WFP helps government in relief efforts

WFP HELPS PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT REACH REMOTE AREAS AFFECTED BY TROPICAL STORM WASHI

Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Philippine Government are extending the emergency response to Tropical Storm Washi to focus on remote, cut-off areas around Iligan City.

Working closely with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and with airlift support from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, WFP has already supplied emergency food assistance to almost 3,300 people stranded in Mungulong, outside Iligan City.

Plans are now underway to airlift food rations to other isolated communities around Iligan City such as Panoroganan where almost a thousand people are in need, and Mainit, where another 1,350 people require assistance.

WFP supports the Government of the Philippines Response to Sendong-affected communities

WFP ambassador KC Conception offering help to Sendong victims

Tropical Storm Washi (locally known as “Sendong”) which hit Northern Mindanao over the weekend, caused massive flooding, flashfloods and landslides, resulting in the death of over 1,000 people. Some 285,000 people have been displaced, many of whom are taking refuge with relatives or in makeshift structures. 

The World Food Programme (WFP) is responding to the Philippine Government’s request for international support and is mobilizing to assist 220,000 of the most vulnerble persons, many of whom have limited access to nutritious food and clean drinking water.  

Augmenting government’s relief efforts,  WFP assistance, at the initial phase of the response, focuses on providing fortified ready-to-eat foods as well as logistics support to the Philippine government and  humanitarian agencies.

Make things happen, we  should do our part in helping and making this Christmas more bearable for them.

Photo credit: WFP/John Javellana/Philippines

**Press release from WFP.

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