Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana)
Reports from friends are coming in from Manila (population: 15 million) of the worst flooding 40 years. Typhoon Ketsana (or Ondoy, as it is locally known) poured an entire month’s of rainfall on Manila in just 24 hours. Aid has been slow to spread as the President Arroyo was slow to act at first. Estimates place more than 345,000 as having been evacuated from their homes and experts are using this as an example of climate change.
A friend in Manila sent me a list of the following NGOs doing work on the ground to consider donating to:
