More than 20,000 families in Bulacan and Pampanga, whose houses are still submerged in flood waters, have not had clean drinking water and food for several days now.
The following organizations have the capability of bringing donations to these families: Donations may be sent by contacting the following numbers:
Volunteers who want to help in repacking relief good may also get in touch with:
NDRRMC at 911-1406 (National Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Council)
DSWD NROC at 852-8081 and 851-2681 (Department of Social Welfare National Resource Operations Center)
Philippine Red Cross: Donors through text messaging can type RED (space) AMOUNT and send this to 2899 for Globe or 4143 for Smart. Those who would like to donate through G-Cash can text DONATE (space) AMOUNT (space) 4-digit M-PIN (space) REDCROSS and send this to 2882.
Sagip Kapamilya of ABS-CBN at 411-4995; the Sagip Kapamilya team is at the Pinoy Big Brother Concert hall at Eugenio Lopez Drive, collecting and repackaging relief goods
GMA (Channel 7) Kapuso Foundation: 928-4299; 928-9351. Donors may deposit their donations in the Kapuso Foundation’s bank accounts, or send these through Cebuana Lhuillier branches
Why are dams located near thickly populated areas ( Norzagaray, Angat, San Rafael, Bustos, Baliuag, Pulilan and Plaridel and Calumpit in Bulacan; San Manuel, San Nicolas, Tayug, Asingan, Sta. Maria, Villasis, Rosales, Alcala, Bayambang and Bautista in Pangasinan)? Then, when the dam owners have to release the waters to prepare for a storm and inundate entire villages, the local residents are blamed for getting drowned. The children and old folks who get killed from the rampaging waters get blamed for dying.
Because the dam owners had already released 3-5 days’ notice – they are justified. As long as they release whatever kind of notices, they are “legally” covered under “protocols”. “We will flood your entire barangay whether or not you are there because we already gave notices.”
Does that even make sense to anyone?
And typhoon season is known to everybody – why can’t the release of thousands of tons of water be calibrated? Throughout the year, or over several months before the rains. Why are those waters released all of a sudden in one day such that the sheer force of the raging waters causes an apocalypse in the locality?
Why does drowning people make sense just because formalities of notices were made?
