MANILA, Philippines - Government and non-government agencies have almost P8-million worth of relief goods to over a million people affected by torrential rains in the country, the Department of Social Work and Development (DSWD) said on Wednesday.
In a statement, DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman said that apart from the P3.7 million, around over P4 million worth of aid came from local governments and various non-government organizations.
Soliman added that the DSWD has bought 1,500 sacks of rice as additional food support for the affected families in the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) areas.
She said that repacking is on-going for the newly-purchased food items for the additional 100,000 stockpile of family packs at the DSWD's National Resource Operations Centers (NROC).
She reiterated her call for volunteers to help in the repacking of goods at NROC along NAIA Chapel Road in Pasay City with telephone number 852-8081.
Based on the 6 a.m. report of the agency's Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center, some 223,991 families or 1,060,094 individuals have been affected.
Of the figure, 29,041 families or 132,969 individuals are staying in evacuation centers in National Capital Region, Cordillera Administrative Region, Regions I, III, IV-A and B. NCR has the most number of evacuees with 20,524 families or 132, 969 persons staying in 200 evacuations centers.
Soliman said that DSWD personnel are deployed 24/7 at the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Operations Center at Office of the Civil Defense, Camp Emilio Aguinaldo, Quezon City to coordinate and respond to issues on the current disaster operations.