Cherry Hill Council 6173 at 2001 N. Springdale Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 US - Tropical Storm Ketsana causes worst Philippines flooding in 40 years
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Tropical Storm Ketsana causes worst Philippines
flooding in 40 years
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The Knights of Columbus Supreme Council has moved quickly to provide aid to the Philippines in the wake of the worst flooding in more than 40 years. Tropical Storm Ketsana (known locally as Typhoon Ondoy) dropped 16 inches of rain in just 9 hours, leaving some areas of Manila under 20 feet of water. It was as much rain as the city normally gets all month.
There are more than 250,000 members of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines, and fully half - 126,000 - live on the island Luzon, which was hardest hit.
The Supreme Council immediately sent US $50,000 in aid to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), which is coordinating Catholic relief efforts.
Supreme Knight Carl Anderson encouraged all state jurisdictions to provide contributions as well. They should be sent to the Supreme Council, where they will be forwarded to the CBCP.
Individual Knights can make contributions using an online link to United in Charity. All donations received from now until October 31, 2009 will be sent to Philippine flood relief.
News about the disaster and efforts to help those affected by it will be updated periodically on a special page on the Supreme Council web site.
Read a very personal account written by the coordinator of the Order's Fathers for Good initiative, Brian Caulfield, whose wife's family was forced to the roof of their house to escape the flood waters
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