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Task Force Paglig-on chief Baltazar Tribunalo yesterday welcomed rehabilitation czar Panfilo Lacson’s admission that Kinatarcan island in north Cebu was overlooked in the governnment’s Comprehensive Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan. He said it helps focus attention on other…
A relocation site in Sta. Fe town in Bantayan Island is using solar power to light up newly built housing units for supertyphoon Yolanda survivors. The 216 houses built by Habitat for Humanity are equipped with modular…
‘ISLAND LEFT OUT’ An island inhabited by around 4,000 persons, located in between the northern tip of the island of Cebu and Bantayan Island has been overlooked by the national government when they prepared the Comprehensive Rehabilitation…
Sta. Fe, Bantayan Island—With government’s emergency shelter aid still unreleased a year after supertyphoon Yolanda (Haiyan), survivors in this town turned to loan sharks to fund the repair of their homes. Nearly half of the 5,000 affected…
A year after they lost their home to supertyphoon Yolanda, a couple from San Remigio town in northern Cebu finally got a new roof over their head. The house of Ronald Mayol and Elizabeth Martunillas in barangay…
When 44-year-old Lilia Tipait lost her seaside home in barangay Polambato, Bogo City to supertyphoon Yolanda last year, she almost lost all hope for a good future. “I was so devastated. I thought, perhaps, we won´t…
Vice President Jejomar Binay’s refusal to appear in last Thursday’s Senate blue ribbon committee hearing may or may not plunge his popularity to record low levels. But it will send the wrong signal to the public which…
Survivors of supertyphoon Yolanda yesterday shed tears in celebration of life as they descended on mass graves to mark one year since the storm took away their loved ones and devastated much of central Philippines. But even…
Storm refuge in Cebu A playhouse will be set up again in barangay Tinago’s sports complex on Nov. 13 just like the one used for young evacuees of typhoon Yolanda a year ago. Tinago barangay captain Joel…
Bantayan storm survivors seek strength, release of shelter aid Sta. Fe, Bantayan – Bells pealed. Sirens and horn blasts filled the air in the early morning. At exactly 8 a.m., people gathered at the town plaza shouted,…
Four months after she lost her husband and home to supertyphoon Yolanda’s fury, Agnes Bacsal gave birth to their sixth child — a sprightly boy, whose presence has eased the family’s pain. Other survivors, like fisherman Ben…
It’s officially been a year since Yolanda barreled its way through most of Central Visayas including northern Cebu and devastated everything in its path, claiming thousands of lives, destroying homes and sources of livelihood. It drove home…
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