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Humanitarian workers are regularly confronted with difficult choices. As a frontline emergency responder for almost 10 years now, I have been in situations where every decision I made had no easy answers. In emergency response, we had…
Five years after Super Typhoon Yolanda’s trail wrecked Anibong District, the most gravely affected part of Tacloban City, survivors continue to cry for help to get back on their feet. For some children of the district’s Barangay…
AN environmental group called on the government yesterday to resume funding for housing projects for victims displaced by supertyphoon Yolanda five years after it devastated Eastern Visayas. The Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ) converged at the…
FIVE YEARS AFTER Nothing was left except ourselves. How do we begin? Where will I get shelter for my big family. “Hindi dapat matapos sa isang delubyo ang buhay ng tao (A person’s life should not end…
The completion of housing projects in areas hit by Super Typhoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) might take “a little time,” but Malacañang assured the victims that “government is doing its best” to address the issue. Presidential Spokesperson…
Members of the Climate Justice Group in the Philippines condemns the Duterte administration’s decision to stop the release of P7.5 billion funds for the construction of Yolanda rehabilitation centers and houses. The funds were rechanelled to help…
It was early morning of November 8, 2013, when their lives changed after Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) battered northern Cebu and the rest of the Visayas region. With the blink of an eye, what they…
Five years after Uncoordinated response, a lack of equipment, and a lack of able personnel. These were among the challenges faced by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) during its response to the havoc…
FIVE YEARS AFTER (Part 1 of a CDN special report on Super Typhoon Yolanda which hit the country on November 8, 2013) Five years after Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) made landfall on the 8th of November 2013,…
The Bureau of Customs in Central Visayas (BOC) has declared the abandonment of shipments of at least four container vans filled with relief goods for typhoon Yolanda victims. Elvira Cruz, customs district collector, said the consignees reportedly…
Bogo City — Juric Omaque and Khimberly Mahilom’s star-crossed love story began with text messages and a chance meeting at a restaurant in Mandaue City on Dec. 22, 2010. Omaque, a construction worker of Barangay Lamac, Pinamungajan…
THE Department of Trade and Industry is poised to “create new entrepreneurs” as it opens more Negosyo Centers (NCs) mostly in the northern part of Cebu before the end of 2017. From October to November, DTI-Cebu launched…
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