Red Cross receives P12M in assistance from Qatar

By Javier Joe Ismael

Dec 06, 2020 12:09 am

SEN. Richard Gordon, Philippine Red Cross (PRC) chairman and chief executive officer, said the PRC received close to P12-million worth of food and nonfood relief items, equipment and rescue boats from the Qatar Red Crescent Society for its relief and rehabilitation operations for the recent typhoons that devastated the country, such as “Rolly” and “Ulysses”.

RED-LETTER DAYSen. Richard Gordon (second from left), also the chairman and chief executive officer of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), receives the more than $238,000 worth of food and nonfood items donated by the Qatar Red Crescent Society from Qatari Ambassador Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Malki and Abdelmounaim Mhindate, Qatar Red Crescent Society head of mission (third and fourth from left, respectively) during a turnover ceremony at the PRC national headquarters in Mandaluyong City on Dec. 4, 2020. The donated items would be handed over to the survivors of Typhoon ‘Ulysses’ (international name: ‘Vamco’). CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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