Habitat for Humanity launches appeal to assist those affected by Typhoon Hagupit

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Habitat for Humanity has launched an appeal to assist families affected by Typhoon Hagupit (called Ruby in the Philippines). The storm made first landfall on Samar, an island in the Visayas, Philippines, late in the evening of Saturday 6 December.

According to the Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, more than 146,000 families were evacuated in six regions of the Philippines.

“Habitat for Humanity is sheltering evacuated families in Leyte, Cebu and Surigao del Sur provinces of the Philippines. Staff and materials are positioned and we will begin to support affected families to repair their homes. The more funds we raise, the more families we can help,” said Rick Hathaway, Habitat for Humanity vice president for Asia-Pacific.

To donate, please visit habitat.org/giving/hagupit (global) or give2habitat.org/philippines/TyphoonHagupit (within the Philippines)

Habitat for Humanity is appealing for funds to assist families and help them rebuild their lives and gain access to decent shelter. Habitat staff are on the ground ready to assess the situation and coordinate with government agencies and other partners on the disaster response operations.

Typhoon Hagupit comes just 13 months after Typhoon Haiyan killed 6,300 people and damaged or destroyed more than one million homes, according to government figures. To date Habitat for Humanity Philippines has supported nearly 28,000 Haiyan-affected families with emergency shelter and shelter repair kits and begun construction of core houses at ten sites in Cebu and Leyte provinces.

Typhoon Hagupit is expected to continue moving across the Philippines.

#RubyPH: Globe provides Libreng Charging and Libreng Tawag services

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Globe

 is now working on the restoration of a base station controller located in Gigoso, Giporlos in the province of Eastern Samar. The company expects to begin firing up cell sites covered by the facility within the day.

Globe Senior Vice President for Corporate Communications Yoly Crisanto said that the network operations suffered no catastrophic outages from Typhoon Ruby. Most service disruptions were due to outages of commercial power and misalignment of antennas following strong winds brought by the typhoon.

Globe Telecom has offered Libreng Charging and Libren

g Tawag in sites in Leyte (Tacloban and Palo), as well as Libreng Tawag sa Pinas in 8 countries (Spain, UK, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, USA, and Italy).

Here's for you to share as well. For more information, you may refer to the links below:

Globe offers Libreng Tawag from 8 countries to the Philippines

http://www.globe.com.ph/press-room/globe-offers-libreng-tawag

Globe provides Libreng Tawag and Charging in Leyte

http://www.globe.com.ph/press-room/globe-provides-libreng-tawag-and-charging/tacloban-leyte

Globe Telecom initiates service restoration process

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Actual field work to start as soon as weather permits

Globe Telecom said Sunday its network operations team has initiated service restoration process in areas affected by Typhoon Ruby. 

As of 2 pm, December 7, the process mainly involves assessment of the typhoon's impact on network infrastructure as weather remains unfavorable for field personnel to do actual field work.

Still, the company's operations team in Visayas is ready to address network concerns brought by Typhoon Ruby, weather permitting, Senior Vice-President for Corporate Communications Yoly Crisanto said. "The safety of our employees is our main priority at any given time. Needless to say, the company is ready to execute service restoration as soon as weather permits. We're hoping to undertake actual field work by tomorrow (Monday)," Crisanto said.

The telecommunications provider said initial assessment indicates there are no major outages caused by Typhoon Ruby, which made landfall in Eastern Samar Saturday night. Service disruptions were due mostly to power outages and misalignment of antennas following strong winds brought by the typhoon, she said.

As part of its preparation to cushion the impact of Typhoon Ruby, the mobile operator has prepositioned critical tools, spares and equipment to expedite recovery process. To minimize significant damage to network infrastructure, Globe also implemented a preemptive measures that include a temporary service interruption of mobile coverage in Eastern Samar. Full restoration may be completed within a 48-hour period after recovery efforts are initiated.

As of 12 pm of December 7, service interruptions have been monitored in some areas in the provinces of Biliran, Eastern Samar, Northern Samar, Leyte, Southern Leyte and Western Samar.