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Residents use a makeshift raft to relocate children in this flooded section of Manila

Head of UN food programme pledges full support to storm survivors in the Philippines

21 October 2009
The head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today pledged the agency’s full support to the Government and people of the Philippines as they seek to deal with the effects of the violent storms that devastated parts of the country last month.
UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman with sixth-grade student Jaime de Venecia, Jr., a flood evacuee in Manila

UNICEF chief meets with storm and flood victims in the Philippines

9 October 2009
The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has met with victims of recent storms in the Philippines, witnessing the damage wrought by the typhoon and subsequent floods and hearing first-hand accounts of the devastation.
Survivors line up for water at a community wiped out by devastating floods by Ketsana in the Philippines capital Manila

UN appeals for $74 million to help flood victims in Philippines

6 October 2009
The United Nations today launched an appeal for $74 million to help 1 million flood-stricken people in the Philippines – which has been hit by massive back-to-back storms – for the next six months.
People wading through flood water from Typhoon Ondoy in the Phillipines capital Manila

Lack of drainage systems exacerbated impact of deadly typhoon in the Philippines – UN

30 September 2009
Poor drainage systems and garbage disposal problems aggravated the impact of a typhoon that struck the Philippines at the weekend and killed hundreds of people, the United Nations disaster prevention agency says as it stressed the need for governments to make greater investments before other catastrophes strike.
Ryan Leyva, 25, ponders the future with his children at an evacuation centre in the Philippines

UN speeds assistance to Filipino children hit by tropical storm as death count climbs

29 September 2009
As the rising death toll from the tropical storm that struck the Philippines over the weekend climbs to 240 people, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today announced it has rushed emergency relief supplies to the value of $143,000 to the affected children and their families.
Former Filipino President, Corazon Aquino

Ban saddened by death of Corazon Aquino, former Filipino President

1 August 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced his deep sadness today over the news of the passing of former Filipino President, Corazon Aquino, the first woman to lead her country.