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UN: More Funds Needed to Provide Aid to Philippines

The U.N. says it has raised just over a third of the money it needs to provide emergency aid in the typhoon-hit central Philippines. Orla Fagan, of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Philippines, told VOA it will take a "concerted effort" to reach the world body's fundraising goal. "It is 37 percent funded and 63 percent unmet. And that's for the immediate life-saving [needs], and has nothing to do with the long term...

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