Social Welfare and Development Secretary Dinky Soliman said that the DSWD continues to conduct relief operations in different areas affected by typhoon “Gener” and continuous rains.

Secretary Soliman said that the DSWD, concerned LGUs and non-government organizations had already delivered P12.45 million worth of relief assistance to some 181,181 families or 816,739 persons in 1,178 barangays, 145 municipalities, 23 cities in 32 provinces in the country.

According to the report from the DSWD’s Disaster Response Operations and Monitoring Center (DROMIC), Region III has the most number of affected families with 99,518 composed of 428,720 individuals. The towns of Obando and Calumpit in Bulacan are still flooded.

In Region IV-A, particularly in Rodriquez, Rizal, there were 490 families or 2,450 individuals affected. These families came from barangays Rosario Plaza, Burgos, Aranzazu and Manggahan. Sixty-five (65) displaced families are still staying in the evacuation center.

DSWD Field Office IV-A already distributed 1,506 family food packs and the LGU of Rizal has provided 220 food packs to affected families.

In the National Capital Region, the local social welfare office of Manila continues to serve hot meals and packed lunch to affected families staying in evacuation centers.

To date, ‘Gener’ has also damaged 7,339 houses due to flood waters.  Of these, 1,041 housing units were totally damaged while 6,298 housing units were partially destroyed.  ###