The International Labor Organization (ILO) has stepped up emergency employment and livelihood initiatives in the bid to rebuild the lives of workers displaced by Super Typhoon Yolanda.

“Since Haiyan struck on 8 November, the ILO supported the Department of Labor and Employment in creating over 20,000 jobs under the emergency employment program. We reached out to 100,000 people during the initial phase in 2013 to help improve their living and working conditions,” Lawrence Jeff Johnson, ILO Philippines country director said in a statement.

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