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Residents try to move to safer ground as floodwaters rise in Barangay Navotas East, Navotas City, on July 24, 2025. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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HABAGAT FLOODING- NAVOTAS

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/175343095185620250724-navotas-flooding-JC0654.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Residents try to move to safer ground as floodwaters rise in Barangay Navotas East, Navotas City, on July 24, 2025. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — The US government on Friday announced that about P13.8 million will be given to a UN agency to &quot;augment the Philippine government’s life-saving&quot; response to recent flooding due to storms and enhanced habagat.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/7/25/25-dead-due-to-tropical-cyclones-habagat-ndrrmc-0913">25 dead due to tropical cyclones, habagat: NDRRMC</a></div><p>In a statement, the US Embassy in the Philippines said the funding will be coursed through the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).</p><p>&quot;This funding, provided through the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, will support government relief operations by facilitating the transport of food to flood-affected communities in Metro Manila, Northern and Central Luzon, and Calabarzon,&quot; the Embassy said.</p><p>Monsoon rains driven by a string of tropical cyclones have left at least 25 people dead since last week, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said Friday. </p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/regions/2025/7/25/emong-unleashes-floods-landslides-in-northern-luzon-1136">Emong unleashes floods, landslides in northern Luzon</a></div><p>The weather disturbances, which spawned floods and landslides, affected some 3.8 million people, with 167,000 of them seeking shelter at evacuation centers.</p><p>Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Gibo Teodoro said it would seek US&#x27; help to mobilize some of the 3 million relief packs that are prepositioned in Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) sites.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/7/23/ph-seeks-us-help-to-dispatch-3-million-relief-packs-prepositioned-in-edca-sites-1502">PH seeks US help to dispatch 3 million relief packs prepositioned in EDCA sites</a></div><p>The US Embassy said they are deeply concerned by the effects of the weather disturbances.</p><p>“We are tracking the devastation caused by the storms and floods and are deeply concerned for all those affected... The U.S. Embassy’s interagency team is coordinating closely with the Philippine government and the WFP to ensure aid reaches those in need,” US Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson said. <strong>—With reports from Agence France-Presse</strong></p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wQ7dgJoTtgU?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>"This funding will support government relief operations by facilitating the transport of food to flood-affected communities in Metro Manila, Northern and Central Luzon, and Calabarzon," the US Embassy said.</p>

"This funding will support government relief operations by facilitating the transport of food to flood-affected communities in Metro Manila, Northern and Central Luzon, and Calabarzon," the US Embassy said.

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