SAF Sends Humanitarian Relief Supplies to the Philippines

SAF personnel unloading relief supplies from an RSAF C-130 aircraft at Tacloban.

To assist those affected by Typhoon Haiyan, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) is sending $120,000 worth of relief supplies, which includes tents, groundsheets, medical supplies, and blankets, to the Philippines. These supplies will be transported by C-130 aircraft from the Republic of Singapore Air Force over two tranches. The first tranche of supplies was handed over by Singapore's Defence Attaché to the Philippines, Colonel Luis Phay, to Assistant Secretary of the Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development, Camilo G. Gudmalinin, in Tacloban this morning. The C-130 aircraft also evacuated civilians from Tacloban to Manila before returning to Singapore.

These relief supplies are in addition to the S$200,000 contribution from the Singapore Government through the Singapore Red Cross to support the relief efforts in the Philippines.

Civilians being evacuated from Tacloban to Manila by an RSAF C-130 aircraft.