FACT CHECK: MAY MALI sa sinabi ni Panelo sa mga pabahay para sa Yolanda victims
May mali na sinabi ni Panelo na ang administrasyong Aquino ay nagtayo ng humigit-kumulang 160,000 pabahay para sa mga Yolanda victims.
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FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Marcos na ‘walang nagawa’ ang dalawang nakaraang admin para sa Yolanda rehab hindi totoo
Maling iginiit ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na "walang nagawa" sa nakalipas na dalawang administrasyon para i-rehabilitate ang mga lugar na sinalanta ng Super Typhoon Yolanda.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that foreign donations for Yolanda victims unaudited FALSE
Based on its 2014 report, COA created audit teams that focused on the sources and receipt of foreign aid, the release of local funds by the budget department and other offices, the inter-agency transfer of funds, procurement and logistics, and the distribution of goods and services.
Wiser and stronger after surviving typhoon Haiyan
Time has not erased from the mind of Nick and Doris “Chai” Quieta what happened on November 8, 2013. Nor has it healed the pain and suffering that typhoon Haiyan brought to their families and that of more than 7, 000 others who perished in that tragedy.
Time to hold Duterte accountable now
Supertyphoon Yolanda battered Benigno Aquino III’s vaunted reputation before the world as a competent Philippine president.
Manicani: A tough little island
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS Photos by ACE ESMERALDA and ELLEN TORDESILLAS MANICANI today hardly bears signs of the havoc wrought by supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) a year ago. Color is back on this 11.7-square-kilometer island of 3,000 people in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, which was a harrowing picture of destruction only 12 months
New UNICEF Rep is a Balikbayan
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FOR Lotta Sylwander, her assignment to the Philippines as UNICEF Representative, is actually a homecoming. Sylwander, from Sweden, was a backpack tourist way back in the 70’s and 80’s. She met and married (they are now divorced) someone from the Rojas family of Cavite. They have two children. Sylwander arrived
PH not doing badly at all in post- Yolanda rehab: Humanitarian groups
By APRIL ANNE BENJAMIN THE Aquino government, which is being criticized for the slow pace of rehabilitation of typhoon Yolanda-hit areas in the Visayas, has found defenders in international humanitarian organizations. At the opening of the Haiyan (the international name of Yolanda) exhibit at the AIM Conference Center 180 days after the super typhoon hit
Red Cross to build storm-resilient houses for Yolanda victims
By KIERSNERR GERWIN TACADENA AFTER typhoon Yolanda struck the Philippines last November, Jimmy Gagarino found himself, his wife and nine children living under a makeshift shelter with a tarpaulin for a roof. Gagarino, a fisherman from Eastern Samar, is one of 16 million people whose houses were destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda. Known internationally as Haiyan,
Child-friendly spaces for Yolanda survivors
By XANTHE KAMILLE ALMONGUERA and HAZEL P. VILLA Photos by XANTHE KAMILLE ALMONGUERA Where two months ago, children cowered in fear as typhoon Yolanda battered the fishing town of Estancia in the province of Iloilo, nowadays one hears singing and laughter. World Vision has set up Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) in Estancia, about 132
