BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines – The Canadian International Development Agency has joined the ongoing relief drive for calamity-hit Isabela, distributing P587,000 worth of relief goods to families affected by the successive onslaught of typhoon “Juan” and floods there.
The Quezon City-based Citizens’ Disaster Response Center, where the relief assistance was coursed through, said more than 600 families benefited from last Friday’s relief drive in the villages of Yeban Norte, Yeban Sur, Maluno Norte, and Maluno Sur in Benito Soliven town.
Each relief pack, according to the Center for Relief and Rehabilitation Services-Cagayan Valley, contained 10 kilos of rice, a kilo of beans, a kilo of dried fish, canned goods, sugar, cooking oil, soap, and bottled water.