00:00Following the order of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. for a quick response to calamities,
00:07the DSWD is continuously repacking family food packs and non-food items
00:14to meet the needs of the residents affected by the taste of heavy rain and storm.
00:21This is what Gav Villegas reported.
00:24The Department of Social Welfare and Development of Hot Meals
00:29is divided into more than 600 passengers stranded in Albay, Masbate and Sorsogon.
00:34According to DSWD Field Office 5,
00:36almost 130,000 family food packs and almost 80,000 non-food items are pre-positioned
00:43in various LGUs and warehouses of the DSWD in the Bicol Region.
00:48Of the 146 families affected by heavy rain and flood,
00:53Baguio-Enteng was the only one to provide family food packs and non-food items
00:58in Lerma and Triangulo in Laga City.
01:00More than 2,000 family food packs are pre-positioned in the city
01:04to be distributed to the affected communities.
01:07DSWD Field Office 5 immediately distributed hot meals to 504 evacuees
01:13in Karatagan in Piodoran in Albay.
01:16More than 76,000 family food packs and almost 30,000 non-food items
01:21are also pre-positioned in strategic locations in Eastern Visayas.
01:25This is to ensure that local governments will be able to distribute
01:29what is needed for augmentation.
01:31Now, the Department of Social Welfare and Development of Hot Meals
01:34is busy repacking family food packs and non-food items
01:37to meet the needs of the affected residents of Baguio-Enteng
01:41who were also affected by heavy rain.
01:43According to DSWD Spokesperson Assistant Secretary Irene Dumlao,
01:47their field offices are continuously monitoring and cooperating
01:52with government agencies to ensure that
01:55the help needed by the affected families will be distributed quickly.
01:58According to the latest data of DSWD,
02:01of the 24,000 individuals in 76 barangays in the Bicol Region,
02:09Central and Eastern Visayas are affected by heavy rain.
02:13Of the 100 families, more than 3,700 individuals
02:17remain in 31 evacuation centers in 3 regions.
02:22More than Php 410,000 is the amount of first aid
02:28to the affected families.
02:30Gav Villagas for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
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