The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has adjusted the amount of food rations included in the food packs being distributed to the families displaced by Typhoon Pablo in the three Davao provinces to lengthen the food supply.
“We have increased the number of kilos of rice in the food packs, from three kilos of rice good for two to three days, to 10 kilos of rice which is good for three to five days,” DSWD 11 social welfare officer Pedrita Dimakiling said Friday.
The number of food items in the packs has been increased, she said, so that the food supply would last for a few more days without the necessity of distributing the food packs on a daily basis.
Dimakiling said that aside from 10 kilos of rice, the food packs now contain two cans of beef loaf, four cans of sardines, six packs of noodles and 6 packs of coffee.
She said DSWD teams are set to distribute the food packs in Compostela Valley yesterday (Friday), to Davao Oriental on Saturday, Compostela Valley again on Sunday and then Davao del Norte on Monday.
DSWD has established a system of distribution that will help them determine the recipients of the food packs. “We have already distributed the family access cards, one for each displaced family,” she added.
Dimakiling said that every time a family receives a food pack, the access card is signed by the recipient.
DSWD also provides financial assistance for the typhoon victims amounting to P10,000 per deceased person and P5 to P10 thousand for very injured individual. [LAC]
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