Senator calls on residents to extend help to neighbors in Palau
By Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno
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TÃA, Guam (Pacific Daily News, Dec. 4, 2013) – In addition to rallying to help victims of Supertyphoon Haiyan in the Philippines, efforts also continue to aid the people of Kayangel, an island state in Palau that lost homes, schools, government offices and its clinic to the superstorm.
Motorists can give aid during a boot drive from 4 to 6 p.m. this Friday at the ITC intersection in Tamuning and Paseo Loop in Hagåtña, said Alex Kloulubak, chairman of the Kayangel Club of Guam.
"Everything was wiped out as far as homes, schools, government offices and the clinic," Kloulubak said.
No lives were lost because many of the island state's residents were evacuated to Palau's capital of Koror two days before Haiyan struck, Kloulubak said.
Palau President Tommy Remengesau, on a quick Guam stopover to a meeting in Saipan, mentioned that Palau's Haiyan...