World Vision began distributing aid to Filipino mudslide survivors Sunday.

As many as 139 people have been confirmed dead and almost 1,000—hundreds of them children—remain missing from the village of Guinsaugon on Leyte island, Philippines.

The Philippine government asked World Vision relief teams for rice, beans, dried fish, water, noodles, mosquito nets, blankets, and mats.

More than 1,300 people from 10 villages in the municipality have been evacuated to 20 centres. And as many as 3,000 more people may need to be evacuated from three nearby mountain villages.

Speaking from the scene of the disaster, Boy Bersales, a disaster management coordinator with World Vision said: "The whole village is under 100 feet of mud. The situation here is physically and emotionally devastating."

Among the hundreds thought to be buried in the mud that slid down Mount Guinsaugon are some 240 children and teachers who were in the village elementary school when the disaster struck around 10 a.m. local time on Friday, February 17. The village was home to 1,420 people and is situated 675 kilometres southeast of Manila.

Two weeks of torrential rains that dumped more than 27 inches of rain combined with illegal logging are thought to have caused the disaster and numerous landslides in the area were reported.

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Updated February 28, 9:30 a.m. EST