Tag: typhoon yolanda

Gov’t looking to replenish People’s Survival Fund for climate adaptation projects

(Eagle News)–The Philippines is looking to replenish the People’s Survival Fund, intended for climate adaptation projects, with the help of various donors and multilateral financing institutions, the Department of Finance said. According to Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno, among the multilateral financing institutions that could aid countries, including the Philippines, are the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which provided the country assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. He added there are also available donors through multilateral development banks […]

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President Duterte: “We were ignorant” when typhoon Yolanda hit

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said “we were ignorant” when typhoon Yolanda hit in November 2013. Duterte made the statement during the launch of the first-ever humanitarian mission ship, MV Amazing Grace. “I was really appalled that despite the fact that the warning came to us early, (that there was the) most powerful typhoon so far in the century, many of our countrymen took it lightly,” he noted. “We were ignorant when the typhoon hit,” Duterte, […]

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Villar: Resettlement sites of Yolanda victims now with water

MANILA, Jan. 5 – In line with President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive to provide victims of Typhoon Yolanda a conducive and permanent resettlement area, Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar said that water tanks and jetmatic pumps have been installed in all resettlement sites of Yolanda victims. “As promised, all resettlement sites are now provided with water. The Tacloban North Resettlement Site is now equipped with 67 units of 5 cubic meter and […]

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Turnover of Japan-Funded Farm inputs to farmers and fishers of Typhoon Yolanda Affected Areas

GUIUAN, EASTERN SAMAR – In simple rites held on September 24, 2015, Embassy of Japan’s First Secretary Kenji Terada, JICA’s Senior Representative Yuko Tanaka together with Guiuan SB of Committee on Agriculture Cornelio Sison, Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries Executive Director Ariel T. Cayanan, and around 500 beneficiaries, led the turnover ceremony for the “AKBay – Agrikultura: Kaagapay ng Bayang Pinoy (Agriculture: A Partner in Philippine Progress) Program Phase II” for Typhoon Yolanda-Affected Areas under […]

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Joint Czech-Israeli cooperation to benefit the Philippines

MANILA – IsraAID, a humanitarian Israeli non-government organization working in the Philippines since super typhoon Yolanda, received a special grant from the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the auspices of the Czech Embassy and facilitation of the Israel Embassy. “IsraAID Philippines is grateful for the financial assistance of the Embassy of the Czech Republic to the Philippines, for our Food Security and Agricultural Livelihood Program established after Yolanda. Thanks to this generous donation, IsraAID Philippines will continue to support […]

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Japan Provides Funding for the Construction of Classroom Building for Calintaan Central Elementary School in Calintaan, Occidental Mindoro

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO – First Secretary and Labour Attaché Hiroyuki Enoki attended the turnover ceremony last July 27, 2015 for “The Project for the Reconstruction of Six Classroom Building for Calintaan Central Elementary School” in Municipality of Calintaan, Occidental Mindoro. This is part of the Japan Official Development Assistance (ODA) under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP). The ceremony was attended by Ms. Lily Estoya, Municipal Mayor of Calintaan, Mr. Ferdinand J. Gotoy, District […]

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Filipinos awarded by Queen Elizabeth II for work on Typhoon Yolanda

MANILA – Two Filipino staff members of the Consular Section at the British Embassy Manila were recently honoured by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for their exemplary work in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda (International Name: Haiyan). Vice Consul Victoria Buenaventura and Pro-Consul Joanna Teh have been awarded an MBE, conferring them as Members of the Order of the British Empire for their exemplary service to the British community and to the victims of Typhoon Yolanda. […]

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EU supports climate change adaptation in disaster-stricken Samar

SAMAR – As part of their continued commitment,  the European Union and the Philippines Red Cross will officially hand over 2,000 temporary core shelters to families affected by Typhoon Yolanda in Samar today, 22 April. Another 1,000 families were given shelter repair assistance. In 2013, 22 million people worldwide were displaced by natural disasters – three times as many as war refugees. 4.1 million of them were Filipinos affected by typhoon Yolanda. The number of […]

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Pag-Ibig aims to aid victims of Typhoon Yolanda

CEBU, (Eagle News) — On April 10, 2015 at 11-4 pm, in the city of Santa Fe on the island of Bantayan Cebu, Pag-Ibig conducted simultaneous orientations of a housing rehabilitation/reconstruction loan program: one at the Municipal Office and the other at the Sports Complex. This loan program orientation, which is aimed at victims of last year’s Typhoon Yolanda, was led by Pag-Ibig housing officers of Cebu. The orientation seminar was attended by the department […]

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TURNOVER OF JAPAN-FUNDED EMERGENCY VEHICLES FOR TYPHOON YOLANDA AFFECTED AREAS

The government of Japan turned over emergency vehicles (two pumper trcks) to the Government of the Philippines at two ceremonies held on April 8, 2015 in the municipality of Hinoba-an and in the city of Sipalay in the Province of Negros Occidental for the Japan-funded Emergency Vehicles for Typhoon Yolanda Affected Areas under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP). The two ceremonies were attended by third secretary of the Embassy of Japan, […]

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TURNOVER OF JAPAN-FUNDED SUBMERSIBLE FISH CAGES AND PROVINCIAL HEALTH OFFICE FOR TYPHOON YOLANDA AFFECTED AREAS

The Government of Japan turned over the submersible fish cages and reconstructed provincial health office to the Government of the Philippines in ceremonies held on March 24, 2015 in Municipalities of Basey, Samar and Palo, Leyte in relation to the Japan-funded Quick Impact Projects under Urgent Development Study on the Project on Rehabilitation and Recovery from Typhoon Yolanda, the total cost of which is 1 billion yen.  The ceremony was attended by Mr. Hiroyuki Uchida, […]

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A “haven” for Yolanda survivors a year after World-Wide Walk

BARELY a year after the record-breaking “World Wide Walk”, the resettlement site for the survivors of Typhoon Yolanda is inaugurated. The EVM Self-Sustainable Resettlement Community was inaugurated on January 23, 2015, just 10 months after the groundbreaking at the site in Bgy. Langit, Alangalang, Leyte which was led by the Iglesia Ni Cristo Executive Minister Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo.  The resettlement site was constructed with the help of the funds raised during the charity walk. […]

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