IOM has received an additional USD 600,000 from the Office of
Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) to deliver badly needed aid to
families displaced by Tropical Storm Washi (locally known as
Sendong) in Mindanao in the southern Philippines.

The funds will provide an estimated 1,130 families in the worst
affected cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan with the opportunity
to rebuild their homes with shelter repair materials and kits. They
will also provide 200 people with short-term income generation
opportunities through cash-for-work programmes, and another 50
families with cash grants to promote safer building methods.

The latest figures from the Philippines Department of Social
Welfare and Development (DSWD) show that there are still 4,727
families in evacuation centres in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan cities,
and a total of 35,222 affected families outside of evacuation
centres.

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IOM, which serves as the co-lead with the DSWD in the IASC Camp
Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) cluster, is currently
improving conditions in evacuation centres and transition sites by
building privacy partitions, bed kits, latrines, bathing cubicles,
multi-purpose halls and cooking counters.

It is also distributing shelter repair kits and essential
non-food relief items to displaced families to allow them to leave
evacuation centres and return to their homes.

IOM teams have already completed construction of 75 bunkhouses
in the Lumbia relocation site in Cagayan de Oro City. The project
provided short-term employment to almost 200 people from evacuation
centres and host communities through a cash-for-work programme.

According to IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix, which
generates data on the needs of displaced families inside and
outside of evacuation centres, there remains an urgent need for
alternative evacuation and transitional sites. It also points to a
need for more aid in the area of water and sanitation. This
includes the provision of more drinking water, latrines and
separate washing areas for men and women.

Tropical Storm Washi struck the northeastern coast of Mindanao
on 16th December 2011, dumping over 142 millimetres of rain in just
12 hours. This triggered deadly flash floods from three major
rivers, which killed over 1,000 people and displaced thousands of
families – most of whom were forced to seek refuge in
makeshift evacuation centres.

In addition to the USAID / OFDA funds, IOM has received EUR
700,000 from the European Commission through its Humanitarian Aid
Department (ECHO), CAD$ 175,000 from the Canadian International
Development Agency and USD 1 million from the UN Central Emergency
Response Fund (CERF).

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For more information, please contact:

Dave Bercasio

IOM Mindanao

Tel: +63.908.865.4546

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