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Tag: typhoon Yolanda

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    The elderly: Yolanda’s forgotten survivors

    Dec 27, 2013 12:40 AM

      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, […]

    COSE, HelpAge Internationl, typhoon Yolanda

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    Churchgoers attend Simbang Gabi in disaster-hit areas

    Dec 17, 2013 10:52 PM

    By VERA Files CHURCH bells rang as Filipinos marked the first day of Simbang Gabi on Monday. A time-honored Christmas tradition of the Catholic faithful, the devotees flocked to dawn masses as they do every December. It’s no different for churchgoers in the Visayas, despite having been stricken by two of the country’s worst natural […]

    cebu bohol earthquake, Haiyan, Simbang Gabi, typhoon Yolanda

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    Yolanda blew away Aetas’ alamid coffee beans

    Dec 04, 2013 7:49 PM

    By JONATHAN P. JURILLA AND HAZEL P. VILLA Photos by JONATHAN JURILLA BAROTAC VIEJO, Iloilo – Before typhoon Yolanda struck, the Aetas were looking forward to the ripening of their alamid coffee beans that they expect the civet cats  to eat so that in turn they would gather the cat’s precious feces to be processed […]

    Aetas, Alamid coffee, typhoon Yolanda

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    A hotline to a lifeline

    Dec 02, 2013 4:02 PM

      By NORMAN SISON Photos  from PILIPINAS 911 WITH wooden office tables for operating tables and flashlights for illumination, a team of American doctors worked feverishly as hundreds of wounded people streamed into a city hall that has been transformed into a makeshift hospital. They were en route to Mexico for a medical mission when […]

    Pilipinas 911, typhoon Yolanda

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    Tenor Arthur Espiritu’s inspiring journey to Llorente, Samar

    Nov 27, 2013 12:58 AM

      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 […]

    Arhtur Espiritu, Llorente, Samar, typhoon Yolanda

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    Yolanda victims in Iloilo complain of slow aid delivery

    Nov 20, 2013 10:17 PM

    By JULIE ANN MAE B. SILVEDERIO and HAZEL P. VILLA Photos by JULIE B. SILVEDERIO  AJUY, Northern Iloilo – Overshadowed by the devastation in Tacloban, Leyte, victims of Yolanda in this town complain of meager aid and difficulty in rebuilding their lives. “Sa may kabubut-on nga maghatag materyales sa amun, gapangayo kami tani bulig kay […]

    Ajuy, Iloilo, typhoon Yolanda

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    Ormoc survivor counts blessing

    Nov 20, 2013 5:36 AM

      By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY GIOLAGON IVY Onida was 3 years old when a flash flood swallowed her home in Ormoc City in 1991. Her father Nilo carried her and 1-year old sister Grace to the safety of a neighbor’s house before the deluge became unnavigable by foot. On Nov. 8, Ivy waited in Cebu for […]

    Ormoc, typhoon Yolanda

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    Antique after Yolanda: making both ends meet

    Nov 19, 2013 3:21 AM

      By ALEX C. DELOS SANTOS Photos from BANGON ANTIQUE FB and JUN TENS ANTIQUE province in the western side of Panay Island is one of the provinces in the Visayas that survived super typhoon site Yolanda/Haiyan. Reported casualties and deaths from this province had been minimal, the reason perhaps that media coverage has not […]

    Antique, typhoon Yolanda

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    Guiuan folks still struggle for their basic needs

    Nov 17, 2013 11:55 AM

    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, Samar, typhoon Yolanda

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    Yolanda survivors arrive in Villamor

    Nov 17, 2013 11:25 AM

    Text and photos by LITTLE WING LUNA VILLAMOR Air Base has become the first stop for Typhoon “Yolanda” victims fortunate enough to board the military’s C-130 planes from typhoon-ravaged Cebu and Tacloban. Friday was the third day that hundreds of hungry, weary and grieving souls landed at the Philippine Air Force hangar in Pasay City, […]

    Haiyan, typhoon Yolanda, Villamor Air Base, Yolanda

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