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The Philippine government is beefing up emergency employment program to help alleviate the plight of workers displaced by typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda. a government official said Sunday.
The emergency employment program aims at helping disaster- stricken families to rebuild their lives by providing them with better access to sustainable income sources, Presidential Communications Operation Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said.
He said some 3,000 residents from 22 villages in worst-hit Tacloban city and 70 villages in Ormoc, another seriously affected city in Leyte province, would benefit from the employment project which include the cash-for-work and food-for-work programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and Department of Agriculture.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) is also helping the government in organizing emergency employment program to help the Filipinos who lost their livelihoods due to the devastation brought by Yolanda.
Meanhile, the Presidential Communications Operation Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in an interview at a weekend radio program that the country had started implementing its comprehensive long-term plan and strategy for climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Coloma said one specific campaign under the climate change adaptation and mitigation program is the reduction of the gas emission in the country that adds to pollution.
The recent storm surge that accompanied typhoon Yolanda and devastated several provinces in the Philippines is being blamed on climate change.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III instructed Environment Secretary Ramon Paje to devise a comprehensive environment protection program to minimize the impact of storm surges, flooding and calamities following the devastation of Yolanda.
Aquino also ordered Paje to impose a rule prohibiting building commercial and residential structures along the seashore, and to ensure the immediate planting of mangrove, which serves as a natural protection against big waves, Coloma said.
