Tiendesitas, Pasig City, December 10, 2013
I had a business meeting with our Joint Venture Partners and one of them, Dr James is a cosmetic surgeon, and is member of operation smile.org. (As you know, they operate free on children with cleft chin worldwide for free, so that they can smile again) They will be donating $100,000 for the Supertyphoon Yolanda victims. They are now doing away with relief packs, water rice. the usual food and relief donation.
They thought, Dr. James thought that they will be donating housing kit, each worth P10,000 be shipped from Cebu. What the people need now is shelter. The $100,000 will be good for about 400 housing kits (that is what the Melinda Gates foundation did for the Habagat victims in our place)
Providing sheleter repair kits - from CNN
ShelterBox
was already in the Philippines providing shelter after the 7.2
earthquake that hit Bohol on October 15. They are now expanding their
operations to provide tents and essential equipment for families left
homeless after Typhoon Haiyan. You can support their work in the
Philippines either online or by calling 1-941-907-6036.
Habitat for Humanity
is providing shelter repair kits to help survivors rebuild their
damaged homes. You can support this work by donating from the
Philippines to their Re-Build Philippines Fund or from the U.S. by contributing to their Disaster Response Fund. You can also make a donation by phone at 1-800-HABITAT.
Habitat for Humanity has allready provided 5,000 shelter repair kits in the supetyphoon Yolanda damaged areas. It plans to distribute 30,000 more. More than a million lost their homes from the supertyphoon The kits contain plywood, lumber, galvanized iron sheets, a hammer, a
saw and nails. In addition to distributing the kits, Habitat provides
training on safe building practices. The shelter repair kits fast track rehabilitation and recovery of typhoon victims by giving them hope - by having restored their homes instead of living in tents or barracks (Obama?)
God bless their souls and many thanks. May you believe more in what Andrew Carnegie once said
(For other businessmen, Andrew Carnegie, a steel magnate and one of the early millionaires in US said that "one of the biggest disgrace is to die with plenty of money"
