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US to provide additional $1.5-M humanitarian aid to PH after typhoons

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Dennis Gasgonia

ABS-CBN News

MANILA — The US government is providing an additional $1.5 million in emergency life-saving assistance to the Philippines following the damage inflicted by typhoons in the country. US Ambassador MaryKay Carlson announced this during her visit to Clark Air Force Base that highlighted the country&#x27;s humanitarian assistance and disaster response (HADR) through the the shipment of thousands of family food packs (FFPs) to typhoon-affected areas. She was welcomed by Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro. The engagement brought together frontline personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), and the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), who have been working closely to sustain relief deliveries to Catanduanes and other hard-hit communities.<div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/9/24/marcos-satisfied-with-typhoon-preps-teodoro-2118">Marcos ‘satisfied’ with typhoon preps: Teodoro</a></div>The US ambassador announced the added aid while commending the Philippines’ proactive disaster preparedness.The assistance brought total US support for the response to $2.5 million. “Your dedication, teamwork, and compassion embody the very best of what partnership represents,” she said.As of November 15, 2025, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has allocated 10,000 family food packs (100 pallets) for Catanduanes, with 85 pallets (8,500 FFPs) already delivered to Virac. Tthe remaining 15 pallets (1,500 FFPs) are en route and expected to arrive shortly.During the visit, Teodoro and Carlson met with Philippine and US service members involved in staging, loading, and transporting the relief goods. They also inspected an opened family food pack to review its contents and conducted a cabin tour of a US C-130 aircraft to observe its capacity for rapid humanitarian lift.“I believe that the alliance between the United States and the Philippines becomes stronger every time we are tested together,” said Teodoro. <div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/11/9/palace-declares-1-year-state-of-national-calamity-to-speed-up-disaster-response-after-tino-2348">Palace declares 1-year state of national calamity to speed up disaster response after &#x27;Tino&#x27; </a> </div>“And be it in crises, in helping people, or in asserting the rule of international law, we go through these trials together daily. And the daily interaction only makes our people-to-people ties much, much stronger.”“It’s the unquantifiables that are more important,” said Secretary Teodoro. “The commitment, the reassurance that we both give each other, the convergence, at the end of the day – as we were both together on Veterans Day – it&#x27;s about helping those who are defenseless, those who need help, and those who are yet to be born.”

The US government is providing an additional $1.5 million in emergency life-saving assistance to the Philippines following the damage inflicted by typhoons in the country.

The US government is providing an additional $1.5 million in emergency life-saving assistance to the Philippines following the damage inflicted by typhoons in the country.