Devastated families affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines are still desperate for basic supplies like food and water, says international aid agency Oxfam, which plans to reach 100,000 people in the first phase of crisis.
Oxfam Australia chief executive Helen Szoke was in Daanbantayan in Northern Cebu on Saturday to hand out basic essentials like food and water.
"It's one of the very poor areas," Dr Szoke told AAP by phone.
"A lot of the people here are small scale producers or labourers or farmers.
"We are now driving through a little village which is just a mess of fallen electric poles, wires draped over buildings, broken trees, lots of rubble."
Dr Szoke said she was in the town of Paypay in northern Cebu on Friday where she met a woman called Annie.
Annie, who had three children - an eight-month-old boy and two girls aged three and two - had lost her house in the typhoon.
"We asked Annie what she needed and she said simply, 'everything'. Everything had gone," Dr Szoke said.
"Annie told us: 'After the typhoon, we feel aftershock. I don't know how to react, how to overcome this kind of damage'."
Dr Szoke said there was a lot of work to be done with the mass clean-up now underway.
Oxfam, which plans to reach 100,000 people in the first phase of crisis, said it has delivered sanitation kits to 10,000 people this week alone.
A cargo with 16 tonnes of aid worth $US200,000 ($A215,065) including water and sanitation equipment is arriving into the country on Saturday, for immediate distribution, it said.
Australia has pledged a further $20 million in aid to the typhoon-ravaged Philippines.
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