Relief efforts have been stepped up in flood-hit areas in Region 3 (Central Luzon) to assist thousands of residents still reeling from the effects of typhoon EgayPH and the enhanced southwest monsoon or “habagat.”
Concerned government agencies such as the Department of Social Welfare and Development as well as local government units in the region have intensified the distribution of relief support and assistance to address the immediate needs of the affected families in the region.
DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian has earlier ordered the dispatch of at least 289,906 boxes of FFPs in the first two weeks of August as augmentation assistance to the LGUs in the Ilocos region, Cagayan Valley, Central Luzon, and Cordillera Autonomous Region. In Bulacan, Gov. Daniel Fernando, together with the personnel from the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office and Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, led on Tuesday, Aug. 1, the distribution of food packs to the flood-ravaged residents in Calumpit and Guiguinto towns.
Meanwhile, the provinces of Pampanga and Bulacan joined the list of LGUs placed under a state of calamity due to the massive destruction brought by the weather disturbances.
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