The Philippines needs an extra $47 million to help more than half a million displaced people recover from a killer typhoon last year and ongoing guerrilla activity, the United Nations (UN) and other aid donors said on Thursday.
About 530,000 people urgently need permanent shelters and emergency jobs, while debris from in December’s Typhoon Pablo (Bopha) still has to be cleared, said David Carden of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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