As you lot in all likelihood know some of the islands inward the Philippines were of late wiped out yesteryear a typhoon inward April. See below article snippet. Through diverse humanitarian efforts schools are beingness rebuilt thus children tin transportation away larn dorsum to school. However, my friend Andy Trish of late travelled to the Philippines in addition to discovered that those efforts incorporate no provision for computers inward those schools. Andy is taking it upon himself to pay his ain expenses fully to install equally many figurer labs equally inward these newly built schools equally in that place are computers to populate them. He hoping for upwards of 500 computers total.
Locally DHL has agreed to render complimentary transportation for whatsoever computers that nosotros would similar to send. Harbor Computer Services volition laid upward the computers in addition to brand certain they are inward practiced working status in addition to packet them upward for shipment.
What nosotros postulate are computers alongside at to the lowest degree 1 twelvemonth of life left inward them. H5N1 PC or Laptop volition do. The PC’s postulate to live consummate alongside mouse, keyboard in addition to monitor. If you lot accept whatsoever to donate delight allow us know in addition to we’ll come upward choice them up.
Regarding taxation write off, in that place won’t live any. This is a somebody effort. Andy is working alongside in addition to us in addition to DHL in addition to other information technology firms in addition to BYond.org, to install the labs inward their schoolhouse projects simply the equipment volition non time period through them. It’s going straight from you lot to a schoolhouse thus when they opened upward on hateful solar daytime 1 in that place volition live computers for the teachers in addition to kids.
Email or telephone yell upward us if you lot accept a figurer or laptop hanging closed to the utilisation that industrial plant simply isn’t needed anymore.
Thanks for your support!
The situation
Typhoon Haiyan (locally known equally Yolanda) struck Central Philippines on Friday, viii Nov 2013, alongside an unprecedented fury through a combination of cyclonic winds (winds of 235 kph in addition to gusts of upward to 275 kph), heavy rains which led to flooding in addition to landslides, coupled alongside tsunami-like tempest surges along the coast lines. Haiyan made landfall inward Guiuan, Eastern Samar, in addition to thus cutting across Visayas, the islands of Leyte, Cebu, Bantayan, Panay, in addition to northern Palawan, lastly heading out to sea, westward of the Philippines.
According to the Philippine National Disaster Risk Reduction in addition to Management Council (NDRRMC) update issued on 17 Apr 2014, this combination of powerful forces caused a devastating humanitarian impact resulting inward some 6,300 deaths, closed to 28,700 people injured, in addition to to a greater extent than than 1,000 people unaccounted for.
In add-on to human suffering, Haiyan caused extensive devastation in addition to impairment to housing, livelihoods in addition to infrastructure, leading to a drastic reduction inward living conditions, income, in addition to access to basic services. More than sixteen 1000000 people (some 3.4 1000000 households) were affected, alongside 489,600 houses totally destroyed in addition to 595,100 partially damaged. Affected areas include Tacloban City (which received the heaviest impact) inward Leyte Province; Eastern Samar (area of get-go landfall); the northern tip of Cebu in addition to Bantayan Island; Negros Occidental; Panay Island, and; Palawan.
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