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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that foreign donations for Yolanda victims unaudited FALSE

By VERA Files | Dec 09, 2021 1:58 PM

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.

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Wiser and stronger after surviving typhoon Haiyan

By Luis Liwanag | Nov 25, 2021 1:22 PM

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.

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Commentary Editor's Pick

Time to hold Duterte accountable now

By Antonio Montalvan II | Nov 15, 2020 11:01 PM

Supertyphoon Yolanda battered Benigno Aquino III’s vaunted reputation before the world as a competent Philippine president.

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Manicani: A tough little island

Nov 19, 2014 11:31 PM

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 […]

Manicani, typhoon Yolanda

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New UNICEF Rep is a Balikbayan

Jun 24, 2014 10:07 PM

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 […]

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PH not doing badly at all in post- Yolanda rehab: Humanitarian groups

May 10, 2014 2:01 AM

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 […]

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Red Cross to build storm-resilient houses for Yolanda victims

May 07, 2014 11:52 AM

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, […]

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Arts & Culture

Child-friendly spaces for Yolanda survivors

Jan 13, 2014 8:37 PM

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 […]

Child-friendly Spaces, typhoon Yolanda

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Refugee life in Tacloban: the abnormal becomes normal

Jan 05, 2014 9:06 PM

By MITCH MENEZ Photos by LITTLE WING LUNA THERE is an inside joke amongst volunteer workers in Tacloban that one must wear long pants, rub one’s body with Off lotion and sleep inside the mosquito net. If not, you will be flown by those blood-sucking flies in mosquito land. The swarm of mosquitoes in […]

Tacloban, typhoon Yolanda

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Counting blessings despite Yolanda’s destruction

Dec 28, 2013 12:01 AM

Text and photos by DANIEL ABUNALES NAVAL, Biliran – Every year, residents from Talustusan, a community 20 minutes away from this town, gather on Christmas eve at their community center to welcome the birth of Christ. It was no different even after typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) hit the province over a month ago, […]

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