Ms Jeannie McCann:

As stated earlier, we worked in Haiti for 25 years before the earthquake and we continue to work there. We are committed to helping to rebuild the country. Equally, we have been working in the Philippines for 25 years. Before Typhoon Haiyan hit, we had served 26,000 families through disaster response and mitigation alone. We are using our pathways-to-permanence housing model in the Philippines. We have already distributed 30,000 emergency shelter kits to families affected by Typhoon Haiyan. We need to move towards more permanent solutions and we recently secured land from the Filipino Government in order that we might start building. Just last week we broke ground on the first housing projects relating to this land. The houses that are going to be constructed there will be disaster resilient. As a testament to how disaster-resilient they are, similar houses were located in areas where the typhoon hit and none was destroyed or damaged.