DSWD distributes 35K food packs to Ilocos

DSG | via PNA – DSWD distributes 35K food packs to Ilocos | MALASIQUI, Pangasinan — DSWD has prepared 35,347 family food packets in Ilocos Region for Typhoon Mawar, which is likely to approach the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) this weekend.

According to the DSWD’s Thursday statement, 1,500 food packs have been delivered to warehouses in Anda, 1,000 in Bautista town, both in Pangasinan province, and 2,000 in the regional warehouse in San Fernando City, La Union. The rest are on standby in other satellite centres.

Family meal boxes are not directly given to the affected. The afflicted are not issued family food packs by our local government units (LGUs). “The LGUs will first use their quick response fund,” DSWD information officer Anne Hazel Fajardo-Flores said Thursday.

If funds are insufficient, LGUs might request DSWD augmentation.

29,868 non-food and 5,007 bottled water are ready.

DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian recently assured the public that the agency had enough prepositioned aid commodities in typhoon-prone areas.

DSWD Central Office has 689,885 family food kits nationally.

Regions I (Ilocos), II (Cagayan Valley), III (Central Luzon), CAR, and Visayas have also received 98,000 FFPs from DSWD.

Gatchalian stated the eastern seaboards of Region I, II, and III were closely monitored to double capabilities.