The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Negros Island Region Field Office on Saturday announced it has prepared a total of 75,000 family food packs (FFPs) that can be tapped for relief operations following the explosive eruption of Kanlaon Volcano on Friday night.
“Our field office coordinated with the local government units (LGUs) if they needed help from DSWD. We likewise assessed their situation,” DSWD Assistant Secretary and spokesperson Irene Dumlao said in a mix of English and Filipino.
In a report to Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gatchalian, DSWD Negros Island Region Regional Director Arwin Razo said no internally displaced persons (IDPs) have yet been recorded in the affected localities with the raising of Alert Level 2 over the volcano.
DSWD quick response teams (QRTs) are continuously monitoring and coordinating with LGUs for technical assistance and possible resource augmentation, Razo further reported to Gatchalian.
Aside from the prepositioned food packs, the Negros Island Region Field Office’s other logistics, such as mobile kitchen, mobile command center, and water filtration truck, are also on standby and ready to be deployed anytime as the situation escalates.
The field office continues to be on alert and ready to provide swift response to Negrenses in line with the directive of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr that no family will go hungry in times of disaster.
