24th Birthday Typhoon Relief Fund

Hi friends, I have a simple wish this week. Instead of buying me a cup of coffee, a drink, or present for my birthday, please help celebrate by donating to the restoration in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan that hit the Philippines on Friday, November 8th.

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Birthdays come and go each year, and my 24th birthday may just be another passing day in the pages. However, many of us have been blessed with not only food, shelter, and warm clothing - something we, myself included, take for granted too often. There is always a cause to give towards, but in light of the unexpected disaster that killed an estimated 10,000 people and displaced more than 600,000 in the central Philippines, I hope to give all of the raised money to Unicef's relief fund. Thank you for reading this!  

11/11 News Update: Tacloban, a city of 200,000 people on the island of Leyte, lay in ruins with bodies littering the streets in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. A civil defense official told NBC News on Monday that more than 56,000 homes had been destroyed on the island of Panay, with 83,000 others damaged. 

But there was no word from many communities. One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines, with huge waves sweeping away entire coastal villages and devastating the region's main city.

"What worries us is there are so many areas that we have no information from and when we have this silence this usually means that the damage is even worse," Joseph Curry, country representative for Catholic Relief Services, told TODAY.

“We’re unable to know the full extent of how many people are isolated and unreached, I would say it’s in the millions,” said Julien Anseau, an Asia region communications manager with ChildFund International.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/11/21399516-silence-worries-aid-workers-in-wake-of-typhoon-haiyan-56k-homes-wrecked-on-one-island?lite>1=43001