{"id":1016,"date":"2013-11-12T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opengis.ch\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:05:41","slug":"help-coron-after-typhoon-hayan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opengis.ch\/fr\/2013\/11\/12\/help-coron-after-typhoon-hayan\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Coron after Typhoon Hayan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t use the donate button on the right, use the button at the bottom<\/em>
\nHi all, as some of you know, I’m in the Philippines right now, on a WorldBank mission to help teach an open source planning, preparedness and response tool (inaSAFE<\/a>) to locals.
\nI’m in Manila where all is good. Hayan didn’t hit here and while it was hitting hard on the central and southern Philippines, I was safely in the north thanks to Dirk Fahrenbach (in CC) which told me not to head south to go diving (I hadn’t checked the weather forecast 10 days ago yet).
\nUnlike some other dive operators (not all of them, but he was the first to warn me and has actively been reaching out) which told me yes, no problem come dive to Coron<\/a> the weekend, Dirk openly warned me not to go there when the typhoon path and strength were still uncertain.
\nI don’t know Dirk personally, and he didn’t ask me to do this (this is just one way I try to help), but I’m convinced that he is a very good soul and that if you can, you should consider sending some money to help the people there rebuild their homes and lives.
\nI’m sure you all have seen pictures in the media to realize the extent<\/a> of the catastrophe and need no further motivation.
\nBelow I forward you the support email send out by Dirk which includes details on how to transfer money directly to him via his German and Filipino bank account.
\nIf you don’t want to do an international wire transfer, I setup a Paypal donate button in my account on which you can simply and safely donate using various credit cards. I will then then transfer all the money to him together with my donation.
\nto donate via paypal, please use ONLY<\/strong> this button, the one on the sidebar is for my opensource GIS work:<\/p>\n

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I really, hope you can help even a small gesture can do a lot.
\nciao
\nMarco Bernasocchi<\/p>\n

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