President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. arrived in Albay together with United Arab Emirates Ambassador Mohamed Obaid and went straight to the evacuation center at Guinobatan Community College. READ:
The UAE has donated some 55 tons of relief goods, with packs containing Basmati, tea, and flour coming from India; canned tuna from Thailand; dates from Saudi Arabia; cooking oil, pasta, sugar, milk, tomato paste, powdered milk, and beans.
Under the program, there will be one representative per family who can work and earn P365 per day for 30 days. “Afterwards, even if they have already returned to their homes, we can still help them in their livelihood,” Campita said.In a speech at Albay Astrodome, the president said he would order the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority to send 80 more water filtration machines for the evacuees, and the Department of Health to closely monitor their condition.
“I also want to help because I know how it feels to be in an evacuation center. [Once] there was a typhoon that hit us and we had no food and water inside the evacuation centers,” Cambusa said.Hugo Buen, chief of the Tabaco City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, said some of the evacuated families continue to weave abaca products and brought their sari-sari store items to sell inside the evacuation centers.
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