Climate Action Philippines Project #12762

Help Filipino Communities Prepare for Disaster

by International Disaster Volunteers (IDV)

Project Report | Dec 30, 2013
Resolve to make 2014 a year of giving

By Emma Taylor | IDV Head of Media and Marketing

You can give them a safer 2014

We hope you had a Merry Christmas and thanks so much to everyone who has set up recurring donations following our email on the 20th!

Today, we’re looking back on 2013. It’s been a fantastic year. Thanks to you, Filipino community leaders have helped hundreds of community members prepare for disaster. More families than ever before are receiving texts telling them when they need to evacuate and more supplies are being stockpiled every day in preparation for the next flood.

Your investments have made all the difference for families like Mae’s. Because of you, Mae’s mom sleeps a little more soundly knowing that, if floods come in the night, she’ll be ready.

But while huge progress has been made in 2013, there are still too many families who haven’t received any training and who remain unprepared for the inevitable floods which affect their community. We also still need to stockpile more essential supplies – like food and drinking water – to ease suffering during and after floods.

This New Year, we hope you’ll resolve to help families like Mae’s prepare for disaster by setting up a monthly donation for 2014.

A meal costs just $.25, so your monthly gift of just $10 could feed 40 evacuees every month when floods come. When you set up your recurring donation before the ball drops and 2014 begins, GlobalGiving will match your gift.

Set up your monthly donation here

If you’re not ready to commit to a monthly donation, your one-off donation, whatever its size, will be gratefully received.

Thanks so much, and we wish you a very Happy New Year!

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Dec 20, 2013
You can give the gift of safety during disaster

By Emma Taylor | IDV Head of Media and Marketing

You can keep them safe this Christmas

Ryan and David are brothers. They live in a shack by the rivers and when floods come they need to evacuate. But their nearest evacuation centre is miles from their home. That means that in the past they’ve had to walk for over an hour in the pouring rain to reach safety.

Their parents would love to live somewhere safer, but they can’t afford to move. So they cling on living by the river.

Before the disaster preparation efforts that you’ve helped fund, the family lived in fear of the rain. They never knew which rain storm would lead to a flood, when they should evacuate, and if anyone would be there to help in the event that they were trapped in their home.

Now, thanks to the funding you’ve provided, David and Ryan’s family takes part in community based disaster preparation. That means that, during rain storms, they receive text updates on the river level which let them know when they need to evacuate, they participate in disaster preparedness training, and, after the flood, they know how to stay safe and healthy.

Your generosity means that David and Ryan’s parents know how to keep them safe during floods, but there are hundreds of other families in their area who face the same risks but haven’t yet received disaster preparedness training. We hope that, this Christmas, you’ll help us change that.

When you set up a monthly recurring donation between today and the New Year GlobalGiving will match your gift, and we’ll be able to help families like David and Ryan’s prepare to survive the multiple floods that affect them every year.

We hope you’ll consider setting up whatever monthly donation you can afford to support families like David and Ryan’s.

Set up your monthly gift here

Not ready to commit to a monthly donation? No problem. Whatever its size, your one-off gift will help vulnerable families learn to survive floods.

Thanks so very much - and, if you’re celebrating this year, we wish you a very Merry Christmas!

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Nov 25, 2013
This Thanksgiving Argee is thankful for you!

By Emma Taylor | Head of Media and Marketing at IDV

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