The Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC), a non-profit organization advocating community-based disaster management, is pushing for a comprehensive disaster management in the Philippines. “Relief delivery is only one aspect of disaster risk management, but equally more important are disaster preparedness and rehabilitation,” said Carlos Padolina, Deputy Executive Director of CDRC during a relief delivery operation...
Author: Citizens Disaster Response Center
Post
CDRC provides relief aid to families in Marikina
Marikina – The Citizens’ Disaster Response Center provided relief assistance to 738 families at an evacuation center in Malanday on Saturday. This was in support of the ongoing emergency response to poor urban communities that have been devastated by Typhoon Ondoy. “This is my first time volunteering for CDRC and I feel happy after the...
Post
CDRC offers 25th year anniversary to Ondoy victims
In commemoration of its 25 years of service, the Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC) offered October 6 to the more than a million victims of tropical storm Ondoy with a mass and relief delivery operation. This day marks the founding day of the organization. “Since last week, we have been receiving clothes, food, medicines and...
Post
“Pepeng” death toll now at 375
The death toll from the heavy rains and landslides brought by Typhoon Pepeng (Parma) rose to 375 after more bodies were recovered, majority of which came from the landslide-hit areas of the Cordillera Region, and the flooded province of Pangasinan. The National Disaster Coordinating Council said, 185 were injured, and 48 remain missing. The number...