• 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 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.
    • 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.
  • 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.
  • Red Cross water and sanitation specialists check that the treated water is safe for drinking.
  • 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.

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