The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office VII (DSWD-7) provides assistance to locally stranded individuals (LSIs) due to Tropical Storm Paeng on October 29, 2022.

DSWD Field Office VII staff provides hot meals for the 250 stranded individuals in Cebu City.

DSWD Field Office VII’s Crisis Intervention Section (CIS) provided hot meals for breakfast for the 250 stranded individuals in Cebu City port. The Department also coordinated with the Cebu City government for the provision of food, water, sleeping kits, and tents. The stranded individuals were temporarily sheltered at the Cebu City Sports Center.

DSWD-7 also rounded up in the Cebu City port area and found 54 truck drivers and helpers, who were also provided with hot meals.

The stranded individuals were supposed to travel to their respective destinations via boat trips, but those were canceled due to the effects of the tropical storm.

Furthermore, the Department also provided resource augmentation to disaster-affected local government units (LGUs) in the Central Visayas region.

As of October 29, 2022, the DSWD-7 provided 69 family food packs to the municipality of Dumanjug, Cebu, 205 family food packs to Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, and 30 modular tents to Talisay City, Cebu.

Other LGUs also requested family food packs, which include Talisay City and Poro in Cebu; Bais City and Siaton in Negros Oriental; and Calape in Bohol.

The DSWD’s family food pack contains six (6) kilos of rice, 10 canned goods, five (5) sachets of coffee, and five (5) sachets of energy drinks. This is good for three days and five family members.

Currently, the DSWD-7 continues to repack family food packs to ensure an adequate supply of relief goods to be distributed to affected LGUs in the region. ###

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