Philippines: making festive period better for Typhoon victims

27-12-2012 Photo gallery

This is no ordinary holiday season for Filipinos in Eastern Mindanao after a devastating typhoon swept through communities earlier this month. Since then, the ICRC and Philippine Red Cross (PRC) staff have not stopped bringing assistance to tens of thousands of families in the worst-hit region, meeting the most urgent needs, and will continue this effort well into the New Year.

- Residents participate in preparation for a distribution of food and relief goods conducted by ICRC and Philippine Red Cross staff in Campawan, Baganga municipality, an area severely damaged by the typhoon.
  © ICRC / C. Lee / v-p-ph-e-00611
- Food and relief items, especially tarpaulins needed for emergency shelter, were distributed to families in Barangay San Miguel, Cateel municipality. Such distributions are being conducted on an ongoing basis to ensure that the tens of thousands of families in the worst-hit areas will benefit from these basic household items.
  © ICRC / H. Makabe / v-p-ph-e-00616
- In the aftermath of the typhoon, many residents have been making emergency repairs to their houses, piecing together what was left of their homes using debris and materials like tarpaulins, provided by the ICRC. With rain frequently falling in the area worst hit by the storm, the Red Cross is distributing relief to these communities on an ongoing basis.
  © ICRC / J. Metzker / v-p-ph-e-00614
- After their home was destroyed by typhoon Bopha, a family in Cateel municipality begins to build a new house and uses an ICRC-donated tarpaulin to shelter them from rain and sun during the construction.
  © ICRC / C. Lee / v-p-ph-e-00613
- ICRC vehicles crossing a river to reach a typhoon-affected community further away from the main road. The Red Cross is working to ensure that all villages in the worst-affected areas receive relief items.
  © ICRC / H. Makabe / v-p-ph-e-00620
- To provide drinking water in areas where the typhoon damaged the local water supply or system, joint ICRC/Philippine Red Cross teams have set up emergency measures such as assembling this water purification unit by a stream.
  © ICRC / J. Metzker / v-p-ph-e-00615
- A joint ICRC/Philippine Red Cross team of water and sanitation specialists work amidst the debris left from typhoon to set up a water treatment unit. This will provide drinking water for residents in Baganga municipality.
  © ICRC / v-p-ph-e-00619
- Philippine Red Cross and ICRC water and sanitation specialists have installed a water bladder to store clean, purified drinking water, to be delivered to residents of hard-hit Baganga municipality.
  © ICRC / H. Makabe / v-p-ph-e-00617
- Red Cross water and sanitation specialists check that the treated water is safe for drinking.
  © ICRC / H. Makabe / v-p-ph-e-00612
- Residents of Cateel municipality have better access to drinking water after the ICRC and PRC set up emergency water bladders and tap stands in strategic locations.
  © ICRC / H. Makabe / v-p-ph-e-00618

Philippines: making festive period better for Typhoon victims

27-12-2012 Photo gallery

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