“Hello Marivic. I hope you and all your family and friends are okay after the typhoon. It's horrible and I'm getting ready to going to donate money to help. How are you?”

“Hello Blair were mostly good here but the some of my relatives and mother in law are all in visayas and Leyte and they are all suffering there and houses are all broken. Thank you for asking but we cant contact. i too gathered used clothes here to send there because for what reason government aside from more donation coming its not reach more people like our relatives there.”

“I'm so sorry Marivic it sounds so bad !!! I'm trying to get my workplace to let me put a donation suggestion email out to all company personnel in the country via the Red Cross and I'm taking clothes and tinned food to a collection centre for the Philippines. It's such a bad disaster - maybe one of the worst?? I'm glad you're okay, but what about all your relatives? I don't know how else to help apart from donating money and taking food/clothes.”

“Yes I think its the worst ever happened in my country.it is also said the strong typhoon in the world.till now we don't have news yet from our relatives in aklan .my mother and father are still waiting news from there brothers and sister living in that place.more donation only reach in tacloban Leyte but someplace like in visayas seems on there own.it sad but for now prayer is all we can do.my father want to go there in my old town but its not that easy.always money involve.thank you for helping my country.”

“That's so sad. How much money does your father need to be able to go search in Aklan for your relatives ? Maybe I could fund raise to get money for him??? Yeah that's right it is crazy how some smaller regions with less people get forgotten but I guess it is all about the priority. But I guess they just need to hold out longer til they are helped.”

“Probably 15 thousand pesos for one person can go there by airplane and with everything like food and for lodging if ever no place to sleep in.i really want to go with my father since my mom is not fully recovered yet from her mild stroke and my father needs help.she is worried to her bother and sister there.”

“Ok I'll try to start to fund raise at work. So, do you go with your father to search or would you look after your mother?”

“Yes I need to go with my father.i was 3 years old when I left visayas where I was born.my monther last time went there when my grand mother was passed away.i also want to see my relatives,nephews ANd knees that long long time I never see.i pray they alright because not heard.” “In advance I thank you.it helps my mom to have peace of mind to know how her brothers and in sister where doing.if ever we can go there i can take photo of us there and inform you about everything. It will be a great help specially for my mother its a wonderful christmas gift to my family.”

NEWS WEB SITE. Super Typhoon Haiyan Devastates Philippines More than 10,000 dead following one of the strongest storms in recorded history By Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo

An aerial view shows flooded rice fields after Typhoon Haiyan hit Iloilo Province, central Philippines on Nov. 9, 2013. One of the most powerful storms ever recorded, it killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines province of Leyte, a senior police official said on Sunday, with coastal towns and the regional capital devastated by huge waves.

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Residents walk near vehicles and debris floating on a river after Super Typhoon Haiyan. The Pentagon said it was providing the Philippines with naval and aviation resources, and the U.N. said it expected the death toll to rise and is sending emergency supplies to the stricken country.

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Residents walk on a road littered with debris after Super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban city in central Philippines. Photo by Erik de Castro/Reuters

Residents gather coins and other salvageable materials from the ruins of houses.

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Survivors carry a person killed by the category-5 super typhoon. Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters

Empty coffins lie on a street near damaged houses. As rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged villages along the coast, survivors foraged for food as supplies dwindled or searched for lost loved ones. Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters

Survivors stay in their damaged house. Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters

People look at a damaged village hall in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan in Iloilo. Photo by Tara Yap/AFP/Getty Images

Residents cross a collapsed highway caused by the storm surge. Photo Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images

A woman mourns in front of her husband's dead body.

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A pregnant woman cooks a meal inside a building overlooking destroyed houses.

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A mother weeps beside the dead body of her son at a chapel in Leyte.

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Two young boys look at the devastation in the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan on Nov. 10, 2013 in Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines. Photo by Dondi Tawatao/Getty Images