thin, running different operations on Panay Island (Iloilo), Cebu and Tacloban.
The first team in is led by Toronto’s Matt Capobianco, one of Canada’s most seasoned disaster responders. Cargo space on the aircraft was so tight, members abandoned their personal gear to ensure the water units arrived.
Capobianco’s team hit the ground running and, within hours, had installed large water-purification systems. They are running tankers filled with clean water to people in desperate need.
Sleeping on the floor and surviving on power bars, the team’s daily tasks are gruelling. They are in a race against time to stave off a second wave of death from occurring. Tens of thousands of survivors are relying on their daily delivery. Without it, survivors are forced to drink contaminated water. Vulnerable and weak, it’s a recipe for death.
The team works feverishly to keep the water flowing and expand its reach. Within days they replicated the operation to start running water operations in Tacloban, Palo Leyte and Tanauan.
There’s no time to collect bodies laying at the side of the road. The focus is on keeping the survivors alive.
Francoise Fortin is a detective sergeant in the Major Crimes Division with Montreal Police. She volunteers for the LÉGER Foundation, a strategic GlobalMedic partner based in Quebec. It is her first time being first through the door on a disaster response and the 26-year veteran is out distributing water purification tablets in decimated villages the tankers can’t reach.
Sean Large is leading the intervention in Iloilo. It’s his first mission since being on the first team into Haiti, just 61 hours after an earthquake. The images of that intervention still haunt him. They haunt us all.
Large deploys his team to run clinics and install water purification units and finds the hospital in Sara is severely damaged. His team installs a large shelter to help house the patients so care can continue.
Toronto Fire Capt. Jack Turner, a 26-year veteran, is on his first deployment. It strikes close to home. His wife and kids are from the Philippines. After travelling 36 hours, Turner’s first task is to load a truck with food destined for Tanauan. Five hours of sleep and he’s back at it, installing a water purification system, capable of purifying 100 litres a minute, to provide water for thousands of families daily.
Turner is partnered with Mark Matheson, a firefighter/medic with Lethbridge Fire and Emergency Services. Both volunteer for sister agency GlobalFire.
A little over a year ago, Matheson was training firefighters just a couple of islands over. Matheson and Turner are running hose. But but this hose provides clean water to survivors in the decimated neighbourhoods of Tacloban.
Matt Brouwer is a Niagara medic on his second deployment. A couple of years back he deployed to the aftermath of a hurricane that struck St. Lucia. He was on vacation trekking in the jungles of northern Thailand when he answered our callout.
Brouwer leads a convoy of trucks headed on the ferry to resupply the Tacloban operation. His team endures torrential downpours to set up a field hospital in Dagami.
Pepito Biclar is a trained doctor who grew up on Panay Island. He came to Canada for a better life and works as a Toronto paramedic. Desperate to hear if his family survived, Biclar immediately volunteered to go. He and his wife needed help to watch their young children. His Markham neighbours, many of them from Panay Island, pitched in to help watch the kids. T
While splinting a fractured forearm, Pepito laments: “It is hard to see the devastation, and all the people that need our help.”
James Ligas is young, hip, urban dweller who works a Peel paramedic. In 2007, he deployed to Bangladesh for mass flooding caused by monsoon rains. His connection to Iloilo is personal. His family is from there.
In his first visit to his ancestral home, Ligas is tasked with helping rebuild homes on the isolated island of Nadisman. Working with villagers to rebuild, they reuse salvageable sheets of tin — and use ones our team provided — to put roofs back on homes.
Calamity is nothing new in the Philippines. The people are incredible. They are survivors.Resilient to the core.
Aliye Tuzlac is a true Canadian story. The daughter of Turkish and French parents, she grew up in Whitehorse and took her medic training in British Columbia. She is on the Iloilo mobile medical team that has treated over 750 patients.
Daily, they hike in or take small boats to reach isolated islands. She is a rookie who has decided to extend her stay and is being rotated over to work the hospital in Dagami.
Capobianco’s team has limited communications with the outside world. They rely on getting their updates and needs list out by satellite phone. Tonight’s update brings good news. Tankers delivered 51,000 litres of water; the team’s field hospital is operational; and 350 patients were treated. Mid-report the call goes dead. A few minutes later an out-of-breath Capobianco reports back. He apologizes for the lost call. He had to outrun a wild boar.
