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28 March 2024

Typhoon Haiyan: Dubai community schools join aid relief for Philippine victims

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By Shuchita Kapur

Community schools in Dubai are raising awareness among students and encouraging them to help those devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Dubai British School, a Taleem institution, has circulated an urgent appeal to help the needy people who have lost everything due to the typhoon.

The school will have two events in order to raise money, one on Monday, November 18 and Friday, November 22.

The younger children of the school have been asked to bring to school unwanted toys, games or books in good condition.

All items are to be priced at Dh2 or Dh5.  All money raised during this event will be going to the Philippines appeal.

Students in the secondary school, on the other hand, are being encouraged to donate unwanted items in good condition like clothes, games, books, household items, CDs, DVDs, etc, which will be sold and the proceeds will go to help people in the Philippines.

This event is also open to the public.

Emirates International School is also appealing to students and parents to help.

“In support of the appeal from the Philippine Embassy we are calling on our school community to donate canned and bottled food, bottled water, juice, long life milk, sleeping bags, blankets, bedding, mosquito nets, toiletries, laundry detergent and soap. Together, we can make a difference,” the school appealed in their weekly newsletter.

GEMS schools are also encouraging students to donate items that can be sent overseas for help.

Wellington Primary has asked students to donate long life food items and things like blankets.

Typhoon Haiyan was one of the most powerful storms on record. This was a Category 5 typhoon (the most severe type of typhoon).

It has affected a total of 9.5 million people across the Philippines - and displaced at least 600,000 - when it slammed into the country, according to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 

Survivors were described as being in desperate need of clean drinking water and food.