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WFP response to Mindanao floods 1

On the evening of Friday, December 16, Tropical Storm Washi devastated the Northern Mindanao region of the Phillipines, forcing thousands of people from their homes.

WFP response to Mindanao floods 2

WFP is responding to the Philippine Government's request for support to assist over 74,000 people affected by the floods. Many of theese people have no access to food and clean drinking water.

WFP response to Mindanao floods 3

In this photo, members of the Philippine Air Force load WFP High Energy Biscuits onto a Fokker F27 plane so that they can be transported to Mindanao.

WFP response to Mindanao floods 4 According to the Philippines government, out of the 285,000 persons displaced by floods, some 43,000 are sheltering at 62 evacuation centres in the north of Mindanao.

WFP response to Mindanao floods 5

Boxes of ''Plumpy Doz', a nutritious ready-to-use food for children, are being stored in the gym of an Evacuation Center in the district of Macasandig in Cagayan de Oro City. This specialised food, aimed specifically at warding off malnutrition, will be given to as many as 15,000 children under 5 years of age.
 

WFP response to Mindanao floods 6

In this photo, 33-year old Rowena and one of her kids open the packets of High Energy Biscuits they received from WFP at the Evacuation Centre near

Cagayan de Oro.

WFP response to Mindanao floods 7

Rowena's two-year-old son Marcelo with his ration of WFP high energy biscuits.

WFP response to Mindanao floods 8

A little girl eating her WFP biscuits at the evacuation centre in Cagayan de Oro. As part of the initial response to the emergency, WFP delivered enough high-energy biscuits to feed more than 7,800 people here and in the nearby city of Iligan.