World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

The provincial government of Davao Oriental (Philippines) and the World Food Program (WFP) have started briefing farmers on the cash-for-work program, in an effort to cover initially 800 hectares of rice farms in Cateel, Baganga and Boston municipalities. Sharon Andrea Lumpias, cash and voucher officer of the WFP, said a farmer could work for 10 days, under the program, on a one-hectare rice farm and would get P226 per day or 75 percent of the authorized minimum daily wage set by the Regional Tripartite Wage Regulatory Board.

COMPOSTELA VALLEY -– WFP has committed help to the provincial government of Compostela Valley after the devastation caused by super typhoon Bopha.
 

A month after Typhoon Bopha hit the southern Philippines, up to 1 million people need food assistance and thousands of others could be displaced for a second time, the United Nations says. (..) "Overall the need (for food assistance) is for about 800,000 to a million people across several regions," said Dipayan Bhattacharyya, head of food security with the World Food Programme (WFP) in the Philippines.

ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre) Executive Director Said Faisal and ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management Head Adelina Kamal recently visited Davao City to handover 3,000 rice bags to the Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development. The AHA Center provided USD100,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to purchase the rice, which is part of ASEAN support to the Philippine Government’s Typhoon Bopha response. 

CATEEL, Davao Oriental — The provincial government here, in close coordination with the World Food Program have started on Wednesday the fourth round of massive distribution of relief goods in the three typhoon-ravaged towns of Boston, Cateel and Baganga this province.

Canada has provided more than P70 million (Cad$ 1.75million) as additional assistance to victims of typhoon ‘Pablo’ (Bopha) in the Philippines.

The Australian Government has increased its assistance to Php307 million (A$7.3 million) in response to the increasing humanitarian needs from Typhoon Pablo.

The Japanese government has provided an additional $4.2 million emergency grant aid to the Philippines for the victims of Typhoon Bopha.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Government of Japan will provide support to help thousands of small scale landholders in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao establish agribusinesses, as part of initiatives to bring peace and stability to the area through economic development.

WFP Philippines National Ambassador Against Hunger KC Concepcion recently visited families affected by Typhoon Bopha who are staying at the evacuation centers in the municipalities of Compostela and New Bataan in Compostela Valley province. During her visit, KC also distributed relief packs from the Department of Social Welfare and Development, which include complementary rations of WFP high-energy biscuits and iron-fortified rice. With her were DSWD XI Regional Director Priscilla Nidea-Razon and WFP Philippines Representative and Country Director Stephen Anderson.