Rotary Update: Cyclone Sendong: Taree helps the recovery

Cyclone Sendong: Taree helps the recovery - Local News - News - General - Manning River Times: "Barry Hicks of the Rotary Club of Taree has worked in the area where the cyclone hit for the past eight years in poverty eradication programs and providing tertiary education to the brightest of the poorest high school graduates in the community. An urgent appeal for help from Rotary Australia was made to Mr Hicks by Ariel Hernandez, the head of Balay Mindanaw, a large non government organisation. Balay Mindanaw is an official disaster relief centre, responsible for sheltering, feeding, clothing and giving medical aid to 4000 families. While hundreds of Rotary shelter boxes were delivered to Cagayan de Oro City in four days, blankets, clothing for children and adults, and walking shoes are still urgently needed as well as kitchen pots, deep bowls, camp stoves, energy fruit, muesli bars, chocolates, vitamins, soaps, tooth paste and toothbrushes. Philippine Airlines will air freight urgent supplies at no cost during the next two weeks, the rest will be packed into two containers and shipped in mid-January by Rotary Donations in Kind from the Wauchope and Sydney depots."

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