Typhoon Quinta, with International Name Wukong, hit Western Visayas Region on December 26. It left 15 dead, including 13 in Iloilo and one each in Aklan and Capiz provinces. According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer Visayas, the amount of damage to crops and infrastructure brought by Typhoon “Quinta” in Western Visayas has reached at least...
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German aid agency donates funds for flood victims
Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, an NGO under Diakonisches Werk of the EKD, the Social Service Agency of the German Protestant Church, has donated funds to CDRC to help assist 2,260 families affected by the monsoon rains. Thousands of families were forced to evacuate after the southwest monsoon rains caused severe floods and landslide in Metro Manila and...
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Photo Gallery: Mercy Relief Project Final Inauguration
The Final Inauguration of the project: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation for Flood and Landslide-Prone Communities, was held in Baranggay Tigum, Pavia, Iloilo last April 9, 2011. This was attended by representatives from Mercy Relief, CDRC and the four local partners (PCDR, CPRS, DIRECT and PB.
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CDRC unveils Hazard Map in Iloilo
Iloilo – Humanitarian NGOs Panay Center for Disaster Response and Citizens’ Disaster Response Center, together with Singaporean partner Mercy Relief, unveiled the community disaster hazard map in Baranggay Tigum, Pavia, Iloilo as a culminating activity to its disaster preparedness project in Visayas and Mindanao. The project, supported by Singapore’s leading media company MediaCorp, was implemented...