Share In her role as a goodwill ambassador of U.N. refugee agency, Angelina Jolie started two days of assisting Haiti earthquake victims. The Haitians were all happy to see her when she visited an SOS Villages camp for orphans outside the city after meeting with U.N. officials in Port-au-Prince . A U.S.-based Baptist group was [Continue reading]

Share At 7:19 p.m Tuesday, a magnitude of 4.7 quake rocked Surigao area in Mindanao. There were no reports of casualty according to seismologist. According Phivolcs, the earthquake was tectonic and was also felt in Soccorro, General Luna, Surigao del Norte; Loreto, Dinagat Island Province at Intensity III.  Whereas in Surigao City and Tandag, [Continue reading]

Share Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral was pleased after learning that the 21-member Philippine medical team in Haiti is getting generous support from the Filipino community. She said that they will be deploying new team of Filipino volunteers that will relieve those who are giving medical aid to the victims of the Haiti quake, but they [Continue reading]

Share 70 coming home According to the report of Philippine Ambassador MacArthur Corsino to Havana, who is also the head of the Philippine Recovery-Relief-Repatriation Task Force in Haiti, they are now finalizing plans for the return of about 70 Filipinos caught in Haiti earthquake back to Philippines.  70 out of more than 210 Filipinos [Continue reading]

Share It’s been more than 10 days since the earthquake in Haiti happened yet many haven’t received treatment.  The earthquake occurred 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on the 12th of January 2010, Tuesday, with a magnitude of 7.0. "It’s very difficult to treat people here because for a long time, they haven’t seen any [Continue reading]

Share According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, Filipinos and other foreigners in different sections of Port-au-Prince, Haiti have been reached finally by the relief authorities, giving them relief assistance. In his latest situation report, 10th Philippine Contingent commander Lt. Col. Lope Dagoy said that an initial census of Filipinos in [Continue reading]