A United Nations development official said that the agency would need additional $38-million fund "to carry out programs in the Philippines" that will aid Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) victims and rehabilitate the Visayas region for the whole year of 2014.
In a press briefing in New York on Monday (Tuesday in Manila), Haoliang Xu, assistant administrator and director of asian bureau of UN Development Program (UNDP), said that the seeking of funds will be for the continuation of the UN programs "for the next 12 months" for typhoon victims and rehabilitation in the country.
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