PLEASE READ! Answers to our questions regarding relief distribution Nesirky explained that the geography of the Philippines, with its numerous islands, makes it difficult to deliver aid in a timely manner. People have not received aid in some cases where they desperately need it. Everybodys aware of that. Its a question of being able to marshall the resources you have and to get to the locations you can as quickly as you can. Not easy, but know people are doing the very best that they can, said Martin Nesirky, the United Nations spokesperson for the Secretary-General. International relief efforts have begun to gather pace, with dozens of countries and organizations pledging tens of millions of dollars in aid. UN aid chief Valerie Amos, who has traveled to the Philippines, released $25 million for aid relief on Monday (November 11) from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund. Rescuers have yet to reach remote parts of the coast, such as Guiuan, a city of 40,000 people that was largely destroyed. Relief supplies poured into Tacloban along roads flanked with corpses and canyons of debris as the rain fell again. Rescue workers scrambled to reach other towns and villages still cut off, which could reveal the full extent of the casualties and devastation. Taclobans government was wiped out by the storm, said Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas. Officials were dead, missing or too overcome with grief to work. Of the citys 293 police officers, only 20 had shown up for duty, he said. Corazon Soliman, Secretary of the Philippine Department of Social Welfare and Development, said aid had reached a third of Taclobans 45,000 families. Most of its stores remain closed - either destroyed or shut after widespread looting. solarnews.ph/news/2013/11/13/un-spokesman-defends-ph-response-to-yolanda#.UoObanCmjwP
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:26:11 +0000
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