Padada, Davao del Sur
HOPE Caravan, the mobile calamity assistance mission of the Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc. (TYKFI), continued to distribute relief goods to victims of earthquakes in Mindanao.
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HOPE Caravan, the mobile calamity assistance mission of the Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc. (TYKFI), continued to distribute relief goods to victims of earthquakes in Mindanao.  Dr. Lucio C. Tan, Chairman and President of the Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc. (TYKFI) (left) hands over relief groceries for distribution to Taal eruption victims to Mayor Gerry Natanauan of Talisay, Batangas and Leynes Barangay Captain Bailon Caringal (extreme right and 2nd from right) at the HOPE CARAVAN relief packing center.  Talisay, Batangas A total of 1,728 families from various barangays in Batangas City, Lian, Nasugbu, and Talisay in Batangas received relief goods through the Foundation’s HOPE Caravan, with the help of its generous partners and benefactors, following the Taal Volcano’s unexpected eruption on January 12, 2020  Benguet is a landlocked province situated at the southern tip most of the Cordillera Region. Buguias is considered as the heart of Benguet, a third class municipality consisting of 14 barangays and is also considered as the vegetable producing capital of Benguet.
 Typhoon Ompong was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that hit northern Luzon and damaging millions-worth of properties in several regions.
With sustained winds of up to 285 km per hour, it was the strongest storm to hit Northern Luzon since 2010, and the strongest nationwide since typhoon Haiyan in 2013. It brought along swaying high-rises, broken windows, flash floods, and catastrophic landslides. Despite the fact that the devastation of typhoon Haiyan occurred only in recent memory, this typhoon brought over 100 heart-wrenching fatalities mainly due to landslides in Itogon, Benguet.  In the latter part of 2016, the Foundation noted that almost 1,000 families in Oriental Mindoro were reported to have been evacuated from their homes due to the tragic devastation left by Typhoon Nina. Realizing that many of those families have not received enough assistance to repair or rebuild their homes, the Foundation sought a few local government units of Calapan City to reach out to more than 100 families still needing housing assistance through the TYKFI HOPE Caravan project.
 Cabanatuan Beneficiaries FeedbacK “Maraming salamat sa tulong na bigay ng grupo, malaking tulong na ito para sa amin.”
—Mark Santos, Purok 10, Kap. Pepe, Cabanatuan City Damage to Property: House, all clothes and appliances damaged by roof-high flood waters  Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc. noted public weather reports that in terms of sheer strength and scope of destruction, Typhoon Lando was the worst storm to hit the Philippines in 2015. 
 Social responsibility should not end in a “one-time big time” event, that’s why the foundation ensures that there are follow up visits to its beneficiaries. In light of this, the Tan Yan Kee Foundation, Inc. (TYKFI), together with the members of the Lucio C. Tan Group of Companies—particularly Asia Brewery, Inc., distributed 4,032 cases (145,152 tetra packs) of milk (thru a donation by Green Spot Co. Ltd.- Thailand); and MacroAsia Corporation distributed 764 cases (22,920 pouches) of food items (thru a donation by Singapore Foods), to various public schools in Leyte. The beneficiaries included more than 30,000 pupils whose families were displaced by super typhoon “Yolanda”. The Foundation also distributed food items and clothing to pupils of Sulpa and Tagak Elementary Schools which are located as well in the Province of Leyte. The said items were collected in United States through the effort of Ms. Julie Tan, together with her two kids Kyle and Lucio III. 
 Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) was an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone that brought devastation to areas of Southeast Asia, particularly the southern part of the Philippines in early November.
Tacloban appeared to bear the brunt of the cyclone, which is recorded as the deadliest in the country with close to 6,000 fatalities in this city and its neighbouring areas. It is also the strongest storm recorded at landfall and unofficially the fourth strongest in terms of wind speed. |