Berlin. 07 April. Responding to the queries of its readers, German daily newspaper, Der Tagesspiegel, immediately called for donations after typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) hit the Central Visayas region in the Philippines in November 2013.
Five months after the catastrophe, Der Tagesspiegel invited the Philippine Ambassador, H. E. Maria Cleofe R. Natividad to a turnover ceremony of the cheque worth EUR 256,981.63 to Tagesspiegel’s German partner, Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft” (Alliance Development Assistance) on 7 April 2014.
The donation will be distributed to three sub-organizations of Alliance Development Assistance: World Hunger Help, Christoffel Blind Mission, and Children’s Emergency Assistance (Kindernothilfe). Together with German Agro Action, an Alliance partner, and its local partner, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM), the donation will support a project called “Build Back Safer ” to rebuild houses in the north of Panay Island, around Roxas City. The building materials for said reconstruction will be made out of bamboo and/or palm trees which are more suitable and stable.
A cooperation with Christoffel Blind Mission will help victims of the typhoon with psychic trauma or physical disability in Iloilo and Marabut provinces in the northern Samar island.“Kindernothilfe” (Children’s Emergency Assistance) intends to rebuild kindergardens and schools in eastern Samar. The assistance will also include improvement of food and reconstruction of plantations on salty ground.
In her speech, Ambassador Natividad thanked the Tagesspiegel and its readers for the gift of hope for the Filipino people.
The Tagesspiegel covered the event on a half-pager of its issue the following day. END