The needs are immense. Clean drinking water, shelter, and health care are critical. GlobalMedic has distributed nearly a million litres of clean drinking water, distributed more than five million water purification tablets and treated more than 1,200 patients.
The fight to keep people alive goes on. These heroes are starting to rotate home. Their tour is done. Others like them are inbound to take their place and keep hope alive.
The Canadian government has extended its matching donation program until Dec. 23.
For more information go to www.globalmedic.ca.
— Rahul Singh is executive director of GlobalMedic
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/30/globalmedic-continues-to-help-in-philippines
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Donations for the victims, visit http://www.redcross.org.ph/donate/
Credits to:
Claudio Monceda
Alex Badayos
..for the pictures
ANC Yahoo for the video..
Music: We are the World
For donations for the victims of the typhoon, please visit http://www.redcross.org.ph/donate/
Thank you for the 29 countries (as of Nov 12) who extend their hand to help the victims.
1. Australia -- medical team and search and rescue worth P40.456 million; financial aid worth P323.653 million; and relief goods worth P45.456 million.
2. Belgium -- medical personnel, water treatment units, and relief goods
3. Canada -- financial aid (P205.691 million) and relief goods (P102.845 million)
4. China -- humanitarian aid (P4.552 million)
5. Denmark -- financial ad (P77.268 million)
6. European Union -- relief goods, financial aid (P172.816 million), and a team of humanitarian experts
7. Finland -- relief goods (P57.605 million), and two motor boats for rescue operations
8. France -- medical team and search and rescue unit
9. Germany -- financial aid (P28.502 million), medical team and search and rescue unit, and relief goods
10. Hungary -- medical team and search and rescue unit
11. Indonesia -- relief goods (P87.045 million)
12. Israel -- relief goods and medical team and search and rescue unit
13. Japan -- medical team and search and rescue unit
14. Luxembourg -- medical team and search and rescue unit,a nd financial aid (P23.042 millon)
15. Malaysia -- medical team and search and rescue unit
16. Netherlands -- financial aid (P115.211 million)
17. New Zealand -- financial aid (P71 million)
18. Norway -- financial aid (P140.424 million)
19. Russia -- medical team and search and rescue unit
20. Singapore -- medical team and search and rescue unit, financial aid (P6.909 million)
21. Spain -- medical team and search and rescue unit, and relief goods
22. Sweden -- financial aid
23. Taiwan -- financial aid (P8.622 million) and relief goods
24. Turkey -- relief goods and medical team and search and rescue unit
25. United Arab Emirates -- financial aid (P431 million)
26. United Kingdom -- financial aid (P414.051 million)
27. United States -- medical team and search and rescue unit, and financial aid (P4.311 million)
28. Vatican City -- financial aid (P6.466 million)
29. Vietnam -- humanitarian aid (P4.311 million)
UN said that they need US $301M ~ Php12.6B
As of today, Nov 12, International Aid total is now P2.585B
Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/...
NEWS UPDATE: NOVEMBER 27- Did u know that Canadians can make their donations 2wards the Philippino Relief Fund through their BANKS AND CHURCHES..... as well
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PROVINCE OF Nova Scotia giving $50,000 to Philippines’ relief
November 15, 2013 - 6:54am BY THE CHRONICLE HERALD
The McNeil government is giving $50,000 to disaster relief in the Philippines.
Nova Scotia’s contribution is to help with recovery efforts taking place since typhoon Haiyan struck the Southeast Asian country last week.
People in this province “were saddened to see the incredible devastation inflicted on the people of the Philippines by the recent storm,” Premier Stephen McNeil said in a release Thursday.
“Our contribution to the relief efforts will help provide some comfort and support to survivors.”
The province’s donation will go to the Red Cross, which is working to meet the needs of those affected by the devastating storm, the release said.
Filipino Association of Nova Scotia stepping up for our Filipino brothers and sisters... we love u dearly. Peace of Christ.
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Pictures/Videos after Typhoon Yolanda hit the Philippines
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CANADA HAS DONATED OVER $19,000,000 SO FAR... GOV. $5,000,000 AND OUR MILITARY FORCES- DART AND TROOPS WHO WILL BE CLEARING ROADS
Hey
Nova Scotia- Our NS Filipino community needs us... Let's give bigtime 2 our
brothers and sisters of the Philippines- please... God's watching...
HOW
TO HELP
A
number of organizations are providing information and collecting money to
support relief efforts in the Philippines. The Canadian government has said it
will match Canadians' contributions dollar for dollar.
The
Filipino Association of Nova Scotia: www.filipinonovascotia.org
World
Vision Canada: www.worldvision.ca
or 1-866-595-5550
Chalice:
www.chalice.ca or
1-800-776-6855
The
Canadian Red Cross: www.redcross.ca
Nova
Scotian Filipino group urging public to donate aid money to Red Cross
November
12, 2013 - 7:06pm BY MICHAEL GORMAN STAFF REPORTER
It
took 24 hours but Maria Rocy Tendencia said it was a great relief when she
finally heard from family in the Philippines.
"I'm
praying that all the other Filipinos that are still waiting to hear from family
members are able to get information from other people," she said Tuesday.
As
relief organizations around the world mobilize to support those impacted by
typhoon Haiyan, Tendencia said the Filipino Association of Nova Scotia is
asking people to donate through the Red Cross.
The
federal government is matching Canadians' donations dollar for dollar.
Tendencia
said the Filipino association is planning a fundraiser for Dec. 6 in Halifax.
It's
taken time for everyone she knows to get information about loved ones back
home, said Tendencia.
In
the area most effected, Tacloban City, it's been especially difficult because
communication lines are still down.
Tendencia's
mother told her when people are able to find cellphones that work they are
sharing them as widely as possible.
"They've
been texting like crazy," she said.
Her
mother described the storm as a combination of a tornado and a tsunami that
destroyed everything in its path with a power no one had seen before, said
Tendencia.
"Grandparents
and the older folks have all expressed that they've never seen anything like
this ever in their lifetime."
help.
Please
donate to the following registered charities between November 9 to December 8,
2013 to ensure that every dollar that you donate is matched by the Canadian
federal government:
· Unicef Canada –
To send emergency supplies to Filipino children affected by the disaster.
· Canadian Red Cross-
To help with emergency supplies.
· Save the Children -To help
with disaster relief efforts for children and families affected. 10 per cent of
donations will be put aside for the next emergency.
· Global Medic Canada – To help mobilize the
Global Medic team with supplying Aquatabs for clean water for victims.
World Vision Canada
– To provide life saving essentials and emergency supplies to victims
Canada has donated over $19,000,000 so far.... Gov. Canada already $5,000,000 and our Canada Military D.A.R.T. and troops on the ground- more on the way- medical and clearing roads... the gut work.... u know ... the stuff our military of Canada does well...
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Typhoon-ravaged
Philippines visited by CIDA minister Paradis
The Canadian Press Posted: Nov 25, 2013 1:10 PM ET Last Updated: Nov 25,
2013 1:10 PM ET
Canada's minister for
international development is getting a first-hand look at the devastation of
Typhoon Haiyan.Christian Paradis has arrived in the Philippines and will travel to some of the hardest-hit areas of the country, including Tacloban, Ormoc and Roxas City, where Canadian relief efforts have been concentrated.
More than 5,000 people were killed and four million made homeless by the super-storm, which rolled over the island nation on Nov. 8.
Senior Canadian officials, at a briefing in Ottawa, said the military's disaster assistance response team had expanded its operations to the outlying areas of Panay Island, where Roxas City is located.
Members of the team were operating in the community of Sara, in the northeastern portion of the island during the weekend.
Col. Steve Kelsey, of the joint operations command, said the community of 45,000 was badly hit by the typhoon and Canadian officials have established a forward operating base there to co-ordinate further relief.
"This not only allowed our DART personnel to get into remote locations, but also to help aid agencies deliver relief, such as food and water to some of the more isolated communities," said Kelsey.
They are also keeping an eye on oil spill in nearby Estancia, where approximately 600,000 litres spilled from a power barge, inundating the shoreline. The Philippine coast guard has sent a ship to the area for containment and recovery of the spill.
DART's
resources are 'sufficient'
The DART commander on the ground,
Lt.-Col. Walter Taylor, said he doesn't expect to ask for additional resources
from Canada. The team is co-operating with the Royal Navy, which has also
deployed to the area.
