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Murcia City Council, through the Department of Cooperation has provided the means to help victims of Manila and other areas of the northern Philippines in the wake of Tropical Storm Ketsana, by sending humanitarian aid amounting to 24,000 Euros.
To send this assistance has been contacted by three global organizations since the start of the disaster are providing assistance to victims, such as Red Cross, Caritas and UNICEF Spanish.
Those organizations whose goals include assisting in disasters such as occurred, specifically and according to reports submitted to the Development Cooperation Service have each made an emergency project for the next three months that will provide the Municipality of Murcia their collaboration in the following way:
Spanish Red Cross has submitted a project to help 3,000 families in the districts of Luzon and Metro Manila (Philippines), consisting in providing kits for Non-Food-Items (NFI) toilets.
Spanish Caritas help 5,500 families in the city of Padang (Sumatra), providing lots of tools.
Unicef has submitted a project for children in Sumatra, which is to establish temporary schools in tents to provide basic material for teaching and learning and provide support and counseling for post-traumatic children affected.
Remember that in the last days of last September, the city of Manila and other areas of the northern Philippines have been ravaged by the passage of Tropical Storm Ketsana, having caused the worst flooding in 40 years.
As a result, and according to provisional data of human and material damage are:
204 evacuation centers (mostly in schools).
448,454 people evacuated (89,116 families).
240 people died.
320,000 families affected.
On the other hand, the 30th of September, an earthquake of scale 7.6 (Richter) took place 57 kilometers from the town of Padang (Sumatra).
Following this, there was another tremor of 6.8 to 155 km northwest of Bengkulu.
As a result, and according to provisional data, there are:
700 people died.
More than 1,000 people missing.
179,629 buildings were damaged.
180,000 children affected.
In the same way as in the past, in which there have been personal injury and damage resulting from natural phenomena such as floods in Ecuador in early 2008, and in that year by hurricanes Ike and Gustav which hit hard in Cuba and Haiti, the Council has provided the necessary means to assist in these areas of need.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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