World Vision adapts Last Mile Mobile Solutions to fast track delivery of aid in Pablo recovery areas promoting efficiency, effectiveness and accountability in service delivery of aid

Now it only takes an ID scan to claim relief supplies for thousands of World Vision-assisted families in Pablo-hit areas under its Food Assistance Pilot Project (FAPP) 

Every year, there are around 20 typhoons that hit the Philippines. Last year, Typhoon Pablo alone damaged millions of properties and ruined thousands of lives. Indeed, typhoons are voracious enough to leave victims at the brink of their vulnerability— most especially children.

“Many houses in our village are made of light materials, so when the storm or flood comes, they are easily destroyed,"

 As we enter 2013, massive challenges lay ahead as World Vision resumes relief work in the hardest-hit areas of Compostela Valley, Agusan del Sur and Davao Oriental. More resources are needed to assist the 27,500 target families

Urgent needs are shelter, water, food and non-food items, hygiene kits and psychosocial support for survivors especially children.

Relief operations are hampered as Pablo-affected areas in Mindanao experience continuous heavy downpour induced by the cold front. Weather authorities warn the public to keep alert on flashfloods and mudslides in Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental,

Compostela Valley and Agusan del Sur, which experience worsening floods due to overflowing rivers and waterways.

World Vision staff Dexter Mancao was trapped inside his home 

As heavy rains open the year in Southern Philippines, World Vision relief teams resume emergency response with massive challenges in Pablo-hit areas. More resources are urgently needed for long

term rehabilitation and recovery of ravaged areas in Davao Oriental, Compostela Valley and Agusan del Sur provinces in Mindanao.

Child-focused relief organization, World Vision kicks-off its Child Friendly Space (CFS) in New Bataan, Compostela Valley to complement ongoing relief distributions a week after Pablo hit the

Southern Philippines. 2,000 affected children are expected to participate in Child Friendly Space in Compostela Valley and Agusan del Sur in Mindanao. 

A week since Bopha battered Mindanao in Southern Philippines; World Vision speeds up relief operations particularly in Compostela Valley and Agusan del Sur, two of the

hardest-hit provinces in Mindanao. Hundreds of displaced families in Compostela Valley are still staying in cramped evacuation centers

After Typhoon Pablo left parts of Mindanao in chaos, World Vision has already distributed relief packs to 2000 families in Compostela Valley.

These packs, which can help sustain a family’s basic need for two weeks include safe drinking water, ready-to-eat food items and rice, blankets, and medicines, among others.

Following the conduct of joint rapid assessments with local disaster authorities,  World Vision shifts gear to bring relief assistance to at least 8,000 families in the typhoon-stricken areas of Compostela

Valley and Agusan del sur.  The humanitarian agency's Mindanao Response Manager Beth Delgado said, "World Vision will initially be providing much needed food and non-food items like blankets