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    Tropical Storm Ketsana, known locally as Typhoon Ondoy, brought a month's worth of rain in 12 hours to Manila and parts of central Luzon in the Philippines on September 26, 2009. At least 140 people died and over 450,000 were displaced by the resulting floods. Areas experienced widespread damage to infrastructure, property, and agriculture. Local churches opened as evacuation centers and provided food, water, and supplies to those displaced. The Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is working with partners to distribute additional relief goods and support continued assistance efforts.

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    Tropical Storm Ketsana, known locally as Typhoon Ondoy, brought a month's worth of rain in 12 hours to Manila and parts of central Luzon in the Philippines on September 26, 2009. At least 140 people died and over 450,000 were displaced by the resulting floods. Areas experienced widespread damage to infrastructure, property, and agriculture. Local churches opened as evacuation centers and provided food, water, and supplies to those displaced. The Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is working with partners to distribute additional relief goods and support continued assistance efforts.

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    Tropical Storm Ketsana, known locally as Typhoon Ondoy, brought a month's worth of rain in 12 hours to Manila and parts of central Luzon in the Philippines on September 26, 2009. At least 140 people died and over 450,000 were displaced by the resulting floods. Areas experienced widespread damage to infrastructure, property, and agriculture. Local churches opened as evacuation centers and provided food, water, and supplies to those displaced. The Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is working with partners to distribute additional relief goods and support continued assistance efforts.

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    Tropical Storm Ketsana, known locally as Typhoon Ondoy, brought a month's worth of rain in 12 hours to Manila and parts of central Luzon in the Philippines on September 26, 2009. At least 140 people died and over 450,000 were displaced by the resulting floods. Areas experienced widespread damage to infrastructure, property, and agriculture. Local churches opened as evacuation centers and provided food, water, and supplies to those displaced. The Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is working with partners to distribute additional relief goods and support continued assistance efforts.

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    Typhoon Ondoy

    Tropical Storm "Ketsana," locally known as "Ondoy," swept across metro Manila and parts of Central
    Luzon on Saturday, September 26, 2009, and brought a month's worth of rain in just 12 hours. The waters
    rose so fast that people living in low lying areas were caught unaware and had to stay on the roofs of their
    houses to avoid being swept away by the floods. At least 140 died from the storm, and more than 450,000
    people have been displaced and have sought shelter in schools, churches and other evacuation shelters.

    Electricity has been cut in submerged areas for safety reasons; generators and water systems have been
    damaged by floodwater as well. Public and private infrastructure and property as well as agriculture have
    been destroyed or damaged.

    In the evacuation centers, cramped conditions and limited water and sanitation facilities pose the risk of
    worsening health conditions. Nutrition is also a concern, given the irregular provision of instant food
    products.

    Areas most impacted

    The National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), an agency of the Philippine government under the
    Department of National Defense responsible for ensuring the protection and welfare of the people during
    disasters or emergencies, has issued a State of National Calamity in the following areas:

    National Capital Region (NCR - 58,161 persons affected)

    CAR: Mt. Province, Ifugao, Benguet

    Region I: Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur

    Region II: Isabela, Quirino, Neuva Vizcaya

    Region III (South Luzon): Aurora, Nueva Ecija, Zambales, Pampanga, Bulacan, Tarlac, Bataan (216,415
    persons affected)

    Region IV-A (Central Luzon)-A: Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon (148,504 persons affected)

    Region IV-B: Mindoro (Occidental and Oriental), Marinduque

    Region V: Catanduanes, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur


    The worst hit areas are Manila, Muntinlupa and Taguig in the NCR, Bulacan and Pampanga in Central
    Luzon, and Laguna and Batangas in South Luzon.

    The NDCC has deployed several assets (personnel, 12 ambulances, 33 M35 trucks, 59 rubber boats, 112
    other vehicles) along with assistance from the U.S. embassy (personnel, 2 watercraft, 1 chopper, 8 island
    cruisers). A total of 7,908 persons have been saved through their combined effort.

    PDA Response

    Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is working with our partners, the United Church of Christ in the
    Philippines and the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP). The NCCP has been monitoring
    the situation through its member churches, regional ecumenical councils and people's organizations in
    the affected areas. Local churches in the affected communities have been immediately opening their
    premises as evacuation and relief centers and providing basic humanitarian assistance of food, drinking
    water, nonfood relief items, basic medicines and personal hygiene necessities.

    Action by Churches Together (ACT) is cooperating to provide assistance to poor urban communities in the
    riverside areas of Quezon City; there, in addition to the loss of homes and possessions, most residents
    have also lost their means of livelihood as factory workers, tricycle drivers and small vendors. ACT is
    preparing a package of relief goods, including food, water, clothes, candles, sleeping mats, mosquito nets,
    pots and pans, etc., that will be distributed to the most vulnerable families affected in this region.

    ACT is preparing an international ACT appeal to provide additional assistance of food, drinking water,
    nonfood relief items, basic medicines and personal hygiene items. Support for local partners will include
    transportation, communications and operational support for volunteers and relief coordinators as well as
    design of relief packages that are compliant with Sphere Minimum Standards of disaster relief, monitoring
    and reporting.

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