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Senator Loren Legarda of the Philippines, UNISDR champion on disaster risk reduction for Asia-Pacific

Disaster risk awareness key to preventing casualties, says UN ambassador

29 December 2011
Better disaster risk preparations may have helped avert casualties when tropical storm Washi slammed into the Philippines this month, a United Nations champion for disaster risk reduction said today.
A group of children displaced by floods, following the passage of tropical storm Washi, living in an evacuation centre in Iligan City, Philippines

Philippines: UN grant enables agencies to give help to storm survivors

28 December 2011
A $3 million allocation from the United Nations relief fund has enabled agencies to provide initial assistance to survivors of the tropical storm that devastated parts of the Philippines 11 days ago, as the death toll rose to nearly 1,250, the UN humanitarian office reported today.
A child rests inside one of the evacuation sites in Datu Piang, Maguindanao in the Philippines

Philippines: UN targets children’s needs in areas hit by deadly tropical storm

27 December 2011
As the death toll in the Philippines from the impact of tropical storm Washi passes 1,100, the United Nations continues to both rush aid to storm-affected areas and stress the need to focus renewed attention on the thousands of children hit by the disaster.
UNFPA is working to provide essential reproductive-health supplies to help more than 12,000 pregnant and lactating women in evacuation centres

Philippines: UN tackling maternal health issues in areas affected by tropical storm

23 December 2011
The needs of more than 12,000 pregnant and lactating women in areas affected by tropical storm Washi in southern Philippines are the main focus of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which said today it is mobilizing funds and supplies to provide medical services.
Tropical Storm Washi forced thousands of people out from their homes

Philippines: UN and partners appeal for additional $28 million to help storm victims

22 December 2011
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners are seeking an additional $28.6 million to what was already requested earlier this month to support victims of the Sendong tropical storm in southern Philippines.
Several UN agencies have boosted their relief efforts in the Philippines which was ravaged by a tropical storm known locally as Sendong

Top UN aid official calls for scaling up of humanitarian efforts in Philippines

21 December 2011
The United Nations relief chief called today on countries and international organizations to scale up humanitarian efforts in the Philippines, which was ravaged by a storm last weekend, leaving almost half a million people in need of assistance.
Residents of Mindanao, Philippines, survey damage caused by tropical storm Washi

Philippines: UN agencies boost relief effort for storm survivors as death toll rises

20 December 2011
United Nations agencies stepped up relief efforts in the Philippines today to help survivors of tropical storm Washi, which the country’s authorities say has killed nearly 1,000 people and left hundreds of thousands of residents of the island of Mindanao in need of humanitarian assistance.
A woman salvages belongings from her ruined village in Mindanao, Philippines, after Tropical Storm Washi struck on 16 December 2011

Philippines: UN officials mourn victims of storm tragedy

19 December 2011
United Nations officials today sent their sympathies to the people of the Philippines after a tropical storm slammed the south of the country at the weekend, causing devastating floods that left more than 500 people dead and hundreds of others missing.
Heavy rains in the Philippines in June 2011 left scores of homes like this one in Cortabato City, Mindanao, inundated with water

Philippines: UN relief official concerned over plight of displaced in Mindanao

23 November 2011
A senior United Nations relief official today voiced concern over the plight of hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their homes by conflict in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, saying that many are also enduring the effects of natural disasters, including floods.
Assistant Secretary-General Catherine Bragg.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

Senior UN relief official visits Philippines to review humanitarian needs

19 November 2011
The deputy United Nations emergency relief coordinator today embarked on a five-day mission to the Philippines to review humanitarian needs of people affected by conflict and natural disasters.