Date: 26 September 2009
Category: 2 (Tropical Cyclone)
Typhoon Ketsana was the second most devastating tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, bringing 455mm of rain to the Philippines over a 24 hour period on September 26, before moving on to hit Vietnam in the mid-afternoon of September 29, south of Danang. The typhoon claimed 163 lives in Vietnam, and displaced countless more.
Partner(s): Gawad Kalinga, Canossian Sisters, Heritage Hotel, Centre for Water Resources Conservation and Development (WARECOD)
How we helped:
- Distributed 1,450kg of food supplies worth S$61,476
- Implemented community disaster preparedness and mitigation programmes valued at S$81,923
- Installed a community water filtration system
- Deployed seven iWater portable water filtration systems
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