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(Photo courtesy of Japan Information and Culture Center, Japanese, Embassy of Japan) MANILA - The Japanese Embassy in Manila turned over on Wednesday the Tokyo-funded potable water system in Natonin, Mountain Province. The project was approved in 2017 and is part of Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) through the Grant Assistance for Grass-roots Human Security Projects (GGP) "Many residents in Brgy. Banawel, Natonin live remotely from available water sources. It takes roughly three hours a day to fetch water from the nearby spring source. During the dry season when communal water sources dry up, the residents would have no other recourse but to use water from an agricultural irrigation canal, which posed grave health concerns," the Embassy said. To address this issue, the Embassy provided a grant amounting to USD79,771 (approximately PHP4 million) to the local government unit of Natonin. The grant covered the construction of a level 2 water system in Barangay Ba ....
(File photo) MANILA - The United States government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional PHP51.1 million to help transport relief supplies to communities affected by Typhoon Odette. This fresh aid brings the total US assistance to more than PHP1.08 billion, the US Embassy in Manila said Thursday. "As friends, partners, and allies, we will continue to support the Philippines in its post-typhoon recovery," US Embassy Charge d'Affaires ad interim Heather Variava said. "This additional assistance will help deliver food and other essential items to communities devastated by the typhoon." In coordination with the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), USAID and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will deploy an additional 300 trucks to transport food and other supplies to typhoon-affected areas. This partnership will also support OCD in delivering relief supplies to remote municipalities and barangays. Sarah Charles ....