Use selfies to help! #AfterYolanda: One Like, One Peso

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Use selfies to help! #AfterYolanda: One Like, One Peso
Turn your selfies into fundraising posts for victims of the super typhoon. Join Rappler's '#AfterYolanda: One Like, One Peso' campaign November 7-9

MANILA, Philippines – Selfies receive a lot of flak for being displays of vanity. We’re going to turn that around. 

On Friday, November 7, Rappler will launch “#AfterYolanda: One Like, One Peso” – a campaign to make netizens pledge donations for the victims of the super typhoon based on friends’ responses to their selfies on social media.

Exactly a year ago on November 8, Super Typhoon Yolanda (international code: Haiyan) made several landfalls in central Philippines. It cost communities billions of pesos worth of damage, and international humanitarian groups say it may take up to 5 years more for these communities to be really recover.

So how can your selfies help families in those communities? Here: 

1. Upload a photo of yourself on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter holding up a sign with #AfterYolanda and rplr.co/AfterYolanda.

2. State your pledge! We recommend pledging one peso for every Like or Favorite you receive. You can choose to assign a higher amount for every Like or Favorite.

3. Tag 3 friends whom you want to “challenge” into making a pledge as well.

4. The pledging will continue until midnight of Sunday, November 9, 2014. You have until then to gather as many likes as you can.

5. Donate to your Yolanda charity of choice the amount equivalent to the number of Like and Favorite you have garnered. 

Don’t know where to donate? Here are some organizations and projects to choose from:

FINALLY, POWER. A boy looks up at a lightbulb powered by a solar panel installed in his home in Tanauan, Leyte. Photo by Nim Gonzales

1. Project EnKindle is a volunteer group that installs solar panels in devastated baranggays and villages. Your donations will help provide power systems for homes of survivors.

Account name : SCTan Foundation, Inc. – Project Enkindle
Bank: Asia United Bank – Wack Wack Branch
Account number: 075-01-0000360

"The concept was simple: buy a shirt for P500, you donate 3 white school shirts for the kids. If you didn't want to keep the shirt, you could donate it to the teacher."

2. #Project110813 is a non-profit organization started by Rupert Ambil, Rappler’s head for video systems and operations. The organization provides shirts for schoolchildren in Yolanda-ravaged communities.

Account name: Ruperto Ambil II
Philippine National Bank: 486908500013
Banco De Oro: 5630050207

3. Yolanda ruined her school, help build Teresa’s dream. This is an advocacy initiated by Voltaire Tupaz, Rappler multimedia reporter and MovePH project manager. It hopes to help a public school in his hometown to rebuild classrooms.

You can send cash donations through the Philippine Red Cross (PRC).

Type of account: SAVINGS
BANCO DE ORO
Branch: Port Area, Manila
Peso: 00453-0018647
Dollar: 10-453-0039482
Swift Code: BNOR PH MM

You can also send donations through Cebuana Lhuillier Pawnshop nationwide.

For monitoring purposes, please email PRC proof of deposit or transaction at fundgeneration@redcross.org.ph and voltaire.tupaz@rappler.com.

Tweet or email the author for in-kind donations. He’ll link you up with the school principal.

 – Rappler.com

For Rappler’s full coverage of the 1st anniversary of Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), go to this page.

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