Minnie Portales, the Director for Public Engagement with World Vision Philippines, explains World Vision’s relief response to Typhoon Haiyan. Her first person account urges those that are able to help the victims to act quickly. She explains that World Vision is providing emergency aid to 400,000 with a goal to reach 1 million people with aid. Typhoon Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, was an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone that devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, in early November 2013. It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on record, killing at least 6,166 people in that country alone.
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