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Pacquiao, NGOs send 8,000 tons of ‘Odette’ aid

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The United Relief Operations, a composite team from Manny Pacquiao Foundation, Tzu Chi Foundation, and celebrity volunteers bound to Tacloban City, is now airborne to deliver around 8,000 tons of food and non-food items for typhoon Odette victims.

This is the fifth day of continuous relief delivery of United Relief Operations spearheaded by Sen. Manny Pacquiao starting on his birthday last December 17.

Headed by Team Pacquiao’s Campaign Manager Buddy Zamora and Communications Head Bernard Peralta, Tzu Chi Foundation and media, the group will endorse the relief packs to the Southern Leyte provincial government.

The provincial government is struggling to gather reports of the typhoon damage since mobile phone signals are still unavailable in the province.

The planeload of aid includes 650 units of environmentally friendly solar-powered floodlights. The entire province has been hit by a power outage since December 16, affecting 13 municipalities.

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Meanwhile, Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday started distribution of relief goods for typhoon victims in Southern Leyte, Negros Occidental, Agusan del Norte, Surigao del Norte, and Dinagat Islands.

In Visayas, Hontiveros’s relief operations initially include municipalities of Maasin, Padre Burgos, and Sogod in Southern Leyte, as well as municipalities of Kabankalan and Himamaylan in Negros Occidental. Aid will also be given to Bohol, Iloilo, Negros Oriental, and other areas of Negros Occidental.

The operations in Mindanao cover Surigao City in Surigao del Norte, parts of Agusan del Norte, and Dinagat Islands. Water filtration systems will also be turned over to Surigao City and Dinagat Islands.

The senator’s Healthy Pinas mobile clinic will also be present to provide free medical services in the Mindanao and Southern Leyte relief operations.

Relief operations will continue even after Christmas in Cebu, Misamis Oriental, and Cagayan de Oro.

Hontiveros added that the recent devastation requires government to immediately establish policies that can mitigate the effects of climate change.

Meanwhile, the St. Luke’s Medical Center- Bayanihan, a relief operation for the victims of Typhoon Odette, has called on volunteers to help in preparing the food packages at the Henry Sy Sr. Auditorium.

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