Typhoon Carina, also known internationally as Typhoon Gaemi, recently intensified into a super typhoon, bringing widespread devastation to parts to Northern Luzon and Metro Manila, enhancing the southwest monsoon and leading to severe flooding and heavy rainfall. The typhoon forced thousands of residents to evacuate their homes and disrupted daily life across affected regions.
The last time Manila and surrounding provinces faced rains and flooding comparable to Typhoon Carina and the enhanced southwest monsoon was during Super Typhoon Rolly (international name: Goni) and Tropical Storm Ondoy (international name: Ketsana). Such extreme “once-in-a-decade” rains are becoming more common due to heating ocean waters caused by climate change. The burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) releases greenhouse gases, which contribute to global warming and result in warmer sea temperatures and altered atmospheric patterns. These changes foster the development of more powerful and destructive storms, posing greater risks to vulnerable communities.
Greenpeace is currently documenting the climate disaster and coordinating possible response and relief efforts, watch this space for daily updates. #ReliefPH
Donation Drives – Bataan
- Nukes Coal-Free Bataan – relief drive for residents affected by Super Typhoon Carina and an ongoing oil spill in the sea
Donation Drives – Bulacan
- Bulacan State University
- Bulacan Youth for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (BYDRRM) – get in touch via their social media page
Donation Drives – Rizal
- i_space Youth-oriented NGO
- Angat Taytay
Donation Drives – Multiple areas in Luzon
- UP CSWCD / PAMALAKAYA – support coastal communities and fisherfolk families along who have been flooded in Manila, Navotas, and Cavite
- For our Farmers PH, Inc. – accepting donations to help local farmers and fisherfolk who have been affected by Super Typhoon Carina
- Bahaghari – volunteers from the LGBTQIA+ community organizing relief drives for those affected by STY Carina
- Community Pantry PH – provision of warm meals for affected communities
- Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Sentral na Konseho ng Mag-aaral (PUP SKM)
- Conscious Planet Youth PH
- Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines (YACAP) – hot meals for communities in Commonwealth, Payatas, and Montalban
- Lingkod Katribu – donations for affected Moro and indigenous peoples’ communities
- Celebrity chef and Greenpeace supporter Chef Tatung seeking donations and volunteers to aid victims of Super Typhoon Carina
Donation Drives – Metro Manila
- More-Christian Peoples Alliance – provision of Halal food for affected Muslim communities
- Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) – Disaster Relief Operations for the typhoon-affected animals and their families in Marikina
More frequent and intense extreme weather like super typhoon Carina have taken away lives and livelihoods, left thousands of families without homes, and destroyed our natural resources. The biggest fossil fuel companies (oil, coal, and gas companies), who have contributed the most to the climate crisis, continue to rake in huge profits while our people and planet suffer.
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