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RELIEF EFFORT CONTINUES
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to assist with relief efforts in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan. Church Welfare Department personnel are working with Philippines Area leaders to establish a relief operations center and distribute supplies. Many areas affected by the storm are still without power or running water, and communication systems are not fully operational.

We encourage those desiring to donate to give generously to the Humanitarian Fund of the Church. You can help by increasing fast-offering donations and/or donating to the Church humanitarian fund (see http://bit.ly/1aF27Lf)

Donations to the Humanitarian Fund will bless God’s children around the world as calamities arise. Funds will be used under the direction of priesthood authority, and directed where they can provide the greatest benefit.

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Philippines Tacloban Missionaries in action after the super-typhoon Yolanda devastation in Tacloban and the rest of Central Philippines.

Photo by: Elder Matt Edwards

 

Evacuees at the Carajay Meetinghouse in Lapulapu City (Mactan) take shelter as early as the 7th of November as they braced for the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year.

Typhoon Maring and Habagat which started August12 and lasted for a week left so many communities flooded. Forty Mormon Helping Hands of Valenzuela Stake (diocese) packed 1,500 hygiene kits donated to affected families in Pampanga. Contents of the kits are bath soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoos and alcohol.

 

3,000 food kits were distributed to the same number of families in three of the hardest hit areas in Aurora province namely, Dipaculao, Dinalungan and Casiguran.

 

Missionaries from the Cebu East Mission together with members helped haul rice and goods from a C-130 cargo plane at Tagbilaran Domestic Airport.

Volunteers from all ages filled the dragon boats, happily looking forward to the day ahead.



In Sagbayan, volunteers cleared roads and sidewalks of dirt and debris while others cleaned the Sagbayan Elementary School in preparation for the November 4 resumption of classes.

Photo by: LDS Newsroom



From morning till afternoon, volunteers toiled unceasingly in order to clear the streets of dirt and debris.


The Mormon Helping Hands assigned in Sagbayan pose for a group photo after a hard day's work.



Metro Manila Mormon Helping Hands repack goods in Quirino and Comembo meetinghouse for Yolanda survivors. Alagang Kapatid Foundation will receive and distribute the goods in Tacloban



Tacloban missionaries spells service in action. A day after the worst typhoon to hit the Philippines this year made landfall, missionaries were at the DSWD warehouse repacking rice and goods, and helping distribute the goods.

Volunteers and Mormon Helping Hands missionaries repack rice inside the warehouse of the DSWD.
Tacloban missionaries spells service in action. A day after the worst typhoon to hit the Philippines this year made landfall, missionaries were at the DSWD warehouse repacking rice and goods, and helping distribute the goods.
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 The super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in the Philipines) killed more than 10,000 people and left south part of the Philippines devastated. Up to this day, 12th of November, dead bodies can be found everywhere in ...Leyte, Samar and Tacloban. Claiming to be followers of Jesus Christ, Latter Day Saints from the Philippines believe that “when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.” And as a response to this belief many Filipino LDS gathered in different parts of the Philippines to prepare relief supplies for the said typhoon. One of which groups are from Manila, the capital of the Philippines.