A nonprofit medical organization based in Japan is donating funds for a new building to be used by a doctors' group in the central Philippines that had its headquarters destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan last year.
Tomoko Iwamoto of the Association of Medical Doctors of Asia said the building will also serve as the Okayama-based donor group's emergency relief center in the Philippines, should the need ever arise.
The two-story structure in a prosperous area in Tacloban City is projected to cost ¥10 million and should be finished in five or six months. Tacloban was devastated by the typhoon on Nov. 8 last year, with the death toll reaching the thousands and wide swaths of the city destroyed.