Tacloban City- DSWD Sec. Dinky Soliman Friday, October 31 visits Brgy. 88, 89, 90 in Tacloban City, and engages in a dialogue with barangay officials on the continuous movement of around 300 remaining families in tents, to transitional shelters. By November 8, the remaining 138 families living in tents at Barangay 88 will be “zeroed” as they will be transferred to vacant bunkhouses which were previously occupied by those who were transferred to transitional sites.
In a recent assessment conducted by DSWD-IOM, 371 families have been moved to transitional shelters. So far, there are no more tents in municipalities outside Tacloban City except for Tanauan (already allocated with permanent shelter by Gawad Kalinga) and Palo, which have 51 families and may be covered by the DSWD-IOM shelter assistance partnership.