Pinoy students abroad do their share

Heard from a friend studying in the UK about Pinoy student communities all over the globe mobilizing to help.  He said efforts are amazing.  Found this facebook group, Student Calamity Fund: 430,000 people displaced by Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy)

Student led donation drive for the victims of Typhoon Ketsana (also called Typhoon Ondoy) in the Philippines. It is a joint effort of students and alumni all over the world including: Columbia, Harvard, INSEAD, MIT, Stanford, UPenn/Wharton, Audencia Nantes SOM, London Business School, University of New South Wales, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, SMU, IESE, AGSM, Berkeley, Yale, Babson, NYU, ESADE, Tuck, Purdue and others.

Drop-off points, donation facilities and mobilization updates by region/country in the discussion boards:

USA (East coast)
USA (West coast)
USA (Central)
Australia
U.K.
France
Spain
Singapore
Hong Kong, China
U.A.E. and Middle East
 

Let's talk hope.

We've already started talking to each other again as one people. We're looking each other in the eye, regardless of family background, school, occupation, religion, socio-economic class. Let's keep talking to each other. Let this dialogue be a source of healing for ourselves as individuals, and as Filipinos. Para sa bayan!

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