IOM, the UN Migration Agency, with support from the Embassy of New Zealand in the Philippines, handed over a total of 2,500 sleeping kits and 650 modular tents to Ministry of Social Services and Development of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and to the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Region 9. So far, 2,050 kits and 450 tents have been given to returnees from Sabah while the remaining will continue to be distributed as more arrive in the island provinces.
IOM provides sleeping kits and tents for Sabah returnees
IOM works with BARMM and DSWD to assist returnees from Sabah
Photo | IOM
UN entities involved in this initiative
IOM
International Organization for Migration
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