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Stephen Anderson, WFP's Country Director in the Philippines, gives an update on the food assistance operations under way in the Asian country in the wake of Tropical Storm Ketsana.

As assessments of the devastation wreaked by Super-Typhoon Haiyan highlight the immediate need to provide food assistance to all affected communities, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is extending its reach with airlifts, ferry services and trucks.

Today (Wednesday) WFP rice was distributed to 49,000 people in the Tacloban area through family packs handed out by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). The packs contain rice and canned goods.

WFP and the Department of Social Welfare and Development distributed High Energy Biscuits (HEBs) to 5,000 people at Tacloban airport on Thursday. Deliveries to other communities including Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and other parts of Leyte are due to start today.

WFP has distributed more than 230 tons of ‘high energy’ biscuits in the Philippines as part of its response to the recent typhoons and flooding. Intent on seeing how these biscuits get from factory to beneficiary, Martin Penner followed one consignment all the way to a little boy called Antonio…

Since 13 November, family food packs with rice for more than 760,000 people, plus High Energy Biscuits for 33,000 people have been dispatched to shelters in 24 municipalities  on Leyte Island, as well as in Tacloban City, where Cousin also met with government officials.