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Help for calamity-stricken provinces sought from better-off LGUs

With billions of pesos worth of crop, properties and infrastructure facilities severely damaged and thousands of people displaced in the aftermath of typhoon Frank, the League of Provinces of the Philippines is calling on the better-off provinces to help out disaster-stricken LGUs.

League president and Misamis Occidental Gov. Loreto Leo S. Ocampos issued last July 1, Memorandum Circular No. 2008-013 calling on the more fortunate member-provinces to provide financial assistance to the provinces that were hardest hit by Typhoon Frank.

The latest report released by the National Disaster Coordinating Council indicates that at least 49 provinces were affected by typhoon Frank which brought with it strong winds and incessant rains.

The same report shows that damage to agriculture was estimated at P7.531 billion, while damage to infrastructure was pegged at close to P3.205 billion.

According to the NDCC, ten provinces have already been declared under a state of calamity, these are: Albay, Antique, Iloilo, Aklan, Capiz, Romblon, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat, North Cotabato and Marinduque.

Gov. Ocampos said that the provision of shelter, the outbreak of water-borne diseases and lack of food and safe drinking water due to the inaccessibility of some areas are further compounding the problem of our colleagues in the affected areas.

Relative to this, he called on his colleagues from better-off provinces to either send their financial assistance directly to the affected province of their choice or course it through the LPP National Secretariat, which is coordinating the League efforts in this undertaking. (AJSanchez).

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