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December 10, 2013
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Mass graves, no food: Church aid workers
see great needs in Philippines
By Simone Orendain
MANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- Nearly
two weeks after Super Typhoon Haiyan
tore through the central Philippines,
Catholic aid workers were seeing great
needs.
Sandra Harlass, emergency relief
coordinator and health adviser for
Malteser International, was concerned
about getting emergency food to displaced residents in Eastern Samar, the
easternmost province among the central islands that took the first lashing
from Haiyan.
“The needs are huge,” said Harlass,
who had just returned to Manila from
the tiny towns of San Antonio and
Amandayehan, across the strait from
the worst-hit city of Tacloban.
“Ninety percent of houses are destroyed ... most were washed away from
the storm surge. All food supplies were
washed away, all the nonfood items,
like blankets, mosquito nets, everything is gone,” she said.
The team of assessors found people
who had had very little to eat nine days
after the storm struck. Harlass said
one of the villages had received food
from the government once; the other
had none.
“Overall, they are highly food insecure because there is no schedule of
regular food delivery, so people don’t
know when the next food (is) coming,”
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