Text and photos by COOPER RESABAL LOON, Bohol. Three years after the October 15 earthquake that hit Bohol hard, some residents of this island province are still haunted by the sudden loss of their loved ones. Many, however, have picked up the pieces of their lives shattered by the powerful tremor, and have since focused
By COOPER RESABAL Jr. MARIBOJOC, Bohol—The new American ambassador to the Philippines captured the hearts of Boholanos in his first official visit on Thursday in the island province of Bohol, bringing school kits for pupils and teaching materials to teachers in an elementary school here, one of the most damaged towns in the 7.2 magnitude
Text and photos by COOPER RESABAL JR. MARIBOJOC, Bohol—Francisca Paderog, an entrepreneur in Barangay Toril of this town, has started reconstructing with mahogany wood her concrete house that totally collapsed when the 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck this island province in mid-October. “I need to do this. My family is getting sick from staying in the tent
