How Can I Help?
There are many ways you can help save lives and restore lives of Philippines typhoon and Philippines flood victims. This is true regardless of your financial status or whether or not you are actually in the Phlippines! Read on to learn more.
Helping Philippines Typhoon Victims
There are many ways you can help the victims of the Philippines typhoons and resulting Philippines flood. Only one of those methods is through financial support. The most important thing we want to point out in this section is that while financial help is definitely needed, there are other ways you can help. In some cases, you don’t even have to leave your computer to contribute significant help to this cause! So please don’t leave this section until you have read through all of it. Again, no matter what your financial status or where you are located in the world, if you can read this and have a basic understanding of how the internet works these days, you CAN help!!! Please continue reading to learn more!
“How Can I Help Philippines Typhoon Victims?”
While this question obviously belongs in our FAQ section (soon to come), it is obviously going to be the most commonly asked question on the entire subject of the Philippines typhoon and Philippines flood. After all, people all over the world are pouring out their hearts online and are opening their wallets in spite of the world-wide economic downturn. However, so much more help (and not just financially) is needed. This being the case, we decided to give this question a page of it’s own (this one). We hope to focus every single person on the internet around the world who has this critically important question in their mind to this page. So please tell all of your friends about this page and our site, even if you decide not to participate personally! Even that is a form of help!
Methods of Assistance
There are three ways you can help victims of the Philippines Typhoon and Philippines flood. What’s most important for all who read this to understand is that every person who is reading this is capable of helping in at least one of the three following areas. Please carefully consider these options, and help out in some way. Even a few minutes here and there can quite literally make the difference between life and death!!!
1. Financial Assistance
This one aspect of the subject of helping Philippines typhoon and Philippines flood victims has been the sole reason it has taken so long to get this page online. To our surprise, and for many reasons, the entire subject of financial assistance to the victims is somewhat controversial. For example, we ourselves are not a non-profit organization. So how do we even approach this subject? If an organization we list on this website ends up not putting the money where they are supposed to for any reason, are we going to be held liable? Even handling what we should say and what we shouldn’t say here on this website about the financial assistance needed has been widely debated. We have therefore left this page offline while trying to determine how best to present this option. We’ve already been sent many emails with questions like, “I want to help, but how can I be sure that all of the money will go directly to the victims?” and “I’ve heard there is a lot of corruption in organization XYZ, so although I am willing to contribute, I need some other way of doing so” and “How can I get money from my country to yours without being charged an arm and a leg in exchange rates?” and “Will my little bit of money even help?”
All of these are good questions. All have a legitimate need to be answered. We have endeavored long and hard to come up with an answer to all of these concerns that should satisfy anyone who is ready, willing and able to make financial contributions. As mentioned above, we are developing an FAQ section of our website. As we get good solid answers to these questions, we will be happy to provide the answers in that section as soon as we get it online.
DISCLAIMER:
Any organizations listed in our News & Updates section who are offering to help are in no way endorsed by this website or anyone representing this website. The only organizations which we ourselves have personally confirmed as ensuring 100% of any donations go directly to those victims in need will be listed on this page which you are viewing right now. Any other organizations not listed on this page, but that may be listed in the News & Updates section have not been verified in any way by our staff of volunteers! They are listed only in that area only because we found them advertising their organization’s willingness to help somewhere else on the internet. Please do your own due diligence before donating funds to any organization you might come across here or anywhere else!
2. Physical and/or Logistical Assistance
To the best of our knowledge, no physical or logistical assistance is needed at this time. All flood waters have subsided. However, estimates of the damage are well into the millions (U.S. dollars) or billions (Philippines Pesos). Millions of people have returned to where their home used to be only to find that their home is no longer there, since any evidence that there ever was a home there has been washed away in the floods. Rebuilding homes and other buildings damaged or lost in the Philippines typhoons will be ongoing for at least a year or two. Any help you might be able to offer to this end would be greatly appreciated.
If you’d like to offer your assistance in rebuilding homes or businesses that have been damaged or lost, please use the form on the ”Contact Us ” page and let us know.
3. Get the word out
As mentioned above and elsewhere on this site, even if you don’t have the means or the desire to render any of the assistance described in the first two options above, you can still help, and you can do so right now, while you’re sitting right there in front of your computer. Here’s how:
Bookmark This Site
Using the Bookmarking tool at the bottom of any page on this website, you can help us get the word out about the needs of the Philippines typhoon victims. Simply bookmarking this site on as many of the social bookmarking sites as you can or are willing to creates more “buzz” on the internet for what we are trying to accomplish. If enough people do this, more and more people will hear about what we are trying to do and will come visit our site. Sooner or later, this website will be on the first page of any search engine for any keyword related to the Philippines typhoons.
For example, our home page has already been submitted to Digg.com. If you try to submit it again, Digg will tell you that it has already been submitted, and will show you the submission. You will have the option to “Digg” the submission. If enough of our visitors do this and give us positive reviews, our listing will end up on the front page of Digg.com, exposing our efforts to millions of Digg readers!
To learn more about these techniques and how you can help by using them for the benefit of the Philippines typhoon victims, please submit a request for more information on this on our “Contact Us” page.
Use Your Twitter Account
Philippines Typhoon is on Twitter, and hopefully so are you! Following Philippines Typhoon helps us spread the word about what we are trying to accomplish, especially if you ‘re-tweet” our tweets. You could also simply tweet about what we are trying to do on your Twitter account. For as long as you include a link to any page on our site, you are helping to get the word out. Sooner or later, the search engines will see your tweets (especially if you do this often) and will list your tweets on our site.
Follow Philippines Typhoon on Twitter
Use Your Facebook Account
Use your Facebook updates to tell your friends about what we are doing, and be sure to use correct and proper links when you do so. You see, not only will your friends learn about what we are trying to do and the plight of Philippines typhoon victims, but if you do this on a regular basis, sooner or later the search engines will see the links you’ve posted. If enough people do this, our website will eventually end up on the front page of the search engines for any search relevant to Philippines Typhoon.
In addition to putting links to pages on this site in your Facebook updates, you can also create a Facebook Fanpage to make others on Facebook aware of what we are trying to accomplish! Be sure to include links to our website and Twitter account there as well!
Use Your Blog
Do you have a blog? Simply link to the Philippines Typhoon website, and let your followers and subscribers know what we are trying to do here. Who knows what one simple link might bring in terms of assistance to Philippines typhoon victims? Isn’t it worth the few minutes it would take to create one or more links on your blog or website, or perhaps even create a blog post about it?
Other Methods
The internet is a big place, so there are lots of ways to help. These few methods mentioned herein are just a few methods in the general realm of a new phenomenon on the internet known as Social Media. Hundreds – maybe thousands – of social media sites and social bookmarking sites exist on the internet, and every single one of them has the potential to help us that much more in achieving our online goals of trying to get the word out.
In any case, it’s a snowball effect. The more exposure we get through your bookmarking efforts, the more people that will visit this website. The more people who visit this website, the more people that will hopefully be willing to contribute and donate whatever they can to help. The more people who do that, the more food, water, medicine and other assistance that will be available to those who desperately need it, without which many of whom would surely perish!
If you’d like more information on these methods – or any other method you might know about – for helping to get the word out about the plight of the Philippines typhoons and Philippines flood victims, please don’t hesitate to let us know!