We wish we could offer them better accommodations.
“As survivors fleeing the typhoon-battered Visayas region continued to arrive at Metro Manila airports, the Pasay City government is planning to provide them with temporary shelters until they are fetched by relatives or find more permanent lodgings, ” report Jaymee T. Gamil and Maricar B. Brizuela in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Based on the instructions of Mayor Antonio Calixto and the Department of Interior and Local Government, the two “tent city” locations are the Villamor Air Base Elementary School and the 2,000-square meter lot near Tramo, where the Corazon Aquino High School is currently being constructed.
Pasay City administrator Dennis Bernard Acorda revealed that they want the “tent cities” to be set up by Monday, Nov 18.
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