In the Philippines, the death toll from Typhoon Bopha has climbed above 700, and hundreds
are still missing, many of them fishermen feared lost at sea. Over 100,000 are homeless,
and hundreds of people are being treated for injuries sustained during the storm.
The
International Committee of the Red Cross, working together with the Philippine Red
Cross, is bringing relief to thousands of survivors in the south of the country, which
was hit first and hardest by the typhoon when it made landfall on December 4th.
“There’s
nothing left in some places. We tried to find evacuation centres, but many of them
had collapsed,” says Wilson Mondal, an ICRC emergency team member who was deployed
to an area where the eye of the typhoon passed. “Some people are just living on the
side of the road. They need everything.”
Listen to our interview
with Cynthia Lee, spokeswoman for the International Committee for the Red Cross in
Manila: