BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN–The Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Wednesday to donate $45,000 to help the Philippines restore cultural heritage sites in the central Visayas that have been damaged in last month’s earthquake and Typhoon Haiyan two weeks ago.
The unanimous agreement to support the restoration work with financial resources from the ASEAN Cultural Fund came during the Forty-Eighth Meeting of the ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information.
The Philippines was requested to draw up an inventory of damaged cultural sites next month.
The meeting of the Committee opened earlier Wednesday with delegates observing a minute’s silence for the victims of the typhoon, which has claimed thousands of lives since devastating the Central Visayas region two weeks ago.
Among the buildings damaged in Typhoon Haiyanwas the Leyte Provincial Capitol building, a neoclassical edifice that briefly served as the seat of the Philippine government at the end of the Second World War.
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Thank you for your help to my fellow filipinos.
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