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Humanitarian Relief Operations for "Ondoy" and "Pepeng" Victims | USAID Assists Victims of Tropical Storm Sendong    
Pulling together: The Red Cross, Ambassador Kenney, the U.S. Military and USAID distribute relief items. Ambassador Kristie Kenney greets a young evacuee at the Diosdado Macapagal Elementary School. A young evacuee holds a food stub, ready to enjoy the day’s lunch at the Diosdado Macapagal Elementary School’s Feeding Program. Ambassador Kristie Kenney distributes the local ’lugaw’ (porridge) during the Feeding Program at the Diosdado Macapagal Ementary School. Senator Richard Gordon of the Philippine National Red Cross and Ambassador Kristie Kenney distribute relief goods to evacuees. As part of its rapid response to flood victims, relief goods for 20,000 families arrive on October 2.
USAID mobilizes relief goods with typhoon Pepeng's approach. USAID and Philippine National Red Cross unload $400,000 worth of relief goods for tropical storm Ondoy victims. Inspecting USAID relief packages before distributing to flood victims. Ambassador Kristie Kenney, USAID's Elzadia Washington, and Catherine Martin of the Philippine National Red Cross giving relief goods to flood victims in Biñan, Laguna. USAID and Philippine National Red Cross relief goods were temporarily housed at the San Pedro Apostol Parish Church in Barangay Malaban before being distributed to flood-affected families. A second shipment of relief goods for tropical storm Ondoy victims arrived on October 13.
U.S. Embassy Charge d' Affaires Leslie Bassett (left and USAID's Luth Alejandrino (right) inspect the second shipment of relief good.          
Water supply is cut off in areas damaged by recent flash floods in the Philippines. USAID, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), is providing water and hygiene supplies to over 7,500 persons for drinking, handwashing, and bathing. Photo by: Jerome Torres, CRS On Christmas Eve, USAID, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), distributed water and hygiene kits to 1,000 families displaced from recent flooding in Cagayan de Oro. The city’s water supply has been cut off since the floods on December 16, 2011. Photo by: Jerome Torres, CRS USAID, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), is distributing emergency water and sanitation kits to over 1,500 displaced families after flooding in the Philippines. Photo by: Jerome Torres, CRS USAID, in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS,) mobilized a rapid response in the Philippines to provide emergency water and hygiene supplies to 1,500 families displaced by the floods. Photo by: Jerome Torres, CRS USAID provides water tanks for drinking outside an evacuation center. Photo by: USAID CRS staff assist local water committees in testing USAID provided potable water tanks. Photo by: USAID
USAID provides water for drinking and washing clothes outside an evacuation center. Photo by: USAID USAID through partner CRS help to maintain the cleanliness around sanitation facilities outside the evacuation centers through the provision of hand washing stations. Photo by: USAID USAID partners CRS put the final touches on a community of transitional houses.  The houses are made of local materials, and are similar to those that victims have lived in before the disaster.  These homes will last for two years while a more permanent housing solution is sought by the government of the Philippines. Photo by: USAID USAID partners GEM check a delivery of school supplies that they just delivered to flood affected schools. Photo by: USAID A teacher demonstrates a jerry can and water purification kit that was given to the school by USAID partner Plan international in Iligan. Photo by: USAID School offices try and salvage records damaged by flood waters. Photo by: USAID
Teachers hold their classes side by side in makeshift school on a high school gym as their elementary school was destroyed in the flood. Photo by: USAID USAID program Officer Karen Smith talks to a teacher about the challenges of teaching in a makeshift shelter. Photo by: USAID A young student eagerly picks up a new book donated to her school through the USAID GEM project. Photo by: USAID USAID Program Officer Karen Smith reads from a new book donated to an elementary school destroyed by the floods. Photo by: USAID USAID’s GEM project delivers essential school supplies a makeshift elementary school. Photo by: USAID  

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