Canadian
Forces personnel secure two CH-146 Griffon helicopters from CFB Bagotville on
board a C-17 Globemaster at CFB Trenton Nov. 17. The helicopters are now in the
area of the Philippines hit by typhoon Haiyan to support Canada's DART
humanitarian relief mission. (Lars Hagberg/Canadian Press)
"At this time, the
assessment is that the resources we have in the Philippines are
sufficient," he said via teleconference.The team includes engineering units that have been clearing away debris, medical staff and water purification units which have pumped out 55,000 litres of clean water.
Officials say Paradis, while in the Philippines, will meet with international humanitarian partners, which will be co-ordinating the reconstruction efforts.
Taylor was not able to say how long DART will remain on the scene, but suggested that many affected communities near the main roadways are moving from the relief toward the reconstruction phase of the disaster.
The outlying regions, where the team is now operating, are still in relief mode and need assistance, he said.
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Canadians living in the Philippines eager to volunteer for relief efforts
MANILA, Philippines – The crowd of more than
100 volunteers, packaging goods at Ateneo de Manila University this week for
areas devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, was made up mostly of teens and
twentysomethings. But although they were reacting to a disaster of major
proportions, chatter and laughter filled the air.
Out of the crowd
emerged Patrick Mayrand, a 24-year-old Quebecer with a smile on his face and
sweat dripping from his forehead. For two hours, Mayrand had been moving
50-kilogram sacks of rice so other volunteers could split them into smaller,
family-sized portions.
http://o.canada.com/news/canadians-living-in-the-philippines-eager-to-volunteer-for-relief-efforts/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDKf2GLGXGM
comment: We thank you all for helping us in times of need.
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to contribute another $15M for humanitarian relief in the Philippines
The
Canadian Press
Published Monday, November 18, 2013 9:29AM
EST
Last Updated Monday, November 18, 2013 11:52AM
EST
OTTAWA
-- Canada will contribute another $15 million for humanitarian relief in the
Philippines, bringing the total Canadian government contribution to $20
million.
Prime
Minister Stephen Harper announced the increase today during a visit to a
Toronto Catholic parish where he met members of the Filipino-Canadian
community.
"Our
government has taken decisive action to address the ravages of the typhoon by
working closely with the Filipino-Canadian community, relief agencies and the
government of the Philippines to provide ongoing support to those who need it
most," Harper said in a statement.
A
Typhoon Haiyan survivor carries a bag of his recovered belongings in the ruins
of his rural neighborhood on the outskirts of Tacloban, Philippines on Monday
Nov. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
He
said the money will go to a range of relief efforts
The
increase came as Canadian troops fan out to help people in the Philippines and
Foreign Affairs continues efforts to track down Canadians thought to be in
areas hit by the typhoon.
As
of Monday morning, the federal department had received inquiries about 213
Canadians and had located 174.
That
leaves 39 cases still being pursued by officials at home and in the islands.
Neil
Reeder, Canada's ambassador-designate to the Philippines, said Canadian teams
are working with local officials to track down the missing.
So
far, there have been no reports of Canadians killed or injured in the typhoon.
A
Canadian Red Cross field hospital is being set up in Ormoc, near the devastated
city of Tacloban. It's expected to be operational by Wednesday.
Meanwhile,
more military aid equipment -- including helicopters and a water purification
unit -- is en route to the Canadian area of responsibility on the island of
Panay.
Col.
Steve Kelsey of joint operations command said the first water unit should be up
and running in the city of Roxas by mid-week, with three more coming.
"Our
mobile medical teams have begun conducting patrols in the area in the areas of
need identified by our humanitarian partners," Kelsey said.
"Since
Sunday, these teams have provided treatment to people in the coastal towns of
Pilar, Pontevedra and other areas."
While
conditions are improving in some areas, problems remain, Reeder said.
"Access
to the affected regions has improved, but the access to some faraway regions is
still difficult."
He
said the Philippines government estimates that than 200,000 homes have been
totally or partially destroyed in the Canadian area, with over a million people
displaced.
"There
are also more than 250 evacuation centres established in these two
provinces."
Kelsey
said Canadian engineers are working to clear roads and repair the electrical
grid.
pox
Nov.
