{"id":85577,"date":"2017-01-17T18:15:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T23:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85577"},"modified":"2017-01-17T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:46:31","slug":"aid-prayers-sought-for-flood-victims-in-cdo-other-affected-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/17\/aid-prayers-sought-for-flood-victims-in-cdo-other-affected-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Aid, prayers sought for flood-victims in CDO, other affected areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85578\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16003070_1266487596762778_9193682336526188267_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85578\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16003070_1266487596762778_9193682336526188267_n.jpg\" alt=\"Additional aid and prayers are needed for flood-victims in Cagayan de Oro City and other areas in Visayas and Mindanao, Senate Pres. Aquilino \u201cKoko\u201d Pimentel III said on Tuesday seeking cooperation from public (Pictured). (Photo: Koko Pimentel\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16003070_1266487596762778_9193682336526188267_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16003070_1266487596762778_9193682336526188267_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16003070_1266487596762778_9193682336526188267_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Additional aid and prayers are needed for flood-victims in Cagayan de Oro City and other areas in Visayas and Mindanao, Senate Pres. Aquilino \u201cKoko\u201d Pimentel III said on Tuesday seeking cooperation from public (Pictured). (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AttyKoko\">Koko Pimentel\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013Additional aid and prayers are needed for flood-victims in Cagayan de Oro City and other areas in Visayas and Mindanao, Senate Pres. Aquilino \u201cKoko\u201d Pimentel III said on Tuesday seeking cooperation from public.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel, who hails from Cagayan de Oro City, said that his office is currently doings its best to help the victims to complement government efforts.<\/p>\n<p>His office has so far launched a relief drive, called &#8220;TabangCDO&#8221;, which would help flood victims. Despite the name of the operation, Pimentel assured that the help will not be limited to his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us remember that flood victims are not limited to CDO. We should ensure that we can help everyone to the best of our abilities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, relief boxes are being put up in the Senate, at the PDP Laban headquarters in Pasay, and at Duterte&#8217;s Kitchen in Cubao, for donations.<\/p>\n<p>Cagayan de Oro City was recently declared under a state of calamity due to the floods that devastated the city.<\/p>\n<p>The floods were brought about by prolonged heavy rains due to the combined effect of the tail-end of the cold front and a low pressure area.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of the two weather phenomena has caused floods in various areas in Visayas and Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>PAGASA earlier said that more rains can be expected in the following 24 hours, and issued flood advisories for Regions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Additional aid and prayers are needed for flood-victims in Cagayan de Oro City and other areas in Visayas and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[13787,13678,5251],"class_list":["post-85577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-additional-aid-and-prayers","tag-aquilino-koko-pimentel-iii","tag-cagayan-de-oro-city","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}