A round up of the aid pledges to the Philippines

Reuters Alert Net has a complete breakdown of all of the pledges in aid that have been promised to the Philippines. The United Nations asked the international community for 75 million dollars to aid the typhoon hit country. Only 17 million has been pledged so far.

Our snippet only contains some of the "big" countries, a complete list can be found here.

EUROPEAN UNION

- The European Union and some member-states, including Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland, have contributed a total of $5.6 million.

UNITED NATIONS

The World Food Programme has committed to deliver about $500,000 worth of rice and brought in 3 helicopters and 7 boats to help deliver food and relief materials to flooded areas.

The World Health Organisation has promised $42,000 in relief funds while UNICEF has initially provided $226,350 in food and relief materials.

ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

- $3 million in cash donation

UNITED STATES

- $100,000 in relief efforts. Jerry cans and hygiene kits worth $400,000 were being brought by chartered flight last week. The U.S. military has deployed two ships, 11 heavy-lift helicopters and engineering equipment to help in the clean up effort.

CHINA

- $140,000 in donations, including contributions from Huawei Corporation.

JAPAN

- $220,000 worth of relief goods, including thousands of blankets and sleeping bags, waters tanks and water purifiers.