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3-month feeding program for typhoon victims set
MANILA, Philippines--Thousands of typhoon victims in Albay will have food on their table—at least for the next three months.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development has rolled out a food-for-work program with a P42-million Japanese government grant extended last week in response to an international call for more assistance to the victims of Supertyphoon "Reming" (international name Durian) that devastated the region in 2006.
Under the program, a family member who participates in community development projects, such as construction work, will take home P200 worth of food packs daily.
The project is expected to feed 18,840 families in Albay (the worst hit by "Reming," which triggered a deadly avalanche of volcanic debris from Mount Mayon), Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte, Catanduanes, Masbate and Sorsogon.
The fund, from the Japanese Emergency Grant Aid, was turned over to the DSWD by Japanese Ambassador Ryuichiro Yamazaki at the project's kickoff on Friday.
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