20/11/2014
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Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva is back in Tacloban where, seven months ago, the world's most powerful typhoon ever recorded making landfall devastated a large region of the Philippines.
The Commissioner is seeing for herself the progress made in Tacloban's recovery, meeting local mayors and visiting an EU project for children. She will be joined by representatives of the Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM).
Tomorrow, together with her Filipino hosts, Commissioner Georgieva will open and deliver an address at the ASEM Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management. There, she will also meet with the President of the Philippines, Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III.
Commissioner Georgieva was in Tacloban a few days after the typhoon struck there. In Europe the request for assistance for post-Yolanda reconstruction programmes has been received loud and clear. Funds mobilised to assist the affected communities by the European Union, its member states and private European donations now total €740 million.
The EU also assisted the population affected by the earthquake in Bohol (€2.5 million), by typhoon Pablo (€6.2 Million) and those displaced in Zamboanga (€0.3 million).
