Brussels, 23/06/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 23 June, the European Commission adopted a decision to allocate another €4 million in emergency humanitarian aid for the typhoons Ketsana and Parma which devastated parts of the Philippines in autumn 2009.
The aid will be channelled through ECHO and will finance material for transitional shelters, housing repairs, water and sanitation, food and cash for work programs, and basic agricultural inputs to provide the people with the means to...