MMDA asks companies to donate tarps to Typhoon Yolanda victims

Here’s one good idea from the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA).

“The MMDA is asking billboard operators and outdoor advertising agencies to donate their used tarpaulins to typhoon-ravaged communities in Leyte and Samar so they could be used to build improvised shelters for thousands of families displaced Typhoon Yolanda,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.

In the aftermath of Typhoon Pablo last year, the MMDA sent a truckload of confiscated tarpaulins to New Bataan, Compostela Valley and Cateel, Davao Oriental. These were the resettlement sites of the people displaced by the typhoon.

For their post-Yolanda efforts, the MMDA has started to collect all billboard materials and tarpaulins it has confiscated at the height of its Baklas Billboard operations.

Photo from MorgueFile 




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