Excerpts from NBC Worldnews:
As the tropical sun rose over the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan blew out to sea, and the magnitude of death and destruction slowly came into focus, the Filipino masses responded with long-cherished national values.
Amid a national catastrophe of unimaginable scope, with at least 10,000 feared dead and entire communities leveled by the winds, Filipinos in areas spared the wrath of Typhoon Haiyan are mounting fund-raising and donation drives to aid their storm-battered kin and friends.
The scale of need is enormous. Millions lack shelter. Relief operations have been hampered by heavy debris in harbors and destruction at airports. Felled trees, upended electricity posts and downed power lines have left all but a few roads to the disaster sites impassable.
By Facebook, Filipina Mai Arnaiz Jardeleza-Cataquiz called attention to Estancia, where the dire situation was still unknown. Tagging local journalist Carmela Huelar, the message reads: “In Estancia, Ilo-Ilo alone many many dead bodies are turning up [along] the shoreline. Some of the deceased are from the neighboring islands/provinces and the deceased from Estancia showed up in the neighboring island shores of Carles, Iloilo and other surrounding islands.”
These people have lost much of their lives, yet their courage is undeniably inspiring. Please help in any way possible, even if it is just spreading the word.
New Wave Reporting 