Residents scramble to grab relief goods given by a passing citizen at a town near Taal volcano, Tagaytay, Cavite province, southern Philippines on Sunday Jan.19, 2020. Many poor families living near Taal volcano have been affected due to loss of income after business closures in the area, Philippine officials said Sunday the government will no longer allow villagers to return to a crater-studded island where an erupting Taal volcano lies, warning that living there would be "like having a gun pointed at you." (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Navotas local government sent 1,600 hygiene kits, 300 sacks of rice and P300,000 worth of medicines to evacuees who were displaced by the eruption of Taal Volcano.
The hygiene kit included a 16-liter pail with toothbrush and toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, bath soap and detergent bar, diaper and sanitary napkins, bath and hand towels, blankets and underwear for men and women.
Navotas Mayor Toby Tiangco earlier asked residents to donate items needed by evacuees like drinking water, diapers and medicines. —Nikka G. Valenzuela
