Typhoon Aid Appeal Amid Urgent Relief Effort

Aid agencies have issued a plea for donations to help the millions of people affected by the catastrophic Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Britain will contribute a total of £10m to the relief effort and send Royal Navy warship HMS Daring to provide humanitarian assistance.

Prime Minister David Cameron also said a RAF C-17 aircraft would be deployed, with equipment including forklift trucks, temporary shelters, water purification tablets and blankets on board.

International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the scenes of devastation wrought by the typhoon were "shocking in their scale".

"We know that the survivors, especially vulnerable children and women, now face a grim and uncertain future," she said.

Many of those affected by the disaster need injuries treated

"Britain is determined to stand by the Philippines and we have now pledged a total of £10m to get 800,000 people the food."

The United States is giving £12m and sending marines and equipment to help, while Australia will contribute £6m.

Japan is sending a 25-member relief team of mostly medical staff, while even Vietnam - itself expected to be hit by the storm - has donated £63,000 and said it "stands by the Philippine people in this difficult situation".

The United Nations said relief teams were on the ground in some of the affected areas, helping some 660,000 displaced survivors.

Residents clear a road of a fallen electrics post in Daanbantayan

John Ging, from the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said: "On this occasion we don't need very much assessment; we know precisely what the needs are when you look at the scale of the devastation."

He said the two main priorities are to feed survivors and to bury the thousands of dead - which he said was urgent in order to avoid outbreaks of "public health disasters."

Aid organisations warned they were being hampered by widespread devastation and Save the Children said it was helping survivors who were having to cope with the "worst possible conditions".

Lynette Lim of the charity said: "We are working round the clock to offer the basic life essentials to the 4.3 million people we estimate are affected.

"We are witnessing the complete devastation of a city. In Tacloban everything is flattened. Bodies litter the street, many, many of which are children. From what I saw, two out of every five bodies was that of a child.

"Children are particularly vulnerable in disasters. We fear for how many children have been washed away in floods, crushed under falling buildings and injured by flying debris. Many are separated from their families amid the devastation, and all are in desperate need of food, water and shelter."

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