Members of Calgary’s Filipino community are collecting donations to send to the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.
Connie Kriaski, who runs Calgary’s Pinoy Times, a Filipino community newspaper, is gathering donations of clothing, shoes, towels, blankets and non-perishable food items to send to the hardest hit cities in the Philippines.
She is also accepting donations of cash, which will be forwarded to a Manila-based charity.
Kriaski says some typhoon survivors have family in Canada to help support them by sending supplies and money.
She wants to reach out to other Calgarians who want to help, even if they don’t have loved ones in the disaster zone.
“Even if I don’t have any family there, I’d be the one to donate boxes of noodles to them because I believe that I have to give back,” says Kriaski.
Donations have flooding in to the Canadian Red Cross which has raised $1.1 million for Philippines relief in just two days.
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The agency is also deploying 12 Canadian medical personnel to set up a field hospital in the typhoon zone.
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To donate to the fundraising campaign by Calgary’s Pinoy Times, you can email the paper at pinoytimes.pinoytimes@gmail.com or visit its Facebook page.
In addition, Shaw will be donating $50,000 to the Canadian Red Cross, and will be matching all employee donations at a one-to-one ratio. Shaw has also made Filipino channels GMA Pinoy (channel 507), The Filipino Channel (TFC) (channel 509), and Filipino TV (FTV) (channel 510) available to all Shaw customers. A subscription to these three channels will not be needed, with no customer action required to receive them. Check local listings for channel availability and information.
In an effort to help those affected stay connected, all calls to the Philippines have also been made available to Shaw phone customers at no cost.
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