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Typhoon Haiyan: How To Help

Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines coastal village of Capiz got some help Monday when a Filipino military helicopter brought some much-needed food.
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Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines coastal village of Capiz got some help Monday when a Filipino military helicopter brought some much-needed food.

The that it is "cooperating with the Philippines Typhoon Disaster Relief Fund established by , a U.S. nonprofit organization" to collect donations for victims of the .

How to donate: mGive with details about aid organizations working in the Philippines and how to text $10 donations via cellphones or make donations online. Also, the State Department says, you can simply "text AID to 80108 to give a $10 donation to the mGive Philippines Typhoon Disaster Relief Fund."

Other aid organizations are also collecting, of course. There's . ReliefWeb, a digital service of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Doctors Without Borders' .

As NPR's Kirk Siegler , Filipino expatriates in the U.S. are also "turning their worry and stress into action, pounding the pavement to raise money for typhoon victims."

Our latest post about the disaster .

Note: While the , in the Philippines it is known as Yolanda. , "the Philippines has its own naming system."

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