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The elderly: Yolanda’s forgotten survivors

  By ATTILA KULCSAR  and  VINCENT HENSON Photo by PETER CATON of  HelpAge International FRANCESCA Genemilo, 78, sits on a bench where her house once stood. She stares pensively at the ruins, clutching her blue umbrella, one of the few treasured possessions that supertyphoon “Yolanda” did not take from her. She lives in Barangay Bulak,

The elderly: Yolanda’s forgotten survivors