Manila, Sept. 24 -- The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is once again calling for volunteers to help in the production of family food packs (FFPs) at the Luzon Disaster Resource Center (LDRC), formerly the National Resource Operations Center (NROC), in Pasay City for calamity-stricken communities.

"The help of volunteers will go a long way in our goal to ensure that sufficient FFPs are in store and can immediately be deployed for prepositioning before a typhoon strikes. We are currently in a season where typhoons enter our country almost at the same time, so we must always be prepared," Assistant Secretary Irene Dumlao of the DSWD's Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) said in a statement on Wednesday.

The DSW...