Play-to-Earn gaming guild Yield Guild Games (YGG) has raised funds to help the Philippine victims of Typhoon Odette, which hit the country in December. The guild raised a whopping $1.45 million for the relief operation, with almost $1 million already disseminated to the victims in need.
The money was used to buy the essentials and necessities, such as power generators, canned food, and medicines. The guild then gave the goods to the Philippine Army, Navy, and non-profit organizations to distribute them to the affected communities. At this time, there are still some crypto tokens left that have been donated to the cause, amounting to $458,000. However, they have yet to convert the amount to fiat currency, as stated by a YGG representative.
YGG Pilipinas, the Filipino division of the gaming guild, announced the relief operation after the super typhoon caused havoc in the country. They quickly raised $110,000 for the operation after a day, receiving a mixture of different tokens, including USDC, SLP, ETH, AXS, and WETH.
Getting close to the 6,000,000 peso ($110K) mark in crypto donations. We'll continue to raise funds all throughout the weekend while we find and assign key community leaders in each affected city. #OdettePH https://t.co/HgKjzw3h7v
— YGGPilipinas (@YGGPilipinas) December 17, 2021
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The relief operation was led by Luis Buenaventura, the country manager of YGG Pilipinas. Speaking with Cointelegraph, he explained that the Philippines holds the most YGG members, so Typhoon Odette hit quite close to home.
Buenaventura says they consider their community “as important to us as our core team.” Many members in that community either had to flee from their homes or have been living without water or electricity for over a month. Even YGG staff members were also affected by the typhoon.
Aside from the YGG community, many other communities in the Web3 space also participated in the initiative. Jeffrey “Jihoz” Zirlin, the co-founder of NFT P2E Axie Infinity, also donated a total of 1,000 AXS ($55,400).
Gabby Dizon, the co-founder of YGG, said their initiative shows how united and powerful the Web3 gaming community is. “This is our testimony that we are more than just a community of gamers.” On the other hand, DeFi Kingdoms (DFK) players also unanimously decided to donate $500,000 to the relief operation. At the same time, the play-to-earn game’s dev team also added an extra $250,000 to the donation.
