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Volunteer for the Phillipines Disaster Response

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The LLU  is known as a global hub for all aspects of health. Our Public Health Disaster Assistance and Relief Team (PH DART) exists to respond to these types of disasters. Our team is now working with  ADRA  international to conduct a rapid needs assessment on water and sanitation, logistics, and shelter among other topics in select regions of the Philippines. I believe that we have the institutional responsibility to respond to disasters of this magnitude and we have devoted effort to a relevant response. We realize that there are now many ways to volunteer for the  present disaster  in the Philippines. Donations are the obvious choice, but the types of social media and crowdsourcing is now also evolving. Tweets and Facebook entries are now the most common type of crowdsourcing, but often not organized into any central repository that can be used by agents on the ground.  There are now new efforts towards "crowd-crafting" those first-person entries. That " crowdcraft

Best crowdsourcing for the Typhoon

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After a morning of searching, I see the the google crisis map as a good solution; there are many other crowdsourced maps that have popped up in the last week. Relief workers should have staff monitoring these for relevant entries to their area of concern. The google crisis map allows you to upload data or datasets by using a q uestionnaire available here . This is organized in Google's Crisis Response group. There is also a Typhoon Yolanda people finder that is very useful. The Philippines government crowdsourcing data and GIS data http://disaster.dswd.gov.ph/maps.php The Philippines government crowdsourced GIS data server http://disaster.dswd.gov.ph/maps.php The Google site obtains much of its data from ESRI here: http://fema-services2.esri.com/arcgis/rest/services/2013_Cyclone_Haiyan/Cyclone_Haiyan_Impact/MapServer/ The ESRI hosted crowdsourcing map http://giscorps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=cf6031322a334cc3bfe3f9a74f23b384 The o

Donate to Typhoon Haiyan without admin costs!

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The Water Charity  allows you to donate to the Typhoon Haiyan Relief effort: You can donate knowing that all of your donation is going towards the actual purchase of filters to provide drinking water. They already have partners on the ground who are distributing the filters. They are working with ADRA , Sawyer water filters and many other partners. Click here: