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People in the Philippines are still dying from hungry
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1M ‘Pablo’ victims still need food aid
MANILA, Philippines–Nearly one million people remain in need of food assistance. Between 800,000 and one million people are in need of food assistance in the worst affected areas, of this number, some 238,000 persons have received family food packs in the severely affected provinces of Compostela Valley, Davao Oriental, Surigao del Sur and Agusan del Sur.
School feeding programs are also set to be launched in public schools in severely hit areas through the Department of Education. Agencies report funding constraints and are unable to expand their programs. The accurate number of affected homes also “remain difficult to ascertain” given conflicting reports from the field. There is a need to build and identify alternative displacement sites for families who are living in public schools.
So far, 1,067 persons were killed and 834 remained missing after Pablo hit, the typhoon affected 6.2 million people, with 13,490 still in evacuation centers while close to one million were forced to stay outside temporary shelters. And still need our help
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