Delivery company UPS has provided in-kind transportation for relief supplies to victims of Typhoon Odette, also known as Typhoon Rai, which has devasted many Filipino communities in Southern Philippines since mid-December. To date, UPS has flown seven flights from Clark to Cebu carrying over 40 tons of relief supplies.
Relief supplies include food packs, bottled drinking water, hygiene kits and other necessities that arrived at the UPS Hub in Manila and Clark. These donations were coordinated through the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF) and came from organizations including the Jollibee Group Foundation, One Meralco Foundation, PricewaterhouseCoopers and The Aboitiz Foundation. Responding to an urgent need for aid, Semiconductor and Electronics Industries in the Philippines Foundation, Inc. and Air21 likewise reached out to UPS to airlift their relief supplies donation to Cebu.
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