Malacanang has assurance to the victims of Yolanda survivors on the third anniversary of the typhoon.
The Malacanang Palace has assured the residents who were victims of super typhoon Yolanda that the government is trying to expedite the distribution of aid.
This was the assurance of the Malacanang to the victims of the disaster on the third anniversary of supertyphoon Yolanda on Tuesday, November 8.
At a press briefing in Malacañang on Tuesday, presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said, “on the part of the government, this ordeal taught us to exercise tapang at malasakit. Politics and disasters, as they say, is always a bad mix. So we will have none of that in this administration.”
According to Abella, the concerned department implementing the recovery efforts is now formulating new guidelines for the distribution of the employment shelter assistance to facilitate the speedy delivery of aid.”
Department of Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo revealed that on October 24 that there are still 200,000 Yolanda victims who have not yet received their emergency shelters.
According to Taguiwalo, there are several factors why the victims have not yet received.
She said that claimants were not given emergency shelter either because there was no available relocation site or because they did not support certain local government officials.
This urged Taguiwalo to submit a report to President Rodrigo Duterte to investigate the said irregularities.
Despite of this problems, Malacañang reminisced how Filipinos worked hand in hand after the aftermath of the supertyphoon in some parts of the Visayas.
“Today, we remember the third anniversary of the ‘Yolanda’ disaster. We remember the triumph of the human spirit, the human community, the Filipino people and the survivors and all those who stood with us, all the nations who helped us get back on our feet, the agencies, the organizations, and all who pitched in,” Abella said.
“They, together with all the communities affected by ‘Yolanda,’ are living examples of what can be achieved when we work together. ‘Yolanda’ brought misery and grief to our people, but it has likewise provided us with many lessons in our pre- and post-disaster response,” he added.