Typhoon Ketsana

• World Vision provided relief goods for some 20,000 families or 100,000 people in inaccessible areas in Marikina, Pasig, Cainta, and in Rizal province in the Philippines. Non- food items include cooking utensils, mosquito nets, blankets, plastic mats, medicines and educational materials for children.

• World Vision has also set up six Child Friendly Spaces in Cainta, Rizal, Marikina, Pasig and Ultra, which have benefited some 4,000 children.

• In Vietnam, World Vision has provided relief food assistance to some 24,000 people, and plans to continue relief efforts for some 65,000 people in Danang City, Quang Tri, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces till March 2010.

• World Vision is working alongside the government, UN agencies and other international NGOs to meet pressing needs such as food aid and shelter in the hardest hit provinces in all affected countries.

• In the longer term, World Vision aims to help the affected children and families regain normalcy in their lives by helping them rebuild their livelihoods, and will incorporate plans to ensure that schoul children in affected project areas will receive continuity in their schouling as well.