Anthony Suerte is one of the many injured children in Iloilo to finally receive healthcare services, weeks after super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippine’s Visayas. The three year old boy suffered from a severe infection on his left leg after being exposed to and...
One month has passed since super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, and millions of people, particularly those living in rural and isolated areas, are recovering slowly. Having successfully procured and distributed basic survival essentials including water, food...
65 year old Madam Juliana Ozamis and her son rushed to safety when super Typhoon Haiyan struck her village of Tambak in the municipality of New Washington, Aklan province. The lashing winds destroyed her house leaving her without any form of basic survival items...
Mercy Relief’s (MR) second and third response teams were in Leyte province on Sunday to personally distribute much needed relief supplies to the typhoon-ravaged communities of Barangays Cabuynan, Bislig and Santo Niño in Tanauan municipality. In response to a direct...
Mercy Relief’s second response team has established the logistics supply chain across the typhoon-ravaged Leyte province in the Philippines. The 3-man assessment team landed in Ormoc City on Tuesday to meet up with local authorities and ground partners to assess the...
Singapore’s humanitarian NGO, Mercy Relief (MR) landed into the Visayas on Wednesday, two days before super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall onto the Philippines. Working closely with local partners, together with Bohol’s government and Department of Social Welfare and...
Following a direct request from the government of Bohol, Mercy Relief (MR) dispatched additional units of its manual-powered water filtration systems, PedalPure to address the water issues across the quake-hit province. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake which struck...
Humanitarian aid organisation Mercy Relief today announced the resignation of its chief executive, Mr Hassan Ahmad, and the appointment of his successor, Mr Goh Chin Siang. Said Mercy Relief’s chairman Mr Michael Tay of the change in chief executive: “We’re sorry to...
A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake jolted Central Visayas in the Philippines on Tuesday morning, and triggered landslides which engulfed homes and damaged public infrastructures and historic churches. More than three million of the country’s nation have been affected...
The death toll in last Tuesday’s earthquake that hit the Philippines has touched 198, with 185 of those occurring in Bohol, the epicenter of the 7.2 Richter quake. More than 2.9 million people have been affected and 378,000 families are displaced, while many more are...
