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  World Vision responding to Typhoon Haiyan devastation in the Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms on record to make landfall, battered the Philippines on November 8 and caused catastrophic damage. World Vision’s teams are responding with emergency relief supplies for children and families in desperate need.


    By Chris Huber and Holly Frew, World Vision U.S.; with contributions from Aaron Aspi, and Crislyn Felisilda, World Vision Philippines  





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December 12, 2013 at 11:15am PST 




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A World Vision staff member looks on as people gather for a relief distribution in northern Cebu, an area hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan. (©2013 World Vision)






Evidence of the storm’s devastation is stark as crowds gather for the distribution to begin. (©2013 Jon Warren/World Vision)




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The family home of sponsored child Baby Claire, 9 (in pink top), was smashed by falling coconut palm trees during the typhoon. The family was saved by going to a nearby community center. (©2013 Jon Warren/World Vision)






The home of Cleopa Itang, 62, was badly damaged, too. Cleopa shares her home with three teenage grandchildren. (©2013 Jon Warren/World Vision)






Cyrah Mae, 4, is pictured here with her mother in the background, Maria Theresa Itang, 24, holding baby Princess Ella, 4 months. The family’s home was destroyed. (©2013 Jon Warren/World Vision)






With nothing left, the people wait on the street for food supplies. (©2013 Lanie Carillo/World Vision)






A boy walks through the devastation in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. (©2013 World Vision)






Gelian dela Cruz, 11, is worried that her school is ruined. She was even excited to do an oral recitation the day when the storm struck their town in Cebu. (©2013 Pio Arce/Genesis Photos)






Along the roadside on the way to World Vision’s distribution in north Cebu island, children and adults hold up signs to cars driving by, begging for food and water. (©2013 Jon Warren/World Vision)





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Typhoon Haiyan, reported by media outlets as one of the strongest tropical cyclones in recorded history, made landfall on November 8 in Samar, central Philippines.
World Vision has launched an emergency response to help affected vulnerable children and families.
World Vision has already assisted more than 145,000 people with emergency supplies of food, clean water, and essential non-food items. Eventually, World Vision aims to help 400,000 people in Cebu, Samar, Leyte, Iloilo, Capiz, Antique, and Aklan.

	Millions of people affected
Nearly 6,000 people in the central Philippines were killed, and millions more were affected and displaced after Typhoon Haiyan left a wake of utter destruction.
About 9.5 million people were impacted, according to the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Haiyan wreaked havoc on the country’s telecommunications, agriculture, and transportation infrastructure, delaying recovery and relief efforts.
The greatest immediate needs for typhoon survivors are food, clean water, and temporary shelter.

	A massive response
World Vision launched one of its largest relief operations in five decades of ministry in the Philippines to help nearly 400,000 people affected by the disaster.
More than 200 local staff members mobilized to help provide food, blankets, mosquito nets, tarps, hygiene kits, and emergency shelter.
World Vision’s key response areas are:

		Emergency food

		Livelihood restoration

		Child-Friendly Spaces

		Shelter and nonfood items (blankets, cooking kits, etc.)

		Water, sanitation, and hygiene

		Health and nutrition

	A place for children to heal
Child-Friendly Spaces — areas where children can play, learn, and begin to recover from their experience in a safe environment — are a large part of World Vision’s unique response to disasters like Typhoon Haiyan.
Child-Friendly Spaces are important for parents, too, giving them “a chance to relax and relate to each other while the children are playing with toys and having fun,” says World Vision’s child protection specialist, Patrick Sooma.
World Vision opened its first Child-Friendly Space on November 20 in Tabugon, northern Cebu. At least 400 children played and took part in activities in tent spaces set up on the grounds of the Somosa Elementary School, which was badly damaged by the storm.
Forty Child-Friendly Spaces are slated to open in the communities hit hardest throughout the central Philippines.

	35,000 sponsored children impacted
The storm affected more than 40,000 sponsored children in 20 development project areas where World Vision works, including Bohol, which was badly damaged by last month’s earthquake. U.S. donors sponsor more than 5,600 of those children, in Leyte and Antique.
Josaias dela Cruz, World Vision national director in the Philippines, appeals for a compassionate global response. “Please continue to uphold in prayer our responding staff and the suffering people in the Visayas and other typhoon-stricken areas. Now is the time to join our hearts, extend our helping hands, and work together to rebuild and uplift our fellow people’s lives.”

	Help now
Please pray that children would be protected from sickness, fear, accidents, and exploitation. Also pray for ongoing relief efforts, for aid workers who risk their own safety to help others, and for rebuilding projects and long-term plans for recovery.
Sponsor a child in the Philippines. When a disaster like Typhoon Haiyan strikes, sponsorship provides a child and entire community with life-saving basics and resilience in the aftermath.
Make a one-time donation to World Vision’s Philippines Disaster Response Fund. Your contribution will help us deliver life-saving assistance in the aftermath of sudden-onset emergencies in the Philippines, including Typhoon Haiyan.

	Learn more
View additional images of the storm’s aftermath and World Vision’s distributions on the World Vision magazine site.
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    Highlights  


		Typhoon Haiyan is one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall.

		Nearly 6,000 people are believed to have died, and some 3.6 million are displaced.

		World Vision has already distributed emergency food, water, and non-food items to an estimated 106,000 people, with plans to reach at least 400,000.

		The greatest needs include clean water, food, and shelter.

World Vision continues raising funds to provide emergency assistance to survivors of the deadly storm.
 
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