Manila: International non-government organisation Action Against Hunger (ACF) said it will continue with its relief work in the Philippines despite the recent assassination of one of its executives in the country.
“We are saddened the latest incident involving one of our workers, Andrew Tenefrancia on Thursday night,” the source from ACF, who requested that her name be not mentioned, told Gulf News in an interview Sunday.
Andrew Tenefrancia, 24, of Estancia, Iloilo City was shot and killed in his hometown Thursday afternoon by two assailants riding piggyback in a motorcycle. Reports said Tenefrancia, who had worked for several months with ACF or Action Contre Faim and had just been promoted to the rank of manager of a fleet of trucks delivering relief to area affected by typhoon Haiyan when he was assassinated.
“We are closely working with authorities in Iloilo” on the matter, the source from ACF said.
ACF had been involved in interventions to address hunger in the Philippines since 2000. In 2013, it was among the number of NGOs that responded to the country’s call for assistance from the international community in the aftermath of typhoon Haiyan (known in the Philippines as “Yolanda”).
ACF’s work in the Philippines spanned more than a decade. Aside from providing post-natural disaster relief work, it was among the number of international NGOs that responded to meeting the needs of the populations displaced by the conflict between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
“Our work in the Philippines will continue despite the incident (killing of Tenefrancia),” the ACF source said.
