Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura congratulates Christian Aid Country Director Daphne Dajoras Villanueva after signing the grant contract for The Project for Providing Emergency Relief Assistance to Tropical Storm Victims in Metro Manila and Rizal Province , on October 16, 2009 at the Embassy of Japan. Photo also shows other Embassy's officials and staff of Christian Aid. |
Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura and the Christian Aid Country Director Daphne Dajoras Villanueva signed the grant contract for “The Project for Providing Emergency Relief Assistance to Tropical Storm Victims in Metro Manila and Rizal Province” at the Embassy of Japan on October 16, 2009.
In this project funded by the Government of Japan, relief goods including packs of food and non-food items will be distributed. The total amount is US$92,780 (approximately 4.4 million pesos). The beneficiaries are 3,200 households or approximately 19,000 people in Barangay Bagong Silangan, Quezon City and three villages in the Municipality of Montalban , Rizal Province , who have been affected by Tropical Storm Ondoy.
According to the NDCC report on October 13, more than 800,000 families were affected by the floodwaters and mudslides. 337 people were killed and 37 people are still missing. In addition, 45,129 families are still in evacuation centers, which are until now dependent of assistance from donors for their daily necessities.
It is under these circumstances that the Christian Aid, a humanitarian organization, has sought the assistance of the Embassy of Japan to provide the relief items for the people in the severely damaged areas.
Japan already delivered the emergency relief goods amounting to approximately 220,000 US dollars (approximately 10 million pesos) to the Philippine Government on September 30. In addition, it was announced on October 9 that Japan decided to provide food assistance amounting to 4.5 million US dollars (approximately 210 million pesos) through the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), as a response to the UN Flash Appeal announced on October 3. This Japanese food assistance (4.5 million US dollars) accounts for approximately 17% of the funding requirements for the WFP initiative (about 26.4 million US dollars) announced in the appeal. Moreover, Japan Platform (JPF) has decided to contribute up to 100 million yen (approximately 50 million pesos), of which the Government of Japan covers a substantial part, to Japanese NGO's relief and medical missions. JPF, a humanitarian aid organization to help with emergencies outside Japan , comprises Japanese NGOs, as well as commercial and government institutions. To date, seven JPF member-NGOs have dispatched their staff members to various areas affected by the calamity.
The project signed with the Christian Aid is funded through the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP). The GGP was launched in the Philippines in 1989 for the purpose of reducing poverty and helping various communities engage in grassroots activities. Since then, more than 400 small-scale grassroots projects amounting to a total of 238 m illion y en (approximately 2.1 m illion US dollars ) have been implemented by NGOs, local g overnment u nits (LGU), and other non-profit organizations.
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