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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.

Wiser and stronger after surviving typhoon Haiyan

Sex traffickers prey on ‘Yolanda’ children

Text and photos by AVIGAIL M. OLARTE TACLOBAN CITY – On the bed is where she could end it, she thought. She’s 16, he’s six months old. Alyssa (not her real name) was sold for sex one night last year. On board a docked ship in Leyte, in a locked room, a Japanese repeatedly raped

Sex traffickers prey on ‘Yolanda’ children