To Philippines with Love

Crisis

On November 8, 2013, Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), the strongest tropical cyclone ever recorded, made landfall in the Philippines. The storm caused massive devastation across the Visayan Islands, killing at least 6,300 people and affecting more than 14 million, many of whom were left homeless.

Campaign

AirAsia launched a group-wide humanitarian campaign to support relief transportation needs and to raise funds for rehabilitation of affected areas. With your support, we responded with our largest matched funding campaign to date, covering the following initiatives:

Humanitarian flights between Manila and Tacloban
Donation boxes onboard all AirAsia flights and at AirAsia airport counters
Fund-raising website at airasiafoundation.com
Contributions from AirAsia business partners and affiliates

Lead Partner

Philippine Red Cross (PRC) is a humanitarian organisation founded in 1947 to provide quality life-saving services that protect the life and dignity especially of indigent Filipinos in vulnerable situations. At present the PRC provides six major services namely Blood Services, Disaster Management Services, Safety Services, Health Services, Social Services, Red Cross Youth and Volunteer Services. The fundamental principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.

Results

Philippine Red Cross	Build 345 homes in Panay	USD 1, 040,223
Habitat for Humanity Philippines	Build 187 homes in Tacloban	USD 850,000
Hapinoy	Set up 133 sari-sari stores owned by women in Palo, Tanauan and Tacloban	USD 180,000
Rags2Riches	Provide art therapy and train 50 artisans in Tacloban	USD 50,000
Affected Airport Workers	Fund repair of homes for 58 airport workers in Cebu, Kalibo and Tacloban.	USD 54, 482