Climate-resilient Farming: Catbalogan’s Roadmap to Food Security
Find out more how Catbalogan City, nestled amid its rugged and mountainous landscape, is responding to rising climate risks that have disrupted harvests across Samar. Watch this video:
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Salcedo confronts stronger storms, its youth push for accountability
Salcedo's 2023 Municipal Resolution on Climate Accountability was the first in the Philippines to formally name major fossil fuel companies and recognize their contribution to climate risks experienced locally.
Tenor Arthur Espiritu’s inspiring journey to Llorente, Samar
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS TENOR Arthur Espiritu and his wife, Christina, are in Llorente, Eastern Samar to distribute the truckload of goods they have gathered from friends to the victims of typhoon Yolanda. Why Lorente? Llorente is one of the municipalities badly hit by Yolanda but has not been reported as prominently as Tacloban. Christina
Guiuan folks still struggle for their basic needs
Text and photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV GUIUAN, Eastern Samar- One week after typhoon Yolanda made its first landfall in this coastal town, residents are still in dire need of basic necessities like food, drinking water, fuel to cook their food and shelter. They are asking for assistance to repair their houses and to buy
Guiuan: first hit, almost leveled, late aid
Text and photos by JOSE BAYANI D. BAYLON IMMEDIATELY upon landing it became obvious to me that while there was a semblance of order, this was fragile because three days had passed and no relief had been delivered to Guiuan in Eastern Samar. Guiuan was the first to be hit by typhoon Yolanda Friday morning.
