Metro Detroiters Hold Onto Hope After Typhoon Ravages The Philippines
DETROIT (WWJ) Here in the metro area thousands of people with families in the Philippines are awaiting word on loved ones. Among them, Tasha Lord of Livonia who says she has several uncles and countless cousins who make their home in the storm ravaged area.
"Normally, it's a beautiful, wonderful, perfect place to live," Lord said, adding that she has family in the hardest-hit area.
Lord says she has finally received word, after hours of calling, that her aunts and uncle are OK -- but in desperate need of food and clean water. She says this is what she's been worried about -- not being able to reach people who desperately need help.
Lord says she plans to donate to the relief efforts for the Philippines.
The scenes of devastation have been hard on local Filipinos like Salvation Army Major Abelien Alip.
"I'm from the island, so that's why ... I cannot sleep, I have a sleepless night," she said.
The director of the Filipino Fellowship for the Salvation Army, Major Romeo Alip, said the hardest hit have lost nearly everything.
"They lost their main supply road, mango trees, coconut trees fell down, chickens ... so they don't have clothes, they don't have food, they don't have water," he said.
The Eastern Michigan Division of the Salvation Army in collecting for the aid effort. Donate HERE. A special meeting of local Filipinos will be held Separately,
