PHILIPPINES/ IOM TYPHOON UPDATE

As the emergency phase in the relief effort following typhoon Haiyan moves into early recovery, International Organization for Migrations (IOM) is intensifying its efforts to provide improved shelter for the hundreds of thousands left homeless in Central Philippines. On Friday, the government of the Philippines said that the number of people dead following one of the world's strongest typhoons has risen over 6,000. IOM

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:37
• Production Date: 14 December 2013
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION - IOM
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCIES
• Geographic Subject: PHILIPPINES
• MAMS Id: U131214a

Description

STORY: PHILIPPINES/ TYPHOON UPDATE IOM
TRT: 3.37
SOURCE: IOM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ TAGALOG/ NATS

DATELINE: 2 DECEMBER 2013 TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES

Shotlist

1. Various shots, construction work
2. SOUNDBITE (English), Joe Lowry, IOM Spokesperson
“Tacloban city is recovering from the devastation of typhoon Haiyan. Everywhere you look people are rebuilding, the shops are opening again. But there is so much work to be done. The city is completely shattered by this huge, huge storm. The number one priority for us and all aid agencies and the government is to get people into better shelters, where they can carry on with their lives, send their kids to schools, start working again. We also have to bare in mind – outside of the city even 15, 20 kilometers away there are places that haven’t yet received sufficient aid and we have to now redouble our efforts to make sure that people outside of the city as well as inside the city get the same amount of aid and they can start recovering and get on with their lives.”
3. Various shots, street shots of Tacloban
4. Med shot, tilt up, mother with kids in shelter
5. Med shot, woman with a baby
6. Close up, pan left, woman to her baby
7. Close up, woman nursing the baby
8. Close up, mother’s and baby’s hands
9. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog), Marike Malate, 18, widowed during typhoon Haiyan
“I named my baby Yolanda because of the typhoon's painful memories and painful experience and for remembrance"
10. Various shots, aid distribution
11. Various shots, street sellers
12. Wide shot, destroyed part of the city
13. Wide shot, pan right, destruction

Storyline

As the emergency phase in the relief effort following typhoon Haiyan moves into early recovery, International Organization for Migrations (IOM) is intensifying its efforts to provide improved shelter for the hundreds of thousands left homeless in Central Philippines.

Although the number of people living in community centres or sharing with friends and relatives is slowly decreasing the needs are still immense. Over a million homes are estimated to have been damaged, leaving four million people displaced.

IOM’s Spokesperson, Joe Lowry said that the number one priority for everyone should be to get people in better shelters.

“We also have to bare in mind that outside of the city, even 15, 20 kilometres away there are places that haven’t yet received sufficient aid and we have to now redouble our efforts to make sure that people outside of the city as well as inside the city get the same amount of aid and they can start recovering and get on with their lives.” – said Lowry.

Philippine’s government together with aid agencies have put in place a logistics chain and the first sets of corrugated iron sheeting have arrived in the city of Tacloban, together with training material on how to build back safer.

In total, 18,000 corrugated iron sheets, accompanied by tool kits (hammers, saws, crowbars, shovels and fixing kits) is on its way to Tacloban, and it will be distributed to 1,700 families. Another 100,000 sheets are expected soon.

Meanwhile, people are continuing with their lives anyway they can. 18 year old Marike Malate has lost her husband during the storm. Very next day, she gave a birth to a baby girl. She decided to call her Yollanda, which is the local name of the typhoon Haiyan in Philippines.

“I named my baby Yolanda because of the typhoon's painful memories and painful experience and for remembrance"- she explained.

In the coming days the IOM will distribute iron sheets, blankets, tools, nails, ropes, tarpaulins, jerry cans, buckets, mats, bamboos, solar lamps and kitchen sets via its operational hubs in Tacloban, Cebu, Roxas, Ormoc and Guiuan, to 50,000 families. Solar lamps, blankets and jerry cans were distributed to over 230 families in one of the poorest parts of Tacloban.

Meanwhile, 225 displaced sites have been surveyed by IOM teams, building up a detailed picture of the needs, conditions and trends across a wide area of Haiyan’s path.