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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Red Cross helps region worst hit by Typhoon Bopha



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* Typhoon Pablo Hit My Town Of Compostela, Mindanao

In a matter of hours, some communities in Eastern Mindanao were literally blown away by Typhoon Bopha (locally called Pablo). The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working together with the Philippine Red Cross, is bringing relief to thousands of survivors in this part of southern Philippines, which was hit first and hardest by the typhoon when it made landfall on 4 December.

See the complete operational update to find out how the Red Cross is on the ground delivering vital food and relief items, providing medicines and medical supplies to help hospitals cope with the influx of patients wounded during the typhoon, and improving access to safe drinking water.

“There’s nothing left in some places. We tried to find evacuation centres, but many of them had collapsed,” says Wilson Mondal, an ICRC emergency team member who was deployed to an area where the eye of the typhoon passed. “Some people are just living on the side of the road. They need everything.” Learn more updates from the field in this interview.

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