The offices of Leyte 1st District Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez and Tingog Party-list have prepositioned rice and essential relief goods across Tacloban City and seven municipalities in Leyte to ensure immediate support to families who may be affected by Typhoon “Tino” (international name: Kalmaegi).
In a statement on Tuesday, Romualdez said Tingog personnel and volunteers delivered initial stocks to Palo, Tanauan, Tolosa, Sta. Fe, Alang-alang, San Miguel, and Babatngon as part of the group’s preparedness efforts.
The former Speaker emphasized that “preparedness remains a top priority to protect vulnerable communities, especially in coastal and low-lying barangays.”
“We want every family to be ready and no one left struggling when bad weather comes,” Romualdez said.
Each municipality will receive noodles, sardines, biscuits, coffee, Energen, and rice to the towns of Palo, Tanauan, Alang-alang, Tolosa, Sta. Fe, San Miguel, and Babatngon.
The relief effort is part of a broader preparedness initiative, with a total of 15,000 kilograms of rice already prepositioned for deployment should the situation escalate.
Relief supplies prepared also include 110 boxes of noodles, 80 boxes of sardines, 20 boxes of Energen, 25 boxes of biscuits, and 80 boxes of coffee.
The offices of Romualdez and Tingog also began distributing hot meals to evacuees arriving at various evacuation centers in Tacloban City on Monday afternoon as part of their ongoing relief and readiness operations.
The food distribution aims to provide comfort and sustenance to families seeking temporary shelter due to the storm, Tingog said.
As of Monday night, about 3,000 hot meals had been served to evacuees in Tacloban.
Meanwhile, Tingog’s leadership said that the feeding operation will continue on Tuesday in the city and nearby towns to ensure that displaced residents receive warm meals and immediate support during the weather disturbance.
“We want to move fast and be present even before the storm arrives,” Rep. Andrew Romualdez said.
For his part, Jude Acidre underscored that proactive relief positioning remains crucial in disaster-prone Eastern Visayas, particularly in light of recent weather advisories.
“We prepositioned these supplies to ensure families will not go hungry and to enable immediate delivery of support during emergencies,” Acidre said.
