{"id":14445,"date":"2013-12-04T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T01:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?post_type=media-center&#038;p=14445"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:47:36","slug":"chris-palusky-testifies-us-congress-typhoon-haiyan-relief","status":"publish","type":"media-center","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/about-us\/media-center\/chris-palusky-testifies-us-congress-typhoon-haiyan-relief","title":{"rendered":"Chris Palusky testifies before U.S. Congress on Typhoon Haiyan relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&rdquo;1\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-push-8&Prime;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-highlights field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<ul>\n<li>World Vision&rsquo;s senior director for Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs, Chris Palusky, testifies before congress about the humanitarian response in the Philippines.<\/li>\n<li>Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on November 8, displacing nearly 4 million people and killing more than 5,500.<\/li>\n<li>As of December 3, World Vision had provided food, hygiene kits, emergency shelter, Child Friendly Spaces, and other relief supplies to more than 70,000 people in Leyte, Samar, Northern Cebu, and Panay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;2\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-pull-4&Prime;]<style>.owl-ca-item { padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px; }.owl-ca-prev::before, .owl-ca-next::before { color: #dd9933 !important; font-size: 40px!important; }.owl-ca-prev:hover.owl-ca-prev::before, .owl-ca-next:hover.owl-ca-next::before { color: #869791!important; }<\/style><\/p><div id=\"carousel-anything-1\" class=\"carousel-anything-container owl-ca-carousel has-arrows\" data-items=\"1\" data-totalitems=\"1\" data-scroll_per_page=\"\" data-autoplay=\"5000\" data-items-tablet=\"1\" data-items-mobile=\"1\" data-stop-on-hover=\"\" data-speed-scroll=\"800\" data-speed-rewind=\"1000\" data-thumbnails=\"arrows\" data-thumbnail-numbers=\"\" data-navigation=\"true\" data-touchdrag=\"false\" data-keyboard=\"false\" data-rtl=\"false\" data-start=\"0\">[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=&rdquo;14446&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo; add_caption=&rdquo;yes&rdquo; alignment=&rdquo;center&rdquo;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]<\/div>[vc_column_text]Listen as World Vision&rsquo;s Senior Director for Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs, <a href=\"\/about-us\/press-center\/media-contacts\/chris-palusky\" data-cke-saved-href=\"\/about-us\/press-center\/media-contacts\/chris-palusky\">Chris Palusky<\/a>, testifies before Congress on December 3, 2013 about the humanitarian response to <a href=\"\/about-us\/press-center\/super-typhoon-haiyan\" data-cke-saved-href=\"\/about-us\/press-center\/super-typhoon-haiyan\">Typhoon Haiyan<\/a> in the Philippines. The super storm struck the Philippines on November 8, displacing nearly 4 million people and killing more than 5,500.&nbsp;As of December 3, World Vision had provided food, hygiene kits, emergency shelter, <a href=\"\/press-release\/world-vision-opens-its-first-child-friendly-spaces-400-children-philippines\" data-cke-saved-href=\"\/press-release\/world-vision-opens-its-first-child-friendly-spaces-400-children-philippines\">Child Friendly Spaces<\/a>, and other relief supplies to more than 70,000 people in Leyte, Samar, Northern Cebu, and Panay. Read Chris&rsquo; <a href=\"\/resources.nsf\/main\/press-testimony\/%24file\/20131203_Written-Testimony_Chris-Palusky_Philippines_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"\/resources.nsf\/main\/press-testimony\/$file\/20131203_Written-Testimony_Chris-Palusky_Philippines_Final.pdf\">full testimony to Congress<\/a> (PDF).[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>About <\/strong><a href=\"\/\"><strong>World Vision<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong><br>\nWorld Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization conducting relief, development, and advocacy activities in its work with children, families, and their communities in nearly 100 countries to help them reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.&nbsp;For more information, please visit <a href=\"\/about-us\/media-center\/\">www.WorldVision.org\/media-center\/<\/a>&nbsp;or on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldVisionUSA\" target=\"_blank\">@WorldVisionUSA<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14446,"template":"","leader":[],"class_list":["post-14445","media-center","type-media-center","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issues-disaster-relief","media-center-resource-press-release","press-issue-super-typhoon-halyan","programs-advocate-network","regions-philippines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Chris Palusky testifies before U.S. Congress on Typhoon Haiyan relief | World Vision<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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