UNICEF in action
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A family seeks shelter in a makeshift tent while waiting to be evacuated during flooding in Bocaue, north of Manila. |
Inside of 24 hours of the calamity, UNICEF took up an active role within the National Disaster Coordinating Council Operations Centre. Some other immediate key actions, as at 29 September, include:
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
- 2,000 Hygiene kit item distributed to the Department of Social Welfare for distribution along with the Non-Food Relief Item kits.
- Immediate order placed for Water kits for 40,000 people (7,000 families).
- WASH consulted with the Metro Manila water supply examining all the areas on concern where water distribution had been cut off – within the last 24 hours Manila water has restored changing the focus of the UNICEF response from water provision to ensuring portability.
Shelter and Non-Food Relief Items
- 2,000 family Non-Food Item Packs made up of blankets, plastic sleeping mats, towels, soap, laundry soap, jerrican etc deployed within 24 hours of the floods.
Health and Nutrition
- In partnership with Medicine Sans Frontiers Swiss, UNICEF provided essential medicines for the purpose of conducting mobile health clinics in Rizal (a highly affected area by the floods just outside Metro Manila).
Protection and Psycho-Social Support
- In partnership with the National Network for Street Children, psychosocial care and support is being delivered in evacuation camps, targeted at 100 camps by end week.
- 200 trained volunteers have already been mobilised.
- Anti-trafficking partners will be mobilised, including all trained community educators.
- A rapid registration form for all unaccompanied, separated and/or missing children was developed and is now being used by all NGOs / INGOs in network.
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