18, 2013
12:09
PM
Canada
initially committed $30,000 to aid the Philippines, and I wondered about the
amount? Finally our government is giving more aid. thank you.and the government
amount will increase, by matching dollar for dollar to those who have been left
homeless, injured and orphaned.
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CANADA
HAS DONATED OVER $19,000,000 SO FAR... GOV. $5,000,000 AND OUR MILITARY FORCES-
DART AND TROOPS WHO WILL BE CLEARING ROADS
Canada
has donated over $19,000,000 so far.... Gov. Canada already $5,000,000 and our
Canada Military D.A.R.T. and troops on the ground- more on the way- medical and clearing
roads... the gut work.... u know ... the stuff our military of Canada does
well...
Operation
RENAISSANCE 13-1
The
Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART)
News-
Philippines
The
Task Force
The
CAF task force currently includes:
70
DART personnel, including medical and support personnel;
Approximately
50 DART personnel drawn primarily from 4 Engineer Support Regiment from 5th
Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown as well as engineering equipment and
pallets of kit;
2
DND/CAF personnel as part of the Interdepartmental Strategic Support Team
(ISST);
The
ISST is the first element of Canada’s whole-of-government humanitarian
response. Led by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and
Development (DFATD), it includes representatives from the Canadian Armed
Forces. The ISST is ready to deploy at 12 hours- notice to move, and can be in
location of a major disaster quickly to consult the government of the affected
nation, liaise with international agencies and humanitarian organizations, and
make recommendations to DFAIT on potential areas for a Canadian response.
A
CC-144 Challenger to transport this team to the Philippines;
19
CAF personnel from the Humanitarian Assistance Reconnaissance Team (HART);
The
HART is a group of CAF personnel who deploy to the affected nation with the
ISST immediately following a major disaster in order to assist and give advice
to the ISST on CAF capabilities and employment. Made up of headquarters staff
and a reconnaissance element, the HART liaises with the ISST and the
headquarters of Canadian Joint Operations Command (CJOC) in order to prepare
for the arrival and employment of follow-on CAF assets.
A
43-member Advance Party of the DART, including medical, logistical, engineering
personnel, which will eventually prepare for the arrival of the main body and
DART capabilities which could deploy at a later date;
A
CC-150 Polaris transporting members of the DART and equipment to the
Philippines; and
2
x CC-177 Globemaster flights transporting the first two elements of the DART to
the Philippines.
Mission
context
On
8 November 2013, typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded,,
slammed into the Philippines setting off landslides, knocking out power in
several provinces and cutting communications in the country’s central region of
island provinces.
The
typhoon caused significant loss of life, a large number of injuries, as well as
destruction of property, leaving millions of people requiring humanitarian
support.
On
11 November, the CAF deployed elements of the DART from Trenton, Ontario to
support the Government of Canada’s relief efforts.
On
13 November 2013, the Advance Team of the DART arrived in Iloilo, Philippines
and the main body of the DART began to deploy from Trenton on board a CC-177
Globemaster. The flight carried approximately 50 personnel, including an
engineering unit from 4 Engineer Support Regiment (4 ESR), 5th Canadian
Division Support Base Gagetown (5 CDSB Gagetown), as well as pallets of kit and
equipment.
On
14 November 2013 a CC-150 Polaris aircraft carrying 70 additional DART
personnel, including medical and support personnel, left 8 Wing Trenton.
On
15 November 2013, the CC-177 Globemaster carrying DART personnel, including a
unit from 4 ESR arrived in Iloilo, Philippines.
Contingency
Plan RENAISSANCE
Contingency
Plan (CONPLAN) RENAISSANCE is the Canadian Armed Forces’ plan for rapid
deployment to the scene of a disaster overseas, as directed by the Government
of Canada. It provides direction to the CAF in the event of a decision by the
Government of Canada to respond to a request from another nation for help.
The
plan delivers a rapid CAF response that is flexible enough to make an immediate
positive impact at the scene of the disaster, and to continue helping people as
the situation develops.
The
Government of Canada’s response to natural disasters abroad is coordinated by
the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD) in
close partnership with core departments and agencies, including the Department
of National Defence and the Privy Council Office (PCO).
Interdepartmental
Strategic Support Team
The
role of the Interdepartmental Strategic Support Team (ISST) is to meet with
local and international representatives to assess the needs on the ground and
to identify potential follow-on response options to the Government of Canada.
Disaster
Assistance Response Team
The
Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) is a military organization ready to
deploy quickly to conduct emergency relief operations. It is one component of
Canada’s toolkit to respond to natural disasters abroad.
Before
the DART is fully deployed, an advance party is sent to prepare for the arrival
of the main body and DART capabilities which could deploy at a later date.
The
DART is a self sufficient, scalable military capability ready to deploy quickly
to conduct emergency relief operations for up to 40 days. Its main elements
include the DART headquarters, a logistics platoon, an engineer troop, a
medical platoon and a defence and security platoon. DART equipment, stores, and
supplies are stored at 8 Wing Trenton and are maintained for immediate
deployment by a small supporting staff.
The
DART is not designed to provide first response services, such as search and
rescue or emergency trauma care. Instead, it can be useful where the
capabilities of local governments and humanitarian agencies to provide primary
health care and potable water are overstretched.
The
DART serves three critical needs in emergencies:
primary
medical care;
engineering
help; and
production
of safe drinking water.
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Hey
Nova Scotia- Our NS Filipino community needs us... Let's give bigtime 2 our
brothers and sisters of the Philippines- please... God's watching...
HOW
TO HELP
A
number of organizations are providing information and collecting money to
support relief efforts in the Philippines. The Canadian government has said it
will match Canadians’ contributions dollar for dollar.
The
Filipino Association of Nova Scotia: www.filipinonovascotia.org
World
Vision Canada: www.worldvision.ca
or 1-866-595-5550
Chalice:
www.chalice.ca or
1-800-776-6855
The
Canadian Red Cross: www.redcross.ca
Nova
Scotian Filipino group urging public to donate aid money to Red Cross
November
12, 2013 - 7:06pm BY MICHAEL GORMAN STAFF REPORTER
It
took 24 hours but Maria Rocy Tendencia said it was a great relief when she
finally heard from family in the Philippines.
“I’m
praying that all the other Filipinos that are still waiting to hear from family
members are able to get information from other people,” she said Tuesday.
As
relief organizations around the world mobilize to support those impacted by
typhoon Haiyan, Tendencia said the Filipino Association of Nova Scotia is
asking people to donate through the Red Cross.
The
federal government is matching Canadians’ donations dollar for dollar.
Tendencia
said the Filipino association is planning a fundraiser for Dec. 6 in Halifax.
It’s
taken time for everyone she knows to get information about loved ones back
home, said Tendencia.
In
the area most effected, Tacloban City, it’s been especially difficult because
communication lines are still down.
Tendencia’s
mother told her when people are able to find cellphones that work they are
sharing them as widely as possible.
“They’ve
been texting like crazy,” she said.
Her
mother described the storm as a combination of a tornado and a tsunami that
destroyed everything in its path with a power no one had seen before, said
Tendencia.
“Grandparents
and the older folks have all expressed that they’ve never seen anything like
this ever in their lifetime.”
HOW
TO HELP
A
number of organizations are providing information and collecting money to
support relief efforts in the Philippines. The Canadian government has said it
will match Canadians’ contributions dollar for dollar.
World
Vision Canada: www.worldvision.ca
or 1-866-595-5550
Chalice:
www.chalice.ca or
1-800-776-6855
The
Canadian Red Cross: www.redcross.ca
The
Filipino Association of Nova Scotia: www.filipinonovascotia.org
and...
CANADA:
Philippines typhoon: How to donate to Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts
By:
Brendan Kennedy Sports reporter, Published on Mon Nov 11 2013
Several
Canadian organizations are aiding the relief effort and the Canadian government
said it will match every dollar donated by Canadians between Nov. 9 and Dec. 8.
In order to qualify for the matching program, the donation must be made to
registered Canadian charities and specifically earmarked for typhoon relief.
Here’s
how you can donate:
The
Canadian Red Cross has been assisting its Philippine counterparts since Friday,
working to meet the needs of individuals in crisis.
The
Humanitarian Coalition — CARE, Oxfam, Plan Canada and Save the Children — has
been working with its member agencies on the ground in the Philippines since
the disaster struck.
UNICEF
is working with its partners to provide life-saving essentials and emergency
supplies to children affected by the typhoon.
The
Canadian emergency-relief charity Global Medic has departed for the Philippines
and is focusing on water-purification in the affected regions.
<bullet>The
hunger-alleviation charity ACF International is on the ground in the
Philippines, where it is setting up portable water treatment devices to deliver
clean drinking water and help prevent the outbreak of disease.
The
United Nations’ World Food Programme is mobilizing food supplies to reach
thousands of people in need. Donations to the UN WFP will not be matched by the
federal government because they are not a Canadian charity, but as part of the
UN’s Flash Appeal launched on Tuesday, the WFP is seeking $83 million to
provide food across the country and support the Philippines government. Donate
at www.wfp.org/typhoon
or by texting RELIEF NOW to 45678 to donate $10 to families in need
Doctors
Without Borders is sending doctors to areas affected by the storm, aiming to
deliver medical services to survivors.
The
Christian charity World Vision has more than 50 years experience in the
Philippines, according to its website. Funds raised will go towards food,
blankets, household supplies, hygiene kits, shelter and clean water.
Community
and Family Services International, a Philippines-based humanitarian
organization, is on the ground in the affected regions, working with U.N.
agencies and the local government to deliver disaster relief and help
reconstruction.
The
International Fund for Animal Welfare is accepting donations that will go
towards rescuing animals in the area affected by the typhoon, its website says.
Canadians
looking for information on friends and relatives who may have been caught in
the affected areas can call Foreign Affairs’ 24-7 Emergency Watch and Response
Centre at 1-800-387-3124 or 613-996-8885.
With
files from Alex Ballingall
comment:
Aid
doesn't have to be money. It can be time, it can be food, it can be skills, it
can be medicine. I watched my two and three year-old daughters sort through
their toys yesterday in order to give some away to the boys and girls in the
Philippines who no longer have any. Now granted, I am a Canadian living in
Dubai, so I am closer, but the same can be done from anywhere. There are
thousands of Filipino Canadians whose families will have been impacted by this
storm. I set up a donation centre in my office and today we sent an actual
truckload of aid supplies to an NGO that will airfreight it for free and
deliver our "gently used items", canned goods and blankets to
communities in need by Monday. I'm just one person and it didn't cost a dime -
but now there are babies who will have formula and diapers and blankets and
toys, just because I was willing to give the time to organize it. (And time is
not something I have much of!)
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Another
contingent of 50-75 Canadian troops on their way 2 Philippines as well... we
love u- Canada loves our Philipino brothers and sisters- we're coming
darlins... and money $$$ being raised... we're coming...
Canadian
military advance team reaches Philippines, begins assessment
The
Canadian Press Nov 12, 2013 04:41:41 PM
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Churches
donate P35M relief good to typhoon victims
By Dennis Carcamo (philstar.com) | Updated November 12, 2013 - 4:08pm
MANILA,
Philippines - Several dioceses and archdioceses in the Visayas have donated
around P35 million worth of relief goods for those affected by super typhoon
Yolanda, a prelate said on Tuesday.
Fr.
Anton Pascual, executive director of Caritas Manila, the social arm of the
Archdiocese of Manila, said the donations came from the Catholic Bishops'
Conference of the Philippines, and the social action centers of Metro Manila
dioceses and Quiapo Church.
The
donations were distributed to six Dioceses and three Archdioceses in the
Visayas region, the hardest hit by the typhoon, including those in Capiz;
Ormoc, Leyte; Bantayan Island in Cebu, Guian Eastern Samar; Iloilo; Coron,
Taytay, and Busuangga in Palawan; and Calamian group of islands.
Fr.
Pascual said Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle initially directed
to release P5 million for the immediate relief operations in the areas severely
affected by Yolanda.
He
said 5,000 relief packs good to be consumed for three days will be transported
to the areas.
Meanwhile,
the Caritas Damayan relief bay contains five kilos of rice, six nutritional
foods, 10 liters of potable water, sugar, juices, biscuits and hygiene and
medical kits.
On
top of the P5 million, Fr. Pascual said that an additional P20 million cash
donations and 15,000 relief bags, worth of P8 million, will be released for the
typhoon victims.
He
said that the cash will be used to buy tents, medicines, and for the reconstruction
and rehabilitation efforts in the devastated areas.
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