TACLOBAN CITY, Dec.
20 -- The Department of Social Welfare
and Development-Region 8 office here will no longer accept damage reports from
local government units affected by Tropical Storm “Urduja”.
DSWD disaster
response and management unit head Pauline Nadera said they had set December 20
as deadline for the submission of damage reports.
The damage report
will serve as a basis for the agency to find out how much is needed to meet the
requirements of local governments as it moves on to the second round of relief
distribution.
“Our assistance is
really dependent on the reports of local government units. We need to know how
much budget is needed,” Nadera said.
Nadera said that for
the first round, the DSWD distributed food packs to all families in storm-hit
areas.
The submitted local
damage report will be used as basis as to how many families are qualified for
the second round of food assistance from the government.
Aside from relief
distribution, the DSWD is also preparing to carry out the early recovery and
rehabilitation phase.
Before Urduja’s
devastation, DSWD had 98,728 family food packs.
As of December 19,
DSWD has released 65,973 family food packs, 127,678 blankets, 46,749 hygiene
kits for storm-hit provinces.
The regional office
initially shipped 2,700 family food packs to Biliran. Logistical hurdle is a
challenge after flood waters cut off bridges connecting Biliran to Leyte
province.
The DSWD Eastern
Visayas assistance is on top of 15,000 family food packs from the agency’s
regional office in Central Visayas.
The Regional Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management Council said the storm had displaced 52,428
families in Eastern Visayas region. (RTA/PNA)
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