Humanitarian worker describes affects of Super Typhoon Fung-wong a week after Typhoon Kalmaegi

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Lei Kimmayong is the communication manager for World Vision in the Philippines and discusses the impacts of Super Typhoon Fung Wong making landfall. It comes just a week after more than 200 people were killed by Typhoon Kalmaegi.

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00:00it's really heartbreaking because imagine just sorry so it's really heartbreaking because imagine

00:11just days before we had another typhoon ichi kalmagi who claimed over 200 lives and now we

00:20are having this super typhoon who battered the philippines and we were talking with our field

00:26staff last night who were able to give us some updates where people have to go to the evacuation

00:32centers and some people are saying it's a kid who saw like their roofs in their village like being

00:40blown away you know they're just like paper and imagine like you're trying to go to safety and now

00:47you might be struck by those flying debris that would make you injured or worse and in another

00:55community leader she shared how they were in the evacuation center but because of the strong winds

01:02and the heavy rains so the rains get inside the evacuation center it's making the floor sweat

01:08so how can they sleep and that's through the night so and then there the waves are so high and because

01:16imagine this star's diameter is as big as two-thirds of the country

01:22it must be terrifying and i can i can see how much this is affecting you as well this must be really

01:30really difficult so we really appreciate you uh taking the time to to speak with us you're talking

01:36about those evacuation centers there what are those evacuation centers like there must be

01:42lots and lots of people there with you know around a million people displaced

01:47so usually because i was in the bickle region just a week ago and that's the center of one of the

01:55hard heat areas again due to tfung wong and they were like just a year ago actually they were devastated

02:04by trammy so there's this one kid who said like last year they were really affected because the floodwaters

02:12reached like near like two people no on top of each other but he said that the winds were really howling

02:22so they feel afraid and most of evacuation centers are filled with people and i was just yes sorry

02:30what are the you know immediate humanitarian needs in the philippines right now for both of these

02:37both of these storms okay so usually when there's a disaster the immediate urgent needs of the people

02:46would be food safe and drinking water emergency shelter kits hygiene kits those are the usual uh things

02:56that us that are needed because like what i was seeing in the evacuation center where it was uh wet

03:02they were not able to bring the blankets or the sleeping mats and most of their things are what they call this

03:12wet and some of the learning kits especially for children their learning materials are also wet so those

03:19are the things that are usually most needed immediately after a disaster just like from wong or kalmigi

03:26of course and then of course with all all of the flooding and and damage to infrastructure

03:32what are some of the the longer term concerns that you have for people

03:36so usually for longer term contents it's longer term uh needs especially when people want have to recover

03:47are for household repairs and i just remember because as i said i was in camarines actually uh a few weeks ago

03:57and it's the same area and they were telling me that it's been a year after but still the school

04:04were the person we were able to talk to said that they were not able have yet to have the computer

04:11replaced or school books textbooks or learning materials that they need so that's the impact

04:19usually especially for the education sector now for the children so that they could come back to school

04:24sometimes there's a need to repair their schools and in some infrastructures as well

Humanitarian worker describes affects of Super Typhoon Fung-wong a week after Typhoon Kalmaegi

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