San Francisco, Calif., Jul 14, 2012 / 12:00 pm
Catholic Relief Services needs help funding temporary shelters for 1,500 Filipino families who lost their homes in Tropical Storm Washi, which struck Mindanao last Dec. 16-17, CRS' Philippines country representative Joe Curry told Catholic San Francisco.
He said nearly 3,000 people displaced by the storm are still living in camps and in public buildings.
CRS has played a major part in aid relief to storm victims and is the only aid organization providing temporary shelters, said Curry, who was in the Bay Area June 18.
Catholics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco have been among the most generous contributors to the typhoon relief effort, he said. In the initial response, donations from the archdiocese were $51,000 out of $143,000 from the West Coast and $250,000 in total U.S. contributions.