Discussion Thread

In light of the recent Typhoon in the Philippines I thought I'd start this thread to discuss whats happening and were to donate.

Post updates, articles, along with recommended charities in the comments and I'll add it to the list.

Can all mods sticky this thread in their subs or sidebar for visibility

Please retweet this to help /r/Philippines

Subreddit Fundraisers

• Official /r/Philippines thread

• [/r/WorldNews DWB fundraiser] (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1qgyi1/rworldnews_fundraising_campaign_for_typhoon/)

• /r/AskReddit Relief Drive

• /r/Atheism Annual DWB Drive

• [/r/CircleJerk Fundraiser] (http://www.reddit.com/r/circlejerk/comments/1qd40q/do_you_have_too_much_money_give_some_of_it_to/)

• /r/BreakingBad Fundraiser

If you come across any subreddit fundraisers let me know and I'll add them here

Updates

• MSF UK Updates

• DWB USA Updates

• MSF AMA with Arjan Hehenkamp

• Government of Philippines Official updates

• ReliefWeb Action Plan

• Typhoon Haiyan latest: News Feed - Telegraph

• Interview with Aid worker

• Philippines typhoon: teams reach hardest hit areas

• Typhoon Haiyan - MSF sends aid experts and tonnes of supplies

• UNICEF Emergency Coordinator AMA

• Typhoon Haiyan: desperate survivors and destruction in flattened city - Guardian

• Tormented typhoon victims scour for food - rappler

• Typhoon Haiyan: Thousands feared dead in Philippines - BBC News

Where to donate

Before you choose where to donate to please read this article about why you should be careful which charity you donate to

Also read this article explaining why money is the only thing that should be donated

Make sure you use a charity evaluator like GiveWell before you give! :)

You can donate to MSF/DWB using the regional websites below:

• MSF/DWB GiveWell review

• Doctors Without Borders is rated as 3/4 stars by Charity Navigator, with a financial score of 53.18/70 and an accountability and transparency score of 63.00/70

• All

• United Kingdom

• USA

• Canada (Good Guy Canada is doubling all donations)

• Mexico

• France

Other charities you can donate to

• Android App for Haiyan Relief by /u/ybinstock

• List of charities by rappler

• List of charities by NBC

• List of charities by CNN

• Humanist Charities suggested by /u/openmindedskeptic

• Boot On The Ground - suggested by /u/Nickelback_is_boss

• GlobalDirt - suggested by /u/ugh__blah

• ShelterBox - suggested by /u/CaptchaLiterate

• UMCOR - suggested by /u/Methodicalist

• ABS CBN Foundation - suggested by /u/SteelersBnGG

• UNICEF

• UNICEF fundraiser by /u/bluesilva

• Global Giving

• Mercy Corps

• Direct Relief

• International Federation of Red Cross

Lastly I want to thank all the amazing mods and subs that are helping us in our reddit-wide appeal. Your help is truly invaluable guys.

• /r/AdviceAnimals

• /r/Technology

• /r/EarthPorn

• /r/Humanism

• /r/Funny

• /r/WTF

• /r/Globalhealth

• /u/kirbyrules for donating $200 worth of advertising dollars.

Travelling to Gaza

Hey y'all

I'm an incoming FY1 Doctor and seeing the genocide unravelling in Gaza these past few months has broken my heart. I am hoping (if there is anything left there to help) I can go to Gaza this summer to give basic medical/humanitarian aid. I am doing all I can here but my conscience won't let me just sit on the sidelines.

I have carefully considered this choice, and seeing how many of our British and Palestinian medic colleagues(and thousands of innocents alongside them) have been killed there has galvanised me.

Does anyone here know of, or have experience in travel to Gaza? I understand the Egyptian side via the Rafah Crossing if difficult but miles better than attempting to enter via Israel.

Can anyone recommend any aid/medical organisations that can assist in getting there, if not now then hopefully when this slaughter finishes? (I read up on MSF but it seems they don't really take anyone below ST3, and while I understand why, I simply can't sit here and do nothing, I have the medical skills necessary to render basic aid and if not that, then I'm happy to help distribute/clean/translate etc. I also know MSF generally doesn't send you where you pick).

I am fluent in Arabic and French and I have experience in "3rd world" health care systems from elective placements.

If anyone here has worked/volunteered in Gaza recently, or knows anyone who has, I would greatly appreciate your input.

Thank you very much!

How would a US ER nurse get a spot to volunteer in Gaza? I’ve been looking all over the website and can’t find any information. Is this even a possibility?

OCTOBER 4, 2015 — Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières issued the following statement today from Christopher Stokes, MSF General Director, on the bombing of MSF's hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan:

“Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, MSF demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be conducted by an independent international body. Relying only on an internal investigation by a party to the conflict would be wholly insufficient. Not a single member of our staff reported any fighting inside the MSF hospital compound prior to the U.S. airstrike on Saturday morning. The hospital was full of MSF staff, patients and their caretakers. It is 12 MSF staff members and ten patients, including three children, who were killed in the attack. We reiterate that the main hospital building, where medical personnel were caring for patients, was repeatedly and very precisely hit during each aerial raid, while the rest of the compound was left mostly untouched. We condemn this attack, which constitutes a grave violation of International Humanitarian Law.”

The discussion will be centered around the current situation in the Philippines but as any other AMA you can ask ANYTHING! We hope you can join the event at /r/iama, help us spread the word!

In case you are curious (and we hope you are) we leave you here a brief bio of Arjan that was passed to us by his team so you get just a bit more curious and ask more questions to him:

In 1992, Arjan Hehenkamp left for his first mission for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). His first mission was in Somalia where he worked as a logistician. This was quickly followed by another two missions: South Sudan and Afghanistan. In 1995 he joined MSF’s Emergency Team; the team responsible for starting up emergency relief projects in conflict or disaster areas in crisis.

For the Emergency Team, Arjan worked in Bosnia, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Croatia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Somalia and Afghanistan.

In MSF’s head quarters, Amsterdam, Arjan worked as an Operational Advisor for a year before relocating to Nairobi, Kenya as the Head of Mission for South Sudan. Returning to Amsterdam in 2004, he spent five years as the Director of Operations, and as of June 2011, Arjan Hehenkamp became General Director of MSF Holland.

I have made a new account to make sure I stay anonimous, since I don't even know what the social media policy is, but after reading this sub for a while, and being in process for quite some time, I am happy to say that I am now a future field worker! :D I am really excited and also a bit nervous, to be honest, but I guess that is normal. Looking forward to onboarding next month and to start the process of finding out where I could be a good fit. I live in southern Europe, BTW, and am basically open to go anywhere they want to send me.