Cordwallis Heathrow offers a helping hand
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ISUZU TRUCK (UK) dealer Cordwallis Heathrow provided free transport to help its local hospital to move donations bound for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
The dealership moved boxes from the Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Chertsey to the main aid DC in Acton, West London. A total of 225 cardboard boxes were filled with donations that included rice, canned goods, toiletries, used and new clothes, shoes, blankets, towels, bottled water and medical supplies, and loaded into an Isuzu Forward
7.5-tonne truck with a box body.
Contributions came from every department of the hospital. The Trust told CM that there are 246 Filipino nurses at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, so when the devastating news of Typhoon Haiyan emerged there was no shortage of volunteers.
It will take up to five weeks for the boxes to be shipped and distributed by the Philippine National Red Cross.
According to the UN, more than 11 5million people have been affected, with 130,074 homes destroyed.