Where survivors can get relief goods

One week after Super Typhoon Yolanda battered the Visayas, relief goods started to trickle into remote areas ravaged by the typhoon’s monster winds and tsunami-like waves. At least 3,000 have died in the Visayas and thousands more are homeless and desperate for food.

 

To help in the distribution of aid, GMA News Online compiled a list of places where residents affected may get relief goods:

 

Relief Operations Hubs

 

 

Command Centers

 

 

Evacuation Centers
 

 

Communications Center

Estancia Municipal Hall, Iloilo

Source: DSWD

 

For drop-off points for relief goods or donations, click here. 
 

At least 20 municipalities and cities in Leyte and Samar have been supplied with relief goods, according to the Department Public Works and Highways.

 

The following have reportedly been reached by relief operations:
 

Leyte
 

Eastern Samar

 

 

Samar
 

 

Northern Samar

 

 

Target food packs

 

According to deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte, some 1.1 million food packs will be needed every week to make sure survivors have enough food.

 

She said repacking centers will need to produce 140,000 food packs a day for 275,000 in Leyte and Eastern Samar.

 

Valte noted that the government would also have to deal with logistics since it has to transport some 8.3 million tons of food pack weekly.

 

Out of 40 municipalities of Leyte, 30 towns have so far been reached by relief goods, while in Eastern Samar, only eight out of the 24 municipalities have been reached, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said in a separate press briefing on Friday.

 

He explained that the prepositioned food brigades stationed in the hard-hit areas were also washed out by the super typhoon.

He said, though, that more help is coming.

 

“Kung sa simula ay basu-baso lang ang naparating natin, sa sunod na araw ay nagiging tabu-tabo, sunod na araw ay balde-balde, timba-timba, hanggang parang hose na ‘yan na maaasahan ng mga kababayan natin,” Roxas said. — JDS, GMA News