PRESS RELEASE 190216
Category: Ilocos Region
TS Egay (Linfa) affects 13,000 Families in Ilocos Region
As of July 6, 2015, around 13,000 families or close to 50,000 individuals were affected by massive flooding due to Tropical Storm Egay (international name Linfa) in the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and La Union. Of these, around 1,400 families or 5,400 people in Ilocos Norte were evacuated and almost 500 families were...
Photo Gallery: Relief distribution in the Ilocos Region
CDRC and ICRED distributed relief goods to three provinces in the Ilocos Region: La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte. Peace Winds Japan and Japan Platform supported this activity.
German aid agency donates funds for flood victims
Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, an NGO under Diakonisches Werk of the EKD, the Social Service Agency of the German Protestant Church, has donated funds to CDRC to help assist 2,260 families affected by the monsoon rains. Thousands of families were forced to evacuate after the southwest monsoon rains caused severe floods and landslide in Metro Manila and...