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After Sendong, kids find joy and comfort through art

Text and videos by DANIEL ABUNALES CAGAYAN DE ORO City – Come April, blackboards are clean, desks are well-arranged, classrooms are left empty. But not in a school in Balulang, a village some 7 kms away that is still reeling from a terrible tragedy. For five full days in April, the sound of drumbeats and

After Sendong, kids find joy and comfort through art

Life after Sendong

By ERWIN MASCARIÑAS
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – After the shock and the tears, people here and in Iligan City are starting to pick up the pieces and rebuild their lives two weeks after tropical storm Sendong ravaged their homes and their land. Lack of sufficient water supply, electricity and other basic necessities, did not stop the survivors of Sendong from moving on.

Life after Sendong

Surviving Sendong

BY ERWIN MASCARIÑAS
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Floodwaters brought by storm “Sendong” swept Cagayan de Oro and Iligan city and other parts of Central Mindanao while people were sleeping Friday night last week.

Surviving Sendong