Collecting for Philippines Relief
Dates for Collection: Nov. through Nov. 2013
How You Can Help
Some Facts
· World Health Organization disaster classification: Category 3, the highest — on par with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the Haiti earthquake in 2010
· People affected: 12.9 million — 13% of the country's population
· Death toll (reported thus far): 4,460
· People left homeless: 1.9 million
· People outside evacuation centers: 575,378
· People in need of food: 2.5 million
· Amount of area destroyed in the storm's path: 70 to 80 percent
· Homes damaged or destroyed: 281,091
· Amount of homes lost in hardest-hit areas: 90 percent
· Most immediate threats to survivors (in order of urgency): Lack of safe drinking water, no shelter, untreated injuries and illnesses, insufficient food, lack of sanitation and personal hygiene items, lack of household supplies like fuel