Humanitarian aid for victims of Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan keeps pouring. A huge 30 million Kroners or approximately P210 million was raised by the Norwegian Public Broadcasting , a state-run public broadcasting network, during a more than an hour national telethon at the Nationaltheatret in Oslo, Norway.
Aired last Sunday at 8.15 p.m. Norwegian time, the live fund raising event was hosted Nadia Hasnaoui on NRK1 channel.Prominent Norwegian artists Anne Grete Preus, Odd Nordstoga and Ingebjørg Bratland, Morten Abel, Ole Paus, Martin Halla, Eva & the Heartmaker, Agnete Johnsen and the all-male Filipino choir Advent Ambassadors performed for the event dubbed as "Dugnad for Filippinene, De Trenger Deg Nå: Støttekonsert."
“Dugnad” is a Norwegian term which means unpaid, voluntary work and is very similar to the Filipino “bayanihan” which also means actions done voluntarily for the common good.
The solidarity concert urged viewers to send at least 200 Kroners or P1,400 donations through calls and sending SMS. "Let this (donation) be your Christmas gift. We already have all we need in this country," program host Nadia Hasnaoui appealed to viewers. Two Filipinos Seth Sanderod and Isabel Lahorra, whose families in Capiz and Leyte were severely affected by the typhoon, were given the opportunity to be interviewed during the event.
Proceeds of this event have benefited five Norwegian aid organizations: Red Cross Norway, UNICEF, Save the Children Norway, Norwegian Church Aid, and Streetlight, an orphanage in the Philippines. These aid organizations are currently building temporary shelters, hospitals and classrooms for victims of super typhoon Yolanda and are now doing relief operations in hardest hit areas in the central Philippines.
Prior to this aid, around P1.5 billion in humanitarian aid for relief operations and rehabilitation was already given by the Norwegian government to the Philippines.
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