Super Typhoon Rai/Odette Relief Fund

Thank you for your support of GlobalGiving’s Super Typhoon Rai/Odette Relief Fund. Over the past nine months, your donation enabled our vetted nonprofit partners across the Philippines to meet the evolving needs of their community members. 

We recently made our final round of flexible grants to trusted organizations that continue to serve communities affected by the typhoon. The fund has powered 19 grants to high-impact and community-led nonprofit organizations at the forefront of the recovery.

Here is a snapshot of some of the critical work you’ve supported. You can find a full list of nonprofit partners that received a grant from the Super Typhoon Rai/Odette Relief Fund at the end of this report.

• Las Piñas Persons with Disability Federation advocates for the rights of persons with disabilities in the Philippines and has more than 10,000 members across the country. Through its network, the organization is providing assistive devices to people with disabilities in more than six storm-affected regions. Many of these communities lost their assistive devices during the typhoon.

• Citizens’ Disaster Response Center Foundation supports the most disaster-affected and underserved communities in the Philippines through preparedness, mitigation, emergency relief, and long-term recovery programs. It is serving 250 fishing families in the most impacted areas by replacing lost fishing equipment, providing training on responsible fishing methods, and offering workshops and public awareness campaigns to help reduce marine garbage.
  
  
• The Bicycle Scouts Project is a Filipino-led social platform for cyclists that is collecting feedback from storm survivors to improve typhoon preparedness. It has also partnered with United Nations agencies and other nonprofit organizations to organize workshops that deepen knowledge of resilience and the climate crisis among its community and team members in disaster-affected areas.

• WONDER Foundation is providing scholarships to students from families that were directly impacted by the typhoon. Many of those families lost income after the storm and were unable to pay their children’s school fees.

• Tribes and Natures Defenders is providing funding and technical support to tribal communities to recover their farmlands and mitigate the impacts of future disasters. Planting coffee trees that are more resilient to typhoons is one technique they’re using. 

• Planet Water Foundation is deploying several of its AquaTower water filtration solutions in storm-affected communities. Each tower can produce 1,000 liters of safe drinking water per hour.

• OISCA International continues to assist more than 40 silk farmers on the island of Negros who rely on their farms for income. One is Pedro Benigay, a silk farmer with a family of five. He received construction materials to rebuild a silkworm-rearing house the typhoon destroyed.

“Our farmers, particularly those who are in upland areas, are mostly living off the grid. We often hear from them how grateful they are that they received more assistance from us… With [Pedro’s] newly constructed rearing house, he already produced cocoons.” 

– OISCA International 

Your support of the Super Typhoon Rai/Odette Relief Fund is advancing community-led recovery. It means survivors like Pedro received critical resources to help their community rebuild after the typhoon.

This fund is no longer accepting donations, and this will be the last fund report of this kind from our team. We hope you’ll stay in touch! You can stay connected with our work through Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and our Learn Library, where we regularly share stories about the incredible impact of our powerful nonprofit community. If you haven’t already, subscribe to get periodic email updates from our team here. 

With gratitude,

Kyra + the GlobalGiving Team

Nonprofit Partners Receiving Grants:

Centre for Disaster Preparedness 

Green Releaf Initiative  

The Bicycle Scouts Project 

WONDER Foundation 

Tribes and Natures Defenders

Las Piñas Persons with Disability Federation

Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation

Ecosystems Work for Essential Benefits

Citizens’ Disaster Response Center Foundation

FundLife International 

OISCA International

Planet Water Foundation 

Kito Onlus 

American Chamber Foundation Philippines

Asia America Initiative

Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya

A-PAD KOREA

Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation

Global Peace Festival Foundation Philippines