After providing them with emergency rescue, evacuation, medical services, among others, in October last year, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) returned to Aklan on January 19, to provide food items and jerry cans, or water containers, to families hit by typhoon “Paeng.”
PRC Chairman and CEO Richard J. Gordon said that the move of the PRC is to help the affected families get back on their feet.
“Ginagawa po ng inyong Red Cross ang lahat ng aming makakaya para tulungan ang ating mga kababayan nang pangmatagalan, hanggang sila ay makabawi mula sa mga pinsala ng sakuna, kagaya ng Paeng, na tumama sa ating bansa noong Oktubre [Your Red Cross is doing everything that we could to provide our countrymen long term help, until they can be able to recover with the damages brought about by Paeng that hit the country in October],” Gordon said.
Aklan was among the provinces severely affected by Paeng, which made landfall on October 29 2022, and inundated several parts of the country, causing landslide and displacement.
Five hundred families from Barangays Cortes, Guanko, and Oquendo in Balete municipality were the recipients of the latest humanitarian assistance given by the Red Cross to people affected by Paeng.
The PRC has provided the following humanitarian aid to people affected by Paeng in Aklan since October 2022: health promotion to 306 individuals, hygiene promotion to 282 persons, hygiene kits to 274 families, hot meals to 131 individuals, medicines to 100 persons, and psychological first aid to 15 children.
The foremost humanitarian organization in the country has responded to Paeng-affected communities across the country since October 28, 2022 by providing emergency rescue and evacuation, shelter strengthening kits, emergency medical services, health care information and supplies, hygiene promotion, water, clothes, slippers, psychological first aid, sleeping kits, hygiene kits, road clearing, flushing of debris, hot meals, food items and jerry cans.
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