Filipinos abroad seek news, rally aid after Haiyan
Filipinos abroad seek news, rally aid after Haiyan
HONG KONG (AP) — They gather in California churches, in Hong Kong shopping malls, at prayer vigils in Bahrain and on hastily launched Facebook pages. Philippine overseas workers, cut off from home after a super-typhoon killed thousands, are coming together to pray, swap information and launch aid drives. Above all, many of the more than 10.5 million Filipinos abroad – some 10 percent of the country’s population – are desperately dialing phone numbers that don’t answer in the typhoon zone, where aid is still only slowly trickling in and communications have been largely blown away.