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Following the directive of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to bring water purifiers in Bicol communities affected by Tropical Storm Kristine, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority deployed a 30-man clearing team and 20-man search and rescue team to assist in areas hit by heavy rains and floods. The team brought with them 40 solar-powered water filtration […]
For his work in helping those affected by floods brought by Super Typhoon Carina and the southwest monsoon, actor Gerald Anderson deserves a commendation and a promotion in the Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary Unit. Senator Robin Padilla stressed this in a resolution where he sought a one-rank promotion for Anderson – Gerald Randolph Anderson Jr. […]
Amid continuous heavy rains due to the southwest monsoon and Typhoon Carina, volunteers and staff of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) are assisting affected Filipinos on the ground. PRC Chairman and CEO Dick Gordon convened his team early to immediately mobilize RC143 volunteers and dispatch emergency vehicles, such as rescue boats, ambulance units, and 6×6 […]
The House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs chaired by KABAYAN Party-list Representative Ron Salo held a briefing with concerned agencies on the current situation of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in Israel, as well as their ongoing evacuation and repatriation efforts. Salo conveyed his deepest sorrows and sincerest condolences to Filipinos who lost their loved ones […]
A fire truck and an ambulance unit of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) responded to a vehicular crash that left one male pedestrian dead and another injured at Madison St. corner Pioneer St. in Mandaluyong City recently. The PRC’s Emergency Response Unit extricated the two pedestrians and helped other rescuers provide urgent prehospital treatment and […]
Philippine Red Cross Chairman and CEO Dick Gordon directed staff and volunteers of the premier humanitarian organization in the country to provide the immediate needs of the families affected by the Low Pressure Area (LPA) and Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) in Mindanao. PRC volunteers and staff served hot meals to 1,691 internally displaced persons (IDPs) […]
Metro Pacific Tollways South (MPT South), a subsidiary of Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC), the toll road development arm of Metro Pacific Investment Corporation (MPIC), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) to address cases of stray animals wandering the busy roads of the Manila-Cavite Toll Expressway (CAVITEX), CAVITEX C5 Link, and the […]
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) urged the House of Representatives to call for a joint and full-blown investigation into the rescue of indigenous peoples (IP) children in Cebu in order to introduce measures that will strengthen laws on the protection of their rights and welfare. NTF-ELCAC spokesperson Undersecretary Joel […]
Senator Dick Gordon is calling for defined policies for local government units in responding to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Gordon made the call after the Philippine Red Cross, where he is chairman and CEO, rescued a nurse with COVID-19 who was evicted from her boarding house and was later seen roaming the streets of […]
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), through its Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) in La Union, has successfully released back into the wild a juvenile barn owl (Tyto alba), a day after it was spotted by a farmer in Bauang town. The young owl was discovered by Gil Elopre in his […]