IOM has tapped staff at multinational food chain McDonald's to help
paint hundreds of new homes built by IOM and the US Agency for
International Development (USAID) in Guinobatan, Albay, for
families displaced by Typhoon Reming (Durian) in 2006.

A group of ten volunteers from the local branch of McDonald's in
Legazpi started work on Saturday to help paint completed homes
built by the IOM-USAID Bicol Core Permanent Shelter and Community
Revitalization Assistance Project.

The 12-month project, funded by USAID and based in Albay and
Camarines Sur, is contributing to the Philippine Government's
sustainable recovery programme for Typhoon Reming survivors by
constructing typhoon-proof and earthquake-resistant houses and
multi-purpose community centres for families and communities
hardest hit by the super typhoon.

To date, IOM has constructed 423 new homes and plans to finish
484 more by the end of September 2008.

For more information, please contact:

Mark Maulit

IOM Manila

Tel: +63921 57 63 047

E-mail: "mailto:mmaulit@iom.int">mmaulit@iom.int