Typhoon Relief

The full scale of the devastation in and around Tacloban City caused by Typhoon "Yolanda" (International name Haiyan) is now beginning to emerge.  Relief supplies of food and drinking water are already arriving as the international relief effort gathers momentum. Here in the UK the Disasters Emergency Committee will launch a public appeal tomorrow.

Many of the staff at our sister charity, Lifenet Children's Foundation are familiar with dealing with the aftermath of a typhoon having spent several weeks providing food and water to flood victims after typhoon Sendong ripped through Cagayan De Oro City in December 2011.

In conjunction with a number of other mission agencies, churches and charities, Lifenet are organising a relief aid team to go to the island of Leyte in the next few days to help with the aid efforts. They will be starting in Omroc and then looking to get out to the more remote areas that the bigger international aid agencies have not reached.

We have already received a number of donations and have sent out an initial £2000 to help facilitate this.

If you would also like to support them financially you can do so using the Paypal Donate button on this site (please use the comments box to quote the reference "Typhoon Relief" so we know what the money is intended for.

If you are a UK Tax Payer please also click here to get a gift aid declaration - you can email it to us using the contacts button on our main website. (note - an original signature is not needed on teh Gift Aid Declaration - you can just type in your details)

We have absolutely no operating costs so every penny given will be spent on bringing help and relief to the typhoon survivors who are in such urgent need.

The big aid agencies will probably spend about 3 - 6 months getting the situation under control but they will then hand over the ongoing work of recovery and reconstruction to the Philippines Government. In Cagayan De Oro 20,000 people had to live in a massive tent city for almost 2 years before enough new houses could be built to accommodate them all. It is likely to take quite a bit longer in Tacloban where the numbers are increased ten-fold.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.” —2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (ESV)