GENEROUS residents of Bournemouth and Poole have donated more than £251,000 to the Philippines typhoon appeal – nearly £14,000 of which has come in via Daily Echo offices.
The UK public has donated more than £60million to the DEC Philippines Typhoon appeal, to provide aid such as food, clean water, and medical care.
The figure has risen steadily since the appeal launch on Tuesday, November 12.
Since the Daily Echo and Dorset Echo joined forces with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), cheques have poured in – reaching almost £14,000 at the last count.
Donations via text, phone and online can be added to that figure. The money is being used by DEC’s 14 member agencies to help people affected by the Philippines typhoon, providing vital aid such as food, clean water, emergency shelter and medical care.
More than 11 million people were affected by the typhoon.
DEC chief executive Saleh Saeed said: “Thank you to people in Bournemouth and Poole, who have been remarkably generous.
“It is now just over two weeks since Typhoon Haiyan devastated parts of the Philippines, yet the public continue to donate generously to the DEC appeal.
“Survivors of the disaster desperately need a huge amount of help both now and in the months to come, so this money will literally support people to rebuild their lives.
“DEC agencies and their local partners are already there providing hundreds of thousands of people with urgently needed supplies of food, clean water, medication, sanitation and temporary shelter materials.”
How to donate
You can send a cheque made payable to ‘DEC Philippines Typhoon Appeal’ to the Daily Echo offices at Richmond Hill, Bournemouth, BH2 6HH or the Dolphin Centre, Poole, BH15 1SZ.
Visit http://www. dec.org.uk, call the 24 hour hotline on 0370 60 60 900 or donate at any bank or post office.
You can also donate £5 by texting the word SUPPORT to 70000.
Your money buys: £25 – water purification tablets for ten families for a month; £50 – feeds a family for two weeks; £100 – emergency shelter and bedding for one family